Tom Jones has left his position at Aderant to launch Iridium Technology, a consulting firm focused specifically on business intelligence (BI) for law firms. Jones has worked with Aderant Expert’s BI applications for over 13 years, including Expert Analytics Foundation and Expert Profitability. His roles have included Developer/Architect, Development Manager, Product Manager, and Director of Product Marketing.
“Firms are eager to find a consultant specifically focused on how to get the most out of Aderant’s business intelligence applications,” said Jones. “Having worked for Aderant as the Product Champion for their Business Intelligence products for 13 years, I saw this as a great opportunity to get back into consulting. I have the combination of product knowledge and technical skills to assure that firms can successfully implement Aderant’s BI products. Additionally, I am probably the only consultant in the world who is both experienced with Aderant’s BI products and certified as a Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Business Intelligence Developer".
Iridium has already signed up three UK law firms as members of the Expert Analytics Initiative – a coalition of firms that is using Iridium as a shared resource to simultaneously move all of their Aderant Expert business intelligence implementations forward. “This is a very exciting initiative,” says Jones. “The member firms are able to share the costs for customizations, training, new reports and new web parts. Plus they have access to a consultant that is living and breathing business intelligence applications 50+ hours per week. I am discussions with additional firms in all regions and hope to have six or more firms participating going forward”.
• Prior to joining Aderant, Jones co-founded Icon Technology, a
consulting and BI software firm based in San Francisco. Icon developed
the original versions of the Aderant business intelligence applications
and successfully marketed them for several years before being purchased
by Barrister Information Systems in 1998. Barrister was acquired by
Keystone, who were acquired by Solution 6 and subsequently merged into
Aderant.
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Friday, January 29
Tom Jones leaves Aderant to form business intelligence consultancy
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 29 Jan 2010 14:05 GMT
Thursday, January 28
CT TyMetrix identify 10 trends for US legal IT in 2010
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 28 Jan 2010 14:36 GMT
US company CT TyMetrix, part of the CT/Wolters Kluwer business – and a provider of web-based legal management solutions for corporate law departments and claims organizations – has identified what it sees as the key trends that will impact the legal industry in 2010.
They say "The business side of the legal industry has reached a turning point. Technology has enabled corporate law departments to take more control over critical processes but it is up to them to optimally utilize these tools in a way that is best suited to meet their unique needs. Corporate law departments have the power to more effectively analyze data and control legal spend using technology-enabled tools such as predictive modeling, business intelligence (BI) and alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). The convergence of various factors, including market globalization, changing regulatory landscapes and availability of specialized technology solutions, will enable the widespread adoption of these tools in 2010." CT TyMetrix identify 10 specific trends... • The Rise of the Corporate Law Department: The down economy has shifted the balance of power from large law firms to corporate legal departments. In 2010, corporate law departments will assert more control over billing. There will be a heightened demand for “tools of empowerment” that provide them with the knowledge, transparency and real-time technology to take control. (Autonomy made a similar prediction in its announcements yesterday.) • The Re-Tooling of Big Law: In addition to some big-time law firms failing in 2010, there will be increasing pressure to allow the incorporation of legal services within corporate entities. This is already happening in the UK with the Legal Services Act and the trend is likely to become prominent in the US as well. This fundamental change in the structure of the legal service delivery industry will accelerate the adoption of new models that incorporate legal process outsourcing. • Globalization of Corporate Law: Corporate law departments will start to leverage systems and knowledge across the world. In the past, the practice of law has been global, while the business side of it has not. This trend will be accelerated by the implementation of cloud computing within the legal community. The adoption of single standards for the transmission of electronic documents within EU countries will also drive this trend. • Acceptance of BI and Predictive Modeling: 2010 will be the year in which corporate legal departments truly tap into the wealth of data available to them. In addition to billions of dollars of legal invoice data and hundreds of thousands of matter management records, corporate law departments can now access the record systems of their entire enterprise. • Unified Platform Management: Law departments and law firms will begin buying into next-generation management platforms that enable all of their key solutions to collaborate on a single platform, which will be global, open and highly intuitive. • Adoption of New AFAs: Law departments will fully buy into AFAs as they come to realize there is no more effective way for them to predict and control outside counsel costs than devising and enforcing alternatives to the billable hour. The primary type of AFA will be flat fees and merit arrangements. (Richard Susskind writes about this in today's Times newspaper.) • Convergence 2.0: A more efficient method of convergence will come to prominence in 2010. Companies will increase the amount of work assigned to law firms who provide the highest quality work with billing models that are most closely aligned with corporate law departments’ objectives. (This is echoes Autonomy's comments about 'chaining') Wednesday, January 27
SmartWebParts launches webinar series
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Charles Christian
on Wed 27 Jan 2010 01:00 GMT
Smart WebParts has launched its Expert Webinar Series on Law Firm Timekeeping. Each
30-minute webinar in the series will feature legal technology industry experts discussing challenges and solutions to improve law firm timekeeping practices and profitability.
Now available on the Smart WebParts site – at www.smart-webparts.com/expert.html – the series’ first installment examines the state of timekeeping in law firms from the user, economic and technology perspectives. Ever since the billable hour became the key metric for billing, lawyers and their firms have grappled with the reality that a great deal of billable time goes unbooked, for a variety of reasons ranging from human behavior to technology limitations. This unbilled time adds up and the firm inevitably leaves many hours and dollars on the table. The first episode features Jo Haraf of San Francisco’s Haraf Professional Services and contributing author of Achieving Excellence in Legal Technology Management (West, 2009), Michael Kraft of New York City’s IT consulting firm Kraft Kennedy and David Gallagher of London's Saturn27 consultancy. Monday, January 25
Arnold & Porter launches iPhone App
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Charles Christian
on Mon 25 Jan 2010 15:52 GMT
US law firm Arnold & Porter LLP has launched its first smartphone application. The iPhone app provides clients and interested readers a unique way to access the reporting and analysis created by the firm's multi-disciplinary consumer protection & advertising practice group, including its Consumer Advertising Law Blog. As far as we know, Arnold & Porter is the only AmLaw 100 law firms to offer a mobile or iPhone application. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can download the application by following (cut & paste into your browser) this iTunes link... http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?=id=3D343353425&mt=3D8
Tuesday, January 19
Former Elite VP Dan Tacone joins IntApp as president
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Charles Christian
on Tue 19 Jan 2010 12:49 GMT
IntApp* has just announced that Dan Tacone has joined the company as its new president. We last encountered Tacone at Elite user conference in Las Vegas three years ago, when he was the company's senior VP & general manager. He remained in this position until March 2009, when he moved into another role within the Thomson Reuters Legal Business.
IntApp has also expanded its team in the UK with the recruitment of James Miller, previously a project manager with Bighand. Miller will be working on implementation and related projects for IntApp's growing UK customer base. * IntApp provide a portfolio of a software products that connect and centrally manage legal applications to increase attorney billability, ensure client confidentiality and maximize staff productivity. Monday, January 18
January issue of American Legal Technology Insider out now
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Charles Christian
on Mon 18 Jan 2010 16:09 GMT
The January issue (No.18) of American Legal Technology Insider is out now. To access this issue click on the PDF attachment below.
The top stories this month include the fact despite the enormous hype surrounding technologies such as Twitter, RSS, Facebook and blogging, their take-up by large US law firms has not been as widespread as might have been expected. Data compiled by My Corporate Resource.com (there was a mid-December cut-off) reveals that of the AmLaw 100 firms: 39% have active blogs, 34% were running RSS feeds, 29% were regularly tweeting on Twitter and just 12% had a presence on Facebook. Of the AmLaw 100 firms, the earliest any of them had been on Twitter was October 2008 (Weil Gotshal) and five had only started tweeting in Q4 2009. Patton Boggs had the largest number of followers (1336), while 13 firms had less than 200 followers.  1 AttachmentsThursday, January 14
January issue of American Insider running late
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Charles Christian
on Thu 14 Jan 2010 17:00 GMT
Due to logistical problems (editor sick as a parrot) the January issue of American Legal Technology Insider will not be published until Monday 18 January. Apologies all round.
Monday, January 4
Baker Mack go with SAP in biggest deal ever?
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Charles Christian
on Mon 04 Jan 2010 14:37 GMT
Although a formal announcement has still to be made, Orange Rag resources report that on New Year's Eve, the global mega-firm Baker & McKenzie finally put ink on the contracts to buy and implement SAP systems as the firm's new ERP and practice management platform. Baker Mack, currently an Elite Enterprise site, will be rolling out the TCS LMS (Legal Management Solution) template for SAP, with Deloittes rumoured to be the implementation partner. As well as being the biggest SAP legal market order to-date, it is expected that the SAP/Baker & McKenzie order will also become the largest legal IT market implementation ever.
Elsewhere in the SAPosphere... Shoosmiths – who selected a SAP + TCS LMS platform last year, are going live later this month with their implementation of the SAP CRM system. (The firm is currently an Interaction user.) And, Holman Fenwick – whose SAP + Intalec implementation ground to a half a couple of years ago – is reported to be reviewing the market again, with a short list of SAP/TCS, Elite 3E and Aderant Expert. Peter Owen has been providing the firm with consultancy services.
Winscribe's global marketing head quits
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Charles Christian
on Mon 04 Jan 2010 10:42 GMT
This message appeared in out email in-box this morning (UK time)...
Dear Respected Colleagues and Friends, Effective immediately, I am no longer employed by WinScribe. I resigned my position in order to pursue new endeavors. I have greatly appreciated the opportunity to work with and learn from each and every one of you. Please contact Richard McLean, Chairman, for any needs you may have. He will direct you to the appropriate point of contact within WinScribe to assist you with your needs. I wish you all the best and much success in the New Year! Sincerely, Amy Clevidence Global Marketing Operations Manager WinScribe Comment: Amy's departure from Winscribe should not be under-estimated as she was (in our experience) the only person in an organisation that operates globally to have any real understanding of marketing and media relations – and to also appreciate that the company needed to seriously raise its marketing game if it was to ever compete with Bighand. For example, despite the fact there are more Winscribe digital dictation users out there (globally, we're not talking law offices only) and that Winscribe was frequently first to the market with products and innovations (the renewed interest in speech recognition technology being the latest example) it was continually out-spun by Bighand and left looking like the also-ran. |
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