The stock exchange-quoted* Australian law firm Slater & Gordon has signed-up to replace its legacy** digital dictation system with BigHand 4 voice productivity technology. The switch takes the number of Top-25 law firms who utilise BigHand technology across Australia and New Zealand to 17 (68%).
Sean Stephens, National Sales Manager at BigHand, said "We are delighted Slater & Gordon has moved to use the latest BigHand platform as we believe version 4 is a significant leap forward in terms of the impact it can have on the dictation and document production process."
Slater & Gordon General Manager of IT Jonathan Pangrazio, added "The latest BigHand edition is very impressive and having spoken to many of their existing legal clients it is clear their technical expertise, project management and support has a first-class reputation. We now look forward to them delivering on that standing."
* Since May 2007 Slater & Gordon Limited shares have been listed on the
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and trade under the code SGH.
** According to Orange Rag data, the firm's legacy DDS was Winscribe.
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Tuesday, September 13
APAC news: Slater & Gordon in digital dictation swapout
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Charles Christian
on Tue 13 Sep 2011 23:57 BST
Tuesday, August 30
Hong Kong law firms buys into Elite 3E vision
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 30 Aug 2011 00:00 BST
Elite, part of Thomson Reuters, today announced that ONC Lawyers has selected ELITE 3E as its financial and practice management platform. ONC* is one of the largest locally based law firms in Hong Kong.
“Our current business systems involve a number of out-dated 90s era technology platforms that are no longer fit for purpose. We were looking for a long-term solution that would bring us to the forefront of industry technology and best practices,” said Ann Chung, ONC’s general manager. “We needed a modern platform that would address our needs today, and also position us for future growth. 3E will enable the firms to be agile as we meet the increasingly complex requirements of our growing client base. 3E’s highly customisable platform, the ability to embed our business rules directly into the application and powerful reporting and business intelligence capabilities were critical in our decision to implement the solution.” Kim Massana, president of Elite, welcomed ONC to Elite’s growing client base in Asia. "We are very pleased to see continued interest in our solutions across the Asia Pacific region. The comprehensive multi-currency and multi-language capabilities of 3E positions it as the premier choice for firms that are expanding into new regions that deal with multiple languages and jurisdictional requirements. ONC will experience immediate returns on their investment in 3E with increased efficiency and productivity.” * Established in 1992 ONC Lawyers is one of the largest local Hong Kong law firms with more than 90 members of legally qualified and supporting staff. ONC is a full service law firm offering whole of business legal solutions to local and international firms. Thursday, August 11
APAC News: Mallesons selects Intralinks
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 11 Aug 2011 05:00 BST
IntraLinks, a provider of critical information exchange solutions, today announced that Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Mallesons), a leading law firm in the Asian region, has selected IntraLinks to provide a Software-as-a-Service platform for all M&A advisory work with its clients. The IntraLinks Software-as-a-Service solution will enable the firm to continue to organise, manage, track and securely share its critical information inside and outside the firewall for all legal and due diligence activities.
“Having secure access to applications and data from a range of devices on complex and confidential matters is critical, for our lawyers and our clients,” said Michelle Mahoney, Director, Applied Legal Technology at Mallesons. “On some matters we have over 100 lawyers across multiple geographies working on thousands of documents and pieces of information. We wanted to move from being good in this space, to being exceptional. And within this, we wanted to realise tangible benefits for our clients. IntraLinks’ Software-as-a-Service platform provides us with a truly world-class system and is part and parcel of the firm’s commitment to providing innovative solutions to clients”. With IntraLinks, Mallesons expects to reduce processing times and reduce operational costs while improving client service and providing their lawyers with a simple, fast and easy solution. “IntraLinks offers law firms a powerful tool to better manage complex document sets, reduce inefficiencies and costs, collaborate with external parties and improve client relationships,” said Martin Vodden, general manager, Australia and New Zealand, IntraLinks. “This agreement marks a hugely influential law firm in the Asian region moving its practice from an internal software system to an external secure Software-as-a-Service platform, signifying a major shift in how law firms will operate in the future.” Comment: Cutting through some of the marketing hype, Vodden is right, the trend for moving from inhouse systems to hosted SaaS is gaining momentum in the the legal sector. It may not have quite reached the tipping point of becoming the new paradigm but it's on its way there. Monday, August 8
Thomson Reuters special: another acquisition + another Elite 3E win
by
Charles Christian
on Mon 08 Aug 2011 21:13 BST
Last month was a busy time for Thomson Reuters on the acquisitions front and this month seems is no different. The latest deal to be announced is the acquisition of the Scottish*-based case management and workflow software provider Flosuite Legal Solutions, whose systems are in use with law firms in the UK, Australia, Canada and the Cayman Islands. Thomson Reuters say Flosuite will be ‘aligned’ with the groups Legal UK & Ireland business and will “accelerate TR’s move into software and productivity solutions for the UK legal market.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Elsewhere on Planet TR, Elite has reported that Minter Ellison, one of the largest law firms in the Asia-Pacific region, has selected Elite 3E as its new financial and practice management platform. This is Elite’s fourth major 3E win in the region in 12 months – Blake Dawson, DLA Phillips Fox New Zealand and a firm on Hong Kong have also ordered 3E during the past year. Interesting footnote for IT anoraks: Back in August 2000, Minter Ellison selected CMS Open (now an Aderant product) as its new PMS. Three months later is dropped CMS and switched to the rival Keystone system, which also subsequently became part of Aderant. * If their management turn up at industry events wearing kilts, they can't complain if we call them Scottish. Tuesday, July 26
APAC news: Phoenix backing Janders Dean event - and thanks for supporting us too
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 26 Jul 2011 22:53 BST
Phoenix Business Solutions are to be the platinum sponsor at the 4th Annual Janders Dean Law Firm Knowledge & Innovation Conference in Australia on 4th August. This year’s full day event will be held at the L’Aqua Restaurant & Gold Rooms, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Legal Technology Insider magazine and The Orange Rag blog are the media partners so a big thanks to Phoenix for supporting us over other publications. The speaker panel includes Tom Baldwin (Global Chief Knowledge Officer, Reed Smith LLP), Chris Freeland (National Managing Partner, Baker & McKenzie) and Sarah Lankowski (Knowledge & Learning Manager, Allen & Overy).
In conjunction with Sparke Helmore, Chris Ogram of Phoenix will be giving a presentation (starts 1:30pm) that focuses on identifying the most effective knowledge harvesting methods with quality, relevance and return on effort investment in mind. The event also includes the annual Janders Dean Law Firm Knowledge & Innovation Awards. Limited delegate places for this event are still available, please contact lauren.evans@phoenixbs.com for more details and to register. Sunday, July 24
APAC News: Aderant continuing to enjoy success
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Charles Christian
on Sun 24 Jul 2011 22:00 BST
Aderant announced today that its Asia Pacific offices finished the second quarter of 2011 with record numbers for the region. This record-setting pace comes after a successful 2010 campaign and a strong first quarter in 2011.
Aderant said top New Zealand practice Minter Ellison Rudd Watts is among a number of the new firms that have chosen to optimize their operations with the latest Aderant Expert practice management system (including three selecting Expert in the last week of June alone). Mark Weenink, managing partner at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, said “We regard the selection of Aderant as a critical long-term business investment and believe the Aderant technology strategy and direction, together with their large regional resource pool, to be best aligned with the factors most critical to our selection criteria. New product initiatives including workflow, Expert ClearView business intelligence, and advanced front-office productivity tools also played an important part in our decision to partner with Aderant.” “We continue to see strong growth across Asia Pacific, and we are expanding our market share in New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia,” said Aderant CEO Chris Giglio. “We’ve invested heavily in building our human resource infrastructure, adding additional development, consulting, and support personnel in this strategic region. The success we’ve seen in the region is a reflection of our ongoing commitment to Asia Pacific firms.” Aderant has also taken a number of firms live on Aderant Expert in the Asia Pacific region during the first half of 2011, most recently implementing fully customized practice management systems for law firms Wotton & Kearney and Holman Webb. The global executives of Aderant will soon host their clients across the region during Momentum APA 2011, the company’s annual client conference held in Sydney on 13 & 14 October. Monday, July 11
LexisNexis launch ebooks series
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Charles Christian
on Mon 11 Jul 2011 02:00 BST
LexisNexis Australia has announced the launch of its eBooks offering, which enables legal professionals to access authoritative practitioner and academic texts from LexisNexis anytime, anywhere on most mobile devices, including the Apple iPad. LexisNexis eBooks provide lawyers, law students and academics with mobility and ease of access, aiding efficient and accurate legal research.
LexisNexis says it is the first legal publisher in Australia to give lawyers a choice between printed texts and ebooks with complete functionality, enriching the range and quality of legal research in all formats. “We are bringing a new level of flexibility to lawyers and students by providing more options for them to get the legal content they need, in the format of their choice,” said Mark K. Peter, Director of Technology at LexisNexis Pacific. “LexisNexis is focused on providing solutions to match the changing needs of the legal industry, which include how our customers access information. For example, with eBooks, lawyers can read trusted LexisNexis commentary on the bus and access legislation in court, helping them work more effectively. We are excited to be leading the digital format for world-class legal content and look forward to delivering even more new digital content in the future.” LexisNexis eBooks can be read on mobile handheld devices including tablets, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, eReader devices like the Sony Reader, laptops, Macs, PCs and other smartphones. LexisNexis eBooks provide a range of features – annotations, highlighting, printing, copying and pasting, customised font size and layout and hyperlinks. LexisNexis eBooks will initially launch with 21 titles covering areas such as corporations law, consumer law and competition law, with more than 60 additional titles to be released digitally this year. eBooks currently offered include Australian Corporations Legislation 2011, Cross on Evidence and Ford’s Principles of Corporations Law (14th ed). In the future, all new publications with be available in digital and hardcopy format. To view a demo or for more information on LexisNexis eBooks visit www.lexisnexis.com.au/ebooks Thursday, June 16
APAC news: PCLaw gets mobility apps as part of upgrade
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 16 Jun 2011 01:00 BST
LexisNexis Australia has announced the launch of a new mobile application for its PCLaw Plus accounting software offering for law firms. The mobile application is offered as part of LexisNexis PCLaw Plus version 11. The mobile service is compatible with Apple iPad, iPhones, BlackBerry and Android based devices. No special software needs to be installed on the user’s mobile device, and no cables or synching are required to receive the most current information in the system. Also, data is encrypted end-to-end between the mobile device and the server, but is not stored on the device in order to maintain information security.
In addition to offering a mobile solution, PCLaw Plus v11 now integrates with Fujitsu ScanSnap desktop scanners, providing users the ability to scan documents directly from any ScanSnap scanner, easily associate it with a matter in PCLaw Plus and store it using the document management capabilities. “LexisNexis and Fujitsu have teamed up to help users go paperless and take the complication out of document imaging,” said Chris Cook, director of Practice Management at LexisNexis Pacific. “Designed specifically for sole practitioners and small law firms, the enhancements in version 11 reflect the commitment of LexisNexis to further enhance the practice of law. PCLaw Plus provides lawyers with a complete billing, accounting and matter management solution available as a standalone platform or combined with online research services from LexisNexis to further improve efficiency.” Other system upgrades to PCLaw Plus v11 include new security features that allow law firms to better restrict access to sensitive data stored within the system and improved calendar customisation with new holiday files. Both the upgrade to PCLaw Plus v11 and mobile access are available at no additional cost to customers that have an active PCLaw Plus Annual Maintenance Plan. More information about PCLaw Plus v11 software and the new PCLaw Plus Mobility service is available at www.lexisnexis.com.au/pclawplus Tuesday, June 14
TotalPatent now available in APAC region
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 14 Jun 2011 01:00 BST
LexisNexis has introduced its intellectual property (IP) protection solution LexisNexis TotalPatent in the Pacific region to help local manufacturers and companies protect their valuable IP assets, especially those that wish to do business internationally. TotalPatent is an award-winning intellectual property research, retrieval and analysis solution, comprising the world’s largest collection of searchable full-text and bibliographic patent information. By placing more than 75 million patent documents at the fingertips of IP lawyers and professionals, TotalPatent helps organisations protect, develop and maintain patent assets to minimise legal risk and increase work productivity.
"IP can represent a significant investment and a critical component of a company’s success, particularly in high-tech companies and manufacturing. Protecting IP is therefore a strategic necessity. TotalPatent from LexisNexis can help companies in the Pacific, especially those doing business internationally, both by providing information to help them protect valuable IP assets as well as optimising the potential to increase revenue opportunities" said Marc K. Peter, director of technology at LexisNexis Pacific. Introduced in the US and UK in 2007, and now available in the Pacific, TotalPatent is a single online resource featuring the most complete and up-to-date domestic and international IP content available, including a timely collection of patent, scientific and other prior art information. Users can search images, citations, legal status (unique) and patent family collections. Monday, May 23
Event advance notice: Lawtech Summit, Australia, September
by
Charles Christian
on Mon 23 May 2011 16:37 BST
Diary date for the autumn...
Chilli IQ is holding 6th Lawtech Summit & Awards on 8th & 9th September 2011 at Surfers Paradise Marriot Resort & Spa, Queensland for details visit www.chilliiq.com.au This year's Advisory Panel comprises: • John Duckett, General Manager IT, DLA PIPER • Gerard Neiditsch, Executive Director Business Integration & Technology, MALLESONS STEPHEN JAQUES • Jon Kenton, CIO, CORRS CHAMBERS WESTGARTH • Phil Scorgie, Director of Business Information Systems, NORTON ROSE • David Leong, CIO/IT Director, ARNOLD BLOCH LIEBLER • Chrissy Burns, Director of IT & Knowledge, BLAKE DAWSON |
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