Scottish legal firms are "behind the curve" in the transition to cloud-based and mobile technologies and have some way to go before achieving paperless status.
Core-Asset Consulting's sixth Annual Salary Guide also highlighted that the other main challenge for legal firms and in-house lawyers will be identifying and retaining the best talent, while progressing diversity agendas, given an "exceptionally limited and tight candidate pool".
One result of this shortage has seen significant salary uplifts, with even newly-qualified candidates being offered significantly higher basic salaries, exemplified by Pinsent Mason’s recent 35% increase in entry level salaries. In turn, this is making it increasingly challenging to fill in-house legal vacancies.
