Australian-based Herbert Geer has implemented the Smart Time intelligent time capture and time entry system from Smart WebParts at is Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane offices.
According to the firm's chief innovation officer Tom Haslam “Herbert Geer selected Smart Time because it is a cost effective solution with a very small internal technology impact. The product makes it quick and easy for our staff to complete their timesheets and capture their activity. Our initial report is that Smart Time is exceeding our expectations in terms of return on investment.”
By searching across servers (Exchange, BES, DMS) and phone systems, Smart Time provides Herbert Geer’s lawyers with an itemised journal of their daily work activities, enabling them to prepare complete and accurate timesheets. The Smart Time project at Herbert Geer was implemented by Smart WebParts partner Swerdlove.
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Tuesday, May 4
Herbert Geer roll out Smart WebParts via Swerdlove
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Charles Christian
on Tue 04 May 2010 23:00 BST
Thursday, April 29
Latest Asia-Pacific News Round-up
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 29 Apr 2010 20:00 BST
• 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" www.zylpha.com • 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. Wednesday, April 14
Duncan Cotterill becomes first NZ firm to use Recommind search
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Charles Christian
on Wed 14 Apr 2010 18:33 BST
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.” Comment: note the comment "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..." Thursday, March 18
Latest Asia-Pacific News Round-up
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Charles Christian
on Thu 18 Mar 2010 21:00 GMT
• Case management system win
Australian national law firm Thomson Playford Cutlers (TPC) has successfully piloted the latest version of the Caseflow Enterprise Product 8.6 for Will Creation in their Melbourne Office. The firm, which has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, has selected Caseflow’s Enterprise product for a 360 user, firmwide roll out in 2010. The next phase of the rollout – into the Mortgage Recoveries area – has already begun user acceptance testing. Tim Miller, TPC’s technology director said "The Workers Compensation department in our Melbourne office had been successfully using the Caseflow Desktop Client for several years and it made sense to explore the possible application of other parts of the product line throughout the firm. Caseflow Enterprise had the added advantage of its ability to integrate with our core systems (Aderant Expert, Outlook and Autonomy iManage). The Enterprise product provides us with the ability to automate documents directly from iManage and then seamlessly profiles and saves the resultant document back into the DMS. These factors together with the knowledge that Caseflow’s Enterprise product presented a commercially viable Clause Library were all key factors when making the ultimate decision to go with Caseflow." www.caseflow.com.au • New search technology partnership UK-based Solcara today announced a new business partnership with InfoXpert Pty Ltd of Australia. The partnership enables InfoXpert to licence and sell Solcara's market leading search technologies within the Australian and New Zealand (and also African) markets. Solcara's search technology – SolSearch – will be integrated with InfoXpert's own products and solutions to deliver an effective, reliable and scalable solution to the problems of enterprise search. Rob Martin, managing director at Solcara, said “Our two development teams are currently integrating Solcara SolSearch with InfoXpert’s eDRMS, ECM and Knowledge Management products and we look forward to offering users of these products an intuitive and comprehensive search solution. InfoXpert are well established in the Australian and New Zealand markets and with a distributor already established in South Africa we see significant opportunity for both businesses and look forward to a long term and successful partnership.” Trevor Dykstra, managing director, InfoXpert, added “Solcara’s search technology will enable InfoXpert customers to expand their content discovery with the ability to use a one-stop-shop to search across their existing information systems and online resources combined with the content located in their InfoXpert/KnowledgeXpert solution. The web based .NET technology utilised by Solcara complements the web based .NET technology used in our products. We are very impressed with the Solcara search technology and the benefits that result from this partnership to our customers!” www.solcara.com + www.infoexpert.com.au • TechShare visitors go away happy Finally, delegates attending last week's TechShare event in Sydney appear to have gone away happy. Swerdlove created TechShare event after identifying a gap in the market for a highly collaborative technical workshop for law industry staff. “Having been to many law technology conferences in the last few years it became clear that the focus was on showcasing new technology rather than discussing current experiences of technology” said Swerdlove director Derek Giles. Feedback from TechShare’s intensive day of workshops was positive, with all of the delegates gaining an insight from their peers and also from Keynote speakers Tom Jones (Iridium Technology), Luke Kean (Clayton Utz) and Jon Short (Moray & Agnew). www.swerdlove.com Monday, March 1
Asia-Pacific news round-up
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Charles Christian
on Mon 01 Mar 2010 22:00 GMT
More news from the Asia-Pacific region...
• New Zealand this week: Chris Auld, director of strategy & innovation at Intergen and David Blumentals, director CRM strategy for Client Profiles will discuss and demonstrate how client relationship management applications can support an overall knowledge management/client management strategy. The sessions take place in Wellington (Wednesday 3 March - starts 4:20pm) and Auckland (Thursday 4 March - starts 4:20pm). Both sessions end around 5:30. To register either email events@intergen.co.nz or call (04) 472 2021. For more info on Intergen and CRM4Legal visit www.intergen.co.nz/crm4legal • Swerdlove (www.swerdlove.com) has announced the implementation of its electronic payments system OpenEFT at Johnson Winter & Slattery – the firm won the BRW Best Australian Professional Service Firm (Revenue $20 Million to $100 Million) and Best South Australian Professional Services Firm awards. OpenEFT is an application that extends Aderant Expert, Keystone or Elite applications by providing electronic payment of vendor/employee invoices directly into their bank account, thus removing the need to print a cheque to be sent in the mail. Payment processing and notification of payment takes place in a single, rapid process. “We discovered that the continual, incremental cost of paying vendors by cheque was starting to affect our bottom line” said the firm's finance manager Anthony Bill. "The process of paying invoices using manually generated cheques and sending them via mail has been part of our standard processes for years. An extended list of outstanding cheques, combined with the creation and distribution costs made it an administrative encumbrance. When these costs started to affect the bottom line we sought the opinion of our practice management system vendor who suggested OpenEFT as a viable option. What once took hours every month is now only taking a few minutes.” • Finally, DocAuto has published a case study showing how Norton Rose Australia (previously Deacons Australia) has used DocAuto WorkSpace Manager (WSM) to help combine DMS databases from its multiple locations into a single, centralized system on its Autonomy iManage WorkSite platform. Click link to see a PDF of the case study.  1 AttachmentsFriday, February 26
Latest Asia-Pacific News Round-up
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Charles Christian
on Fri 26 Feb 2010 01:00 GMT
• 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. 1 AttachmentsWednesday, February 17
Asia-Pacific news - DocAuto roadshow in March
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Charles Christian
on Wed 17 Feb 2010 23:00 GMT
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 Wednesday, February 3
Asia-Pacific news round-up
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 03 Feb 2010 01:00 GMT
• 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. Friday, January 22
APAC news: Phoenix open for business in Sydney
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Charles Christian
on Fri 22 Jan 2010 01:00 GMT
Commented on his new role, David Carson said "We will initially be building on our knowledge management and document management expertise as well as assisting in the launch of the DTE Axiom Time Capture and the HighQ client extranet solutions, both within Australia and the wider APAC region" • The address for the new office is Level 3, 50 York Street, Sydney, phone +61 3 9024 5010. David Carson can be reached at david.carson@phoenixbs.com For more information visit www.phoenixbs.com Thursday, January 21
Winscribe to launch iPhone app ? Updated
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Charles Christian
on Thu 21 Jan 2010 11:59 GMT
We've just received confirmation this story is accurate and that the Winscribe system will apparently be the first fully integrated digital dictation workflow + iPhone product on the market. The release date will be during the first half of this year, the launch having been held back to accommodate a new version of the iPhone expected to be announced by Apple next week.
According to PC Dictation website in Australia, Winscribe is about to launch a full-feature digital dictation app for the iPhone. In yet another example of Winscribe's new product development plans being prematurely leaked onto the web (don't these people understand the internet?) the site says... The requests keep coming, when can I get an app for my iPhone? Early 2010 we will have a product by Winscribe. If you are interested please send us an email or call. www.pcdictation.com.au/upcoming-news/iphone-dictation/ |
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