Communications, IT resilience, speed and availability are all critical for compliance, risk management, efficiencies, management information and communication with clients. Hosted IT in various versions of "the cloud" are now entirely feasible and realistic with lawyers and legal practices in the UK making good use of these services.
More and more firms are seeing the benefit in outsourcing (hosted IT, managed IT, the cloud) for all or part of their IT infrastructure (and other non-core areas of their business). They can then focus internal resource to get the best out of the applications being used to support the business and its relationships with clients and prospects. Options are well worth investigating now, so this is a review of the range of options available to lawyers and legal practices of all sizes.
IT outsourcing topics include:
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An Introduction to managed and hosted IT; still very new to most lawyers and legal practices
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UK Examples & Case Studies of legal practices in the UK
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Implications for Legal Practices - benefits and risks
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Why explore new (managed and hosted) IT support options?
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Managed IT Services Options in the real world - hosted IT, managed, "the cloud"
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Conclusions
