iCyte is a new product from the original LiveNote development team, and is an associated company of Opus 2 International. They have arranged for Stephen Foley and Hal Marcus from iCyte in the US to present the five critical uses of iCyte for litigation data preservation, client interaction and firm-wide knowledge management, including a glimpse of the upcoming integration with Recommind.
The feedback from American law firms is that they are frustrated in losing productive time and competitive advantage struggling to retain web based research. Far better than bookmarking or printing, iCyte organises web research into a searchable, shareable knowledge base. iCyteʼs new Enterprise service lets users easily save entire web pages, annotate the useful text, and communicate securely about their saved content with others. There is a free offer for the first 20 UK law firms to sign up for the Enterprise version, which they will be announcing at the event.
Opus 2 is holding the presentation – including "drinks, light bites and valuable insights" – at 6:00pm on Thursday 4 March at 25 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AL. (Hal and Stephen will also be available on Friday 5 March for private consultations and follow up meetings.) Please reply to Douglas McQuaid on 020 3178 6182 or email douglasmcquaid@opus2international.com
• There is also a free consumer version of iCyte availalable – see YouTube clip – and we have also attached a PDF of the official iCyte product announcement.
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Thursday, February 25
iCyte giving exclusive product preview + free offer in London next week
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Charles Christian
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 10:19 GMT
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Comment: is the legal IT market SAD ?
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Charles Christian
on Wed 24 Feb 2010 12:08 GMT
Interesting conversation with an IT vendor about the current state of the UK market. The vendor said that his company had enjoyed an OK January in terms of new prospects but then encountered the complete opposite this month (February) with law firms complaining that business was bad, they were worried about the state of the economy etc etc. What struck him as odd was the fact the economy is in no worse state in February than it was in January, prompting him to suggest that perhaps the prolonged winter and bad weather has brought on some kind of market-wide outbreak of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) depression? Perhaps we should invest in vitamin D, melatonin and light therapy lamps?
Normal service will be resumed - updated
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Charles Christian
on Wed 24 Feb 2010 10:13 GMT
Another public service announcement: as part of their ongoing programme of patching-up the crumbling infrastructure, in about 10 minutes time EDF are scheduled to switch of our power for another 8 hours – so we'll be back to laptops, dongles, Blackberrys and maybe relocating to the local (I say local, its actually 22 miles away) Starbucks. We can pick up email but don't bother calling on the mobile number as making voice calls requires me to stand on a desk and hold the phone above my head to get a halfway decent signal. Normal service will be resumed.
* Normal service is resumed, apparently EDF didn't have a ladder long enough to reach the switch on the transformer, Tuesday, February 23
Eclipse gears up for new RTA claims regime
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Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 13:00 GMT
Eclipse Legal Systems, has announced its strategy for enabling practices to conform to the new RTA (Road Traffic Accident) guidelines.
In September 2009, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced the introduction of reforms to streamline the compensation system for low cost (between £1,000 and £10,000) RTA personal injury claims. These reforms will 'go live' on 6th April and will speed up the process of establishing liability and finalising claim payment. Claimant lawyers, insurers and compensators have worked in collaboration with the MoJ to develop and implement an electronic portal which supports these new processes. Cases can be processed through the portal as of 6th April. Working closely with IDSL (the body commissioned by the MoJ, responsible for managing the implementation of the new portal), Eclipse is developing workflows that will allow its Proclaim clients to utilise the "A2A" (Application-to-Application) system. A2A will utilise Web Services to enable seamless transfer of information between relevant parties. Proclaim is able to utilise Web Services as standard, and Eclipse will be offering the 'upgrade' to all of its RTA clients. Eclipse has embarked upon an active programme of education and clarification for interested RTA practices, and is also headline sponsoring 2010's two major personal injury events – the Personal Injury Awards 2010 (taking place in the autumn) and the Claims Technology Awards 2010 (taking place on 6th May in Manchester). A total of around 800 delegates are expected at the two events.
Bighand extends Blackberry recording ability
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Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 11:00 GMT
Bighand today launched the latest iteration of its Bighand for Blackberry Dictation App. Bighand say the launch "moves the company further ahead of its competition in terms of Blackberry device support, ensures Bighand software remains the easiest digital dictation product to administer on the market, and allows unrestricted individual dictation length." (This mean a Blackberry can now match professional dictation devices in terms of individual and total recording capacity, whereas we have heard of firms with Blackberry systems from some other vendors being advised to keep dictation times "under 2 minutes ideally" – CC)
The latest Bighand for Blackberry edition now includes: • Support for Blackberry Bold 9700 and Storm2 series of devices • Support for Blackberry OS 5 • Unrestricted individual dictation length or total capacity (limited only by size of SD-card) • Dictations which fail to be sent due to network coverage are now resent automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user • Dictation status is also updated automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user • Simplified deployment & configuration covering permissions, user/email address selection, password prompts & sync exceptions
Open Text makes another acquisition
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Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 10:20 GMT
As the two giants of the legal DMS world* – Open Text and Autonomy iManage – jockey for position, Open Text has just announced another acquisition: Montreal-based Nstein
Technologies Inc (a provider of digital content management
solutions) is being acquired for approximately CDN $35 million. Nstein systems are sold across several market segments, including media & information services, life sciences and government. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 and is subject to usual closing conditions & regulatory approvals.
* Well, until such time as Microsoft achieves its global domination plans and turns SharePoint into a viable out-of-the-box DMS? Monday, February 22
Recession? They think it's all over - it isn't now!
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Charles Christian
on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:00 GMT
Further signs that the UK economy may be heading into a double-dip recession. After mentioning on Friday that we had a senior/experienced legal sales person looking for a new job, the Orange Rag office has been approached by more sales-staff over the weekend. All are in the same boat: wanting to jump before they are pushed by their current suppliers in the next round of economising.
We've already seen a number of law firms – small, medium and at least one very large practice – wielding the knife with fresh job-cuts at the end of last year/early this year, and now it looks as if it is spreading to legal IT suppliers. Well, at least some IT suppliers – typically those who lived off their reserves last year and now are facing the prospect of another year of empty order-books. On the other hand, last Friday's note immediately prompted a response from three different vendors who are actively looking to recruit staff to deal with the growing demand for their company's products and services. So, perhaps the impact of the recession is not endemic but merely life-threatening to suppliers with already failing health? • For the record, the Orange Rag is not a recruitment agency and is not charging any fees for the introductions we've been making – it's just another free service to our readers. Friday, February 19
Former Wragges head honcho to head legal jobsboard
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Charles Christian
on Fri 19 Feb 2010 12:33 GMT
John Crabtree OBE, a former senior partner at Birmingham-based law firm Wragge & Co, has been appointed chairman of a new online legal jobs website – www.comparelegaljobs.com During his 12 years as senior partner, Wragge & Co grew in turnover from £13m to more than £80m. (As far as we know, nobody has yet set up a comparelegalmeercats website.)
Survey highlights mobile metadata risk
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Charles Christian
on Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:49 GMT
The results of a recent survey conducted by metadata removal specialist 3BView suggest the use of document security technology has failed to keep pace with the spread of mobile devices, including Blackberrys, iPhones, PDAs and netbooks. In a sample of 250 lawyers from around the world (68% in the US, 14% from the UK), the survey found that while 90% of firms with 51+ attorneys have metadata tools in place for their desktops, only 3% have similar protection for documents sent or forwarded by email from a mobile device. The survey also found that the use of mobile devices as an alternative to laptops is high, with 67% now reviewing documents on such devices – and 50% doing it on a daily or weekly basis.
Click on the attached documents for the survey results + a white paper on mobile security. 2 AttachmentsThursday, February 18
You'd better watch out, Sharepoint 2010 is coming to town
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Charles Christian
on Thu 18 Feb 2010 10:45 GMT
Buried among the hugger-mugger of the New York LegalTech show, was a special briefing organised by ILTA on the topic of SharePoint. Delegates attending this session came away very excited at the prospect that the next version of SharePoint – 2010, scheduled for June/Q2 availability – could be the DMS-killer everyone has been waiting for. In otherwords a version offering almost out-of-the-box document management functionality.
If you want to see a beta version of SharePoint 2010 in action, check out this link to the US Olympic Committee's press/media site for coverage of the Winter Olympic Games. http://pressbox.teamusa.org/Pages/HOME.aspx |
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