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Zylpha expands into Australia
Zylpha have teamed up with former managing director of Visualfiles Australia (LexisNexis), Bevan Read to re-sell the DocBinder document bundling solution in Australia. Read will also be continuing in his advisory role with Justin North’s Janders Dean group, specialising in case management and workflow systems for the legal sector. According to Read "As a former solicitor, I could appreciate the value of this software the first time I saw it. Simple to implement; easy to use; and it makes massive improvements to a very real, everyday task inside all legal practices"
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Allen & Gledhill win for Elite
Allen & Gledhill, one of the oldest and most influential law firms in South East Asia, has signed with Elite 3E. After a lengthy review process, firm, Allen & Gledhill determined that 3E was the best option. The selection process was open and despite competition from Aderant and internal momentum to update their existing Elite Enterprise platform, the 3E solution prevailed. Based in Singapore with more than 300 lawyers, the firm has received numerous accolades and awards from respected legal publications and directories. It is the only law firm in Singapore that is consistently ranked at the top of the league tables for every major area of its practice.

Phoenix & Janders Dean Breakfast Briefing - Sydney, Australia
Justin North of Jander Dean reports that a lot of interest has been expressed in the Phoenix Business Solutions and Janders Dean International breakfast briefing around Alternative Billing to be held in Sydney at Becasse on May 18th. Representatives from in-house counsel at Telstra and Westpac will be joined by CFO and CEO level attendees from law firms including Blake Dawson, Clayton Utz, Freehills, Gilbert+Tobin, Minter Ellison, Sparke Helmore, Norton Rose, DLA Phillips Fox, Baker McKenzie and numerous others to discuss the trends and issues surrounding this area.
View Article  Duncan Cotterill becomes first NZ firm to use Recommind search
Recommind today announced that top 10 New Zealand law firm Duncan Cotterill has implemented MindServer Search to provide a single search platform across its five offices in New Zealand and Australia. MindServer Search combines concept-based search technology with a simple user interface to provide highly accurate results that are tailored to the information requirements of the firm and its users. Duncan Cotterill’s deployment of MindServer Search provides its lawyers and support staff with quick and seamless access to all their office-based file stores.

“The implementation of MindServer Search has been key to improving firm-wide information access and increasing productivity of our busy lawyers and support staff. Choosing MindServer Search has enabled us to maintain our ‘home-grown’ document management solution without the need to make significant investments in a mainstream document management system, at a time when the future of such packages seems very uncertain,” said Richard Swatton, knowledge manager at Duncan Cotterill.  “Furthermore, by investing in MindServer Search, the firm has implemented a search platform that offers far more than just document retrieval. This gives us a very sound foundation for both our current and future search requirements.”

Upcoming phases of implementation include adding the firm’s intranet and other internal document repositories to the search environment and deploying MindServer’s unique Matters & Expertise module to track relevant staff experience and prior projects.

“We are very pleased to welcome Duncan Cotterill to Recommind’s fast-growing international client community as it deploys MindServer Search across the practice,” said Grant Watt, channel director for Recommind.  “We are excited to expand MindServer Search into New Zealand, and we look forward to commencing more projects in the region in the near future.”

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Choosing MindServer Search has enabled us to maintain our ‘home-grown’ document management solution without the need to make significant investments in a mainstream document management system, at a time when the future of such packages seems very uncertain..."