Virtual data rooms provide a secure collaboration and document sharing platform that consolidate documents into a centralised repository and facilitates their efficient management.

Back in the day, when I entered the legal profession, an age of the Telex and elephantine batteries operating mobile phones, most articled clerks, as they then were, eyed achieving equity status. That was expected.

There is little clarity presently on ‘how’ Brexit will take place – and law firms, many of whom are involved in cross-border activities – need to be prepared.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has consistently said to law firms that, if they don’t want to change with the introduction of SQE, they don’t have to. That, of course, is true, but it rather misses the point.

From memos, letters and emails, through to contracts and court forms – lawyers’ daily lives revolve around compiling documents. The more streamlined and intuitive this process is, the better.