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Swerdlove is holding its inaugural TechShare 2010 Workshop Forum in Sydney on Friday 12th March. Peter Connelley of Swerdlove says the "event provides a unique opportunity for law firm business system analysts to network with their law industry peers and gain insight into real world implementations of the latest advances in practice management technology".

The roundtable forum will be hosted by law technology consultant Derek Giles and include key speakers Tom Jones (Iridium Technology), Jon Short (Moray & Agnew) and Luke Kean (Clayton Utz). TechShare 2010 is targeted at practice systems administrators and other senior technical resources (those influencers at the coal face) of tier one and two law firms in Australia. The agenda includes: GoldenGate, DocuDraft, SQL 2008, Cloud Computing, Email Notification Systems, Data Dictionary, Cubes & Reporting Services, Basicscript coding, SQL 2008 using GL Data for Reporting from CMS, Development & Version Control
 
Further details can be found in the attached PDF document.
 
Following a successful 2009 year which saw a launch of their new Outlook based user interface and a strong sales year, Caseflow has partnered with Swerdlove as its New Zealand reseller  Swerdlove will join Caseflow in their venture across the Tasman in what is to be the first stage in their plans to take their successful Australian Case Management System to law firms in NZ, Canada and the US. “We caught up with Swerdlove Director Derek Giles at ILTA-09 and the discussions soon focused on both organisations expansion plans. It's a natural fit” said Paul Houghton, Vice President - Business Development for Caseflow.
 
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In conjunction with Office Information Australia, David Kiefer, President of DocAuto Inc, will be making several appearances in Australia and Asia in the month of March to give presentations on how you can use DocAuto solutions to add great value to your Autonomy iManage WorkSite environment.

These presentations will allow you to get an update on some of the cutting-edge techniques and concepts available to implement, maintain and optimize your matter-centric architecture in WorkSite. See specific tools and examples for matter publishing and hybridization, email management in a matter-centric environment, importing legacy or unmanaged content directly into Workspaces and reacting to events as they occur in WorkSite. See how the native WorkSite architecture can be used to combine and display data from multiple data sources, for client/matter movements, staff transfers and terminations, legal holds, customized views, security and much more. For more information, contact
Lori@docauto.com

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FTI Consulting Inc has announced the launch of a new state-of-the-art data centre in Australia for the secure and scalable hosting of data needed for legal, regulatory or investigative matters. No matter the jurisdiction, the new data centre offers Australian companies, government agencies and those managing e-discovery matters in Asia with access to the Ringtail Legal secure document review and case management platform. 
“The data centre breaks new ground in the Asia Pacific region for its support for large-scale litigations and investigations,” said David Bowie, managing director of FTI Technology in Australia. “With global capacity and full-service Ringtail offerings, FTI sets the standard for easing the complexity and lowering the overall cost of e-discovery for our Asia Pacific and global clients.”

LexisNexis Australia has unveiled a new web application – called Mobile Case Search – offering a full legal case search from mobile devices for the first time. The free service offered by LexisNexis may be used by anyone who is interested in searching for cases from their internet-enabled mobile phone. TJ Viljoen, CEO of LexisNexis Pacific, said, “In today’s fast-paced corporate world, our clients increasingly conduct legal research on-the-go. Mobile Case Search enables access to cases when our clients are out of the office or meeting with a client. This service demonstrates LexisNexis’ commitment to integrating leading-edge technology with our legal information to ensure lawyers are always one step ahead.”
 
Mobile Case Search offers users access to content from Unreported Judgments, which is derived from the High Court of Australia, Federal Court, Supreme Courts of all Australian states and territories, Family Court of Australia, Land & Environment (NSW), Takeovers Panel, Federal Magistrates Court, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, District Court NSW (selected cases) and District Court WA (selected cases). The content is updated frequently, with most High and Supreme Court cases added within 24 hours and most District Court cases within 92 hours. LexisNexis also plans to extend the content offering to encompass legislation in 2010. To start using the web application or for more information visit www.lexisnexis.com.au/mobilesearch

LEAP Legal Software, a provider of practice management software to small law firms in Australia, has announced the appointment of Stephen Wood to the position of managing director of LEAP Searching. In this position Wood is based in Sydney and will oversee development and enhancement of the product line and drive the growth of the division through developing new strategic initiatives for the business. Wood was most recently general manager - business solutions for ICT service provider Alphawest.