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Reduce Microsoft 365 Licensing Costs Before Your Next Renewal
Are we overpaying for Microsoft 365 and how would we even know? It’s a question more IT and business leaders are asking as Microsoft 365 pricing continues to evolve. With upcoming pricing changes in 2026, many organizations expect costs to rise. But in [...]
Is It Worth the Money? The Real ROI of AI in 2026
Every leadership team is asking the same question right now Are we actually getting value from AI or just increasing our spend? Over the past two years, organizations have moved quickly from experimentation to deployment. Tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot [...]
Skills in Copilot in SharePoint for Regulated Industries
Part 3 of a series on Skills in Copilot in SharePoint. Start with Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills or read Getting Started with Skills. Picture this: it's 9:08 a.m., and a team inbox lights up with a request that sounds simple. "Please provide all records related to X." In reality, it triggers a [...]
Getting Started with Skills in SharePoint: What a Real Implementation Looks Like
Part 2 of a series on Copilot in SharePoint Skills. If you're new to Skills, start with Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills. In Part 1 of this series, we covered what Skills can do. The response we heard most after that post was some version of: "This sounds [...]
Webinar Recap – Is Microsoft 365 E7 Worth It?
Microsoft 365 licensing has changed and this time, it's not just a pricing update. In our recent webinar, we explored a question that's now landing on the desks of IT leaders, security teams, finance, and procurement simultaneously: Is Microsoft 365 E7 actually worth it? [...]
Agents Are Users. It’s Time to Secure Them Like One.
Are AI agents in Microsoft 365 treated like users? Yes and they must be managed as such. In the Microsoft 365 environment, AI agents independently access data, trigger workflows, and make decisions. Microsoft Agent 365 provides the centralized control plane to govern, monitor, and [...]
Beyond the Chatbot: How Law Firms Can Build AI That Actually Understands Their Work
Most law firms have experimented with AI by now. A chatbot here, a drafting assistant there. But there is a significant gap between using AI as a novelty and deploying it as a genuine capability, one that understands your firm's matters, documents, workflows, and compliance [...]
See the Whole Firm: Using Power BI to Drive Better Legal Decisions
Every day, your firm generates a wealth of data. From matter progress and billable hours to client activity and financial performance. The challenge isn't accessing this data. It's turning those bits of fragmented information into something your leadership can act on. Most firms are still [...]
Creating Practical Legal Apps with Power Apps
We understand legal teams face growing caseloads and tighter budgets, yet still must deliver consistent results. Many legal departments know their processes need work. What slows progress isn’t lack of ideas; it’s the time, cost, and complexity associated with building software. This is where Microsoft [...]
Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills: Teaching AI in SharePoint to Work the Way You Do
Here's a challenge most organizations quietly wrestle with: AI tools are generic by design. They respond well to broad questions but struggle with the specifics that make your organization tick such as your naming conventions, your review processes, the way your team builds a [...]
Your Clients Deserve A Better Portal
Every client knows this well: they send an email asking for a status update on their matter, wait two days, only to receive a five-line reply that answers half their question. They call the front desk. They leave a voicemail. They follow up again [...]
Webinar Recap – AI-Assisted Legal Workflows: Practical Automation for Legal Teams
How can legal teams automate workflows using Copilot and Power Automate? Legal teams today are under increasing pressure to move faster, manage growing workloads, and maintain accuracy all without scaling headcount at the same pace. In our recent webinar, we explored how organizations can [...]
Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 vs E7: Which is the right plan for your business?
With the release of Microsoft 365 E7 coming to the general public May 1, 2026, it’s time for businesses to consider which plan is the best for them. Each enterprise tier has its own features and strengths, and we’ll dive into each one. What's included in Microsoft 365 E3? [...]
How Vibe Coding in the Power Platform Is Challenging Legal SaaS
Goodbye iManage? That question may sound dramatic, but it is becoming harder for law firms to ignore. Vibe coding lowers the cost of experimentation in legal technology. For firms that are already investing in Microsoft 365, this shift is less about replacing vendors and [...]
SharePoint vs iManage: Legal Document Management in 2026
Changing a legal document management system isn’t a simple matter. An uninformed decision risks problems like confidentiality breaches, ethical wall failures, retention gaps, and audit issues – or a combination of any or all of these. The consequences, therefore, are serious. However, legal document management is a key part of: Where legal professionals [...]
Microsoft 365 E7 Licensing: Big Shift Towards AI as a Core Enterprise Platform
Early this year, Microsoft signaled a potential Microsoft 365 E7 licensing tier. For years, enterprise customers have speculated whether an E7 plan would follow E5, especially as Microsoft continues layering separately priced capability onto existing plans. Initially, the idea seemed unlikely. The January 2026 episode of Directions [...]
Webinar Recap – Governance in the Age of AI: Building Trust and Readiness for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming how organizations write‚ analyze‚ and collaborate with Word‚ Outlook‚ Teams‚ SharePoint‚ and OneDrive․ With AI in the flow of work‚ leaders are asking an important question: Is our Microsoft 365 environment ready to support AI responsibly, and can we [...]
Copilot for Legal: Protecting Confidentiality While Boosting Productivity
Most managing partners, general counsel, and legal operations leaders aren’t asking whether AI is powerful. They already know it is. The real concern is simpler and more serious: Can we use AI without putting client confidentiality, ethical walls, or professional responsibility at risk? In [...]
How Law Firms Can Maximize Hourly Billing Efficiency with AI
Hourly billing has long been the financial foundation of legal practices. It reflects expertise, accountability, and the value of a lawyer’s judgment. But beneath that structure lies a deeper challenge; lawyers are working more than ever, yet billing less than they’d expect for the effort they put. The problem isn’t competence or commitment, it’s the mounting [...]
Automate the Mundane: Power Platform Use Cases for Law Firms
Legal professionals didn’t choose this profession to chase approvals, rename files, or manually update matter logs. Yet in many law firms, highly skilled lawyers and legal operations teams still spend hours every week on repetitive, low-value tasks. Intake emails are copied into spreadsheets. Engagement [...]
