The legal sector is set to benefit from a new supplier initiative announced today.
Calico Legal Solutions Group is a unique collaboration of established and trusted suppliers, selected and managed by well-regarded legal sector specialist, Pauline Freegard MBA.
Drawing on two decades of working with UK law firms and long-term C-level relationships with key technology and service suppliers, Pauline has developed Calico to help SME law firms and vendors to connect and collaborate more easily and effectively. Calico is being pitched as the go-to portal for law firms to find and connect with trusted suppliers for every service a law firm will need to access – from legal IT applications to telephony and marketing services.
Calico also showcases New Solutions – a wide range of ‘just come to market’ technology solutions, different delivery options and new services that can struggle for visibility amongst their target audience. These might be firm wide, tactical or even point solutions to make a real difference to a particular legal discipline – all can add real competitive edge and solve business issues. The portal also offers firms a quick and easy way to find Experts in their field, with that crucial understanding of legal services.
Experts cover topics such as law firm mergers, HR, marketing, digital strategy, property data services, scanning and paper-less working strategy to name just a few. To add value to all its law firm customers and legal contacts – a very significant market share, Calico will also produce a knowledge-led regular Journal drawing upon the deep subject area expertise of the member suppliers. The Journal’s aim is to become essential reading for any well-informed law firm Partner, manager or business professional, with the onus on a broad spread of educational, relevant and informative content, and no salesbased advertorial or PR puff. The founding members of Calico are committed to working together to bring the best solutions to market, meeting regularly to develop Calico, share best practice and collaborate in order to drive innovation.
Calico is officially launching on the 25th July with a free evening event in central Manchester. All the Calico members will be there and it will be a great networking opportunity, not to mention a lovely venue for a few drinks on a summer’s evening. Partners and managers working within legal services are very welcome to attend. Register here. And if you needed any extra incentive, Calico will be randomly choosing from the guests on 25th July a winner of a much-admired ReMarkable tablet worth £600 that every lawyer seems to want very much (Pauline reports from her recent meetings!).