Embarking on a big new project as a business owner or executive can be a time of both great excitement and growth, as you set your eye to the future and all the opportunities our global economy offers. However, it goes without saying every big project comes with potentially big challenges, not least the legalities […]
Data is the “black gold” of the 21st century, to use a term that once commonly described the valuable 20th century commodity oil. However, unlike oil data is found everywhere and is certainly not a scarce commodity! It courses through the vast networks of our digital communications systems, forming the lifeblood of our knowledge economy. […]
Article written by Jerome Doraisamy for Lawyers Weekly Alifery CEO Louise Hvala – whose new platform helps connect and facilitate all stages of the client-legal freelancer relationship – said that on the client side, companies, law firms and in-house legal teams want immediate access to freelance legal experts when the need arises. “We are in […]
Like death and taxes, the billable hour has lone been the one big certainty faced by legal professionals as long as anyone can remember. Whilst charging clients for the service we provide as measured on an hourly basis may appear to be a straightforward and foolproof way of earning an income — as it protects […]
As the labour market undergoes big shifts, driven by rapid advances in digital technology and the changing nature of the global economy itself, more businesses and organisations are finding themselves reliant on a contingent and freelance workforce. Another name for the “gig economy”, a ‘contingent workforce’ consists of freelancing professionals and independent contractors who are […]
The traditional career paths of being a lawyer is changing and technology is certainly taking over the process driven work, but what we sometimes forget is that technology will never be able to take over the hardest to access resource in the world — the knowledge and expertise that lives within a human mind. We […]