In the current financial climate, many law firms, along with businesses in most other commercial sectors, are coming under pressure to reduce their IT expenditure, both on staff and IT procurement, in a bid to satisfy the partnership’s need to control costs.

It is clear that law firms will continue to invest significant sums of money in technology, but as recent surveys on investment trends indicate, the focus is increasingly on maximising the return on investment. The key question therefore becomes ‘where do we need to invest?’