Being present at the office every day, drafting agreements, dictating into dictaphones with secretaries then transcribing dictation only for the lawyer to further review the draft, meeting face to face with clients, manually reviewing contracts – how lawyers work has not really changed through the last decades. Even though the use of digital solutions by […]
Have we gone full circle with custom software development? For some years now, companies have pivoted to taking on standard software and configuring it to meet their requirements because of the number of failures in custom software development projects. To a certain extent, this was a compromise. It was a way of successfully getting the […]
Obi and I are often asked what made us decide to set up a law firm. It was not as if our experience ticked all the boxes. We were not from private practice, we did not have a list of existing clients who would follow us. We were in-house lawyers, who worked for technology companies […]
Part 2 of our series on Statement of Works, which covers post-contract activities. In our previous blog entitled “Statement of Works Part 1 – Drafting Tips” we looked at the key requirements for an effective Statement of Works (“SOW”). In this blog we explore some of the post contract activities the parties should undertake to […]
Statement of Works (“SOW”) are often used as part of master technology service agreements to describe the scope of services to be provided by a supplier and to fix the price for those services. However the parties to the contract often fail to clearly describe the services to be provided, or the timescales for service […]
The introduction of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, otherwise known as GDPR (“the Regulations”) has resulted in significant changes to the UK and European data protection landscape. As businesses large and small consider the practical and operational implications of these changes, an interesting aspect might be the relationship between the providers of cloud services and their clients. […]
Blockchain or distributed ledger technology, has the power (its supporters say) to transform the processes traditionally used by banks, power supply companies and logistics providers to name but a few. In fact, the technology is potentially suitable for any business process which operates in a pre-arranged, methodical and organised basis. Transacting in real estate and […]