There's a new podcast available on Mike Semple-Pigot's Insite Law online magazine featuring an interview with Charles Christian on future trends in legal IT.
www.insitelawmagazine.com/charonpodcast148.htm
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Wednesday, July 22
Charles Christian podcast available now
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 22 Jul 2009 15:21 BST
July issue of Legal Technology Insider (UK/EMEA) out now
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 22 Jul 2009 13:28 BST
The July issue of the Legal Technology Insider newsletter (UK & EMEA edition) is out now. Digital copies are already on desktops and the print edition in the post. Top stories include...
- Eclipse wins top 30 site - SOS clean up the West - Shoosmiths go with SAP - Saturn 27 has near death experience - Exigent & Pinsent Masons in LPO deal - Tikit Word Day - don't fear the ribbon - All July's big wins and deals We also have a new survey – details below. Our next issue is out in September – and can PR consultants stop crying down our phone just because we didn't have space for their stories. The Survey: cost recovery policies uncovered Most firms recover certain costs from clients, such as for photocopying, but partners are often nervous about upsetting clients by what may seem penny-pinching measures. This can lead to inconsistent policies on cost recovery across departments, and even between different partners within the same department. To try to understand these issues better and analyse trends around cost recovery, Legal Technology Insider and NewField IT, an independent print and document management consultancy, have created a new online survey that can be accessed at www.newfieldit.com/surveys/legal/index.html • Everyone completing the survey will receive a free report providing a detailed analysis of the results. Note: no published data will identify individuals or firms. A summary of the results will also be published in a future issue of the Insider + on the Orange Rag blog
Consumer credit firm selects Visualfiles
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:17 BST
LexisNexis today announced that Manchester-based Consumer Credit Litigation Solicitors (CCLS) has chosen to deploy the Visualfiles case management system. Selected in a tendering process, Visualfiles is currently being deployed on over 100 desktops across CCLS’ offices in Manchester and Newark. The firm says it chose Visualfiles for its web functionality, product quality, flexibility and customisability. 'In addition, CCLS was impressed with the system’s ability to support CCLS’ business growth aspirations and LexisNexis’ long term product development roadmap for this solution.'
Visualfiles will automate the firm’s business processes – from case inception through to closure – facilitating more effective and faster handling of cases and matters. CCLS provides legal advice and representation on consumer credit litigation matters where the financial contracts are flawed, invalid or unenforceable. This includes high volume legal areas such as car finance, unsecured loans and mortgages, and credit cards. Visualfiles also offers portal-based access to the case management system. CCLS will be able to set up an extranet to allow its case handlers and team of external legal advisors to share information and updates on case matters in real-time. Tuesday, July 21
UAE Blackberry update contained spyware
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 21 Jul 2009 14:33 BST
Firms with offices in the United Arab Emirates may want to check out this BBC news story about a local unauthorised software update for the Blackberry that trashed devices and installed spyware. Our thanks to Ian Lauwerys, the IT director of Kennedys, for drawing our attention to it. For the record, Kennedys run all their Dubai devices out of the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8161190.stm
There's jobs out there - picking up the pieces
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 21 Jul 2009 08:27 BST
There are still high-paying job vacancies available – in fact the www.LegalTechnology.com jobsboard currently has one London-based slot offering a salary of £150,000 pa + bonuses. But the jobs are increasingly in the realms of picking up the pieces – this job, for instance, is for someone to head up a computer forensics and e-discovery team investigating the aftermath of financial disasters elsewhere. Other job types still in demand include case management developers and Interaction/marketing systems administrators.
Friday, July 17
Insider deadline now closed
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 17 Jul 2009 15:21 BST
The deadline for submitting editorial content to the July issue of the Legal Technology Insider newsletter has now closed. Could PRchiks please note that today is the final deadline and to ensure you get your stories into our in-tray in ample time, the earlier you submit them, the better.
Vinasty - it's that woman again, looking lovely in lime-green
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 17 Jul 2009 08:28 BST
After the grim news of yesterday, here's something to cheer you up – a new story about Vin Murria, complete with fashion notes, a quote by Michael Jackson (OK, another Michael Jackson) and a Hello-style photograph. Our thanks to the TOR reader who forwarded this link from The Times Online – and yes, we know, some of you would like to know what her prescription for sorting out the legal IT market was meant to have been...
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/health/article6690050.ece Thursday, July 16
Shoosmiths drop Elite for SAP - amended
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 16 Jul 2009 18:09 BST
Breaking news... Shoosmiths has selected the SAP/TCS (Tata) platform as a replacement for its existing Elite Eterprise PMS. The two vendors in the final run-off were SAP/TCS and Elite with 3E.
• Elite have asked us to point out that Shoosmiths is not on Enterprise PMS. "They are currently running Elite-for-Windows (2.5D version and Informix) which was released in 1997. Less than a handful of Elite’s clients are still on this version."
Saturn 27 falls out of orbit and restructures
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 16 Jul 2009 09:03 BST
The deepening recession has claimed another victim, this time the consultancy and systems house Saturn 27 which called in the administrators earlier this week and has now restructured. Here is the formal statement...
Saturn27 Limited has appointed an Administrator to assist in the process of re-organising it's UK business in order to focus on it's key strengths. Saturn27 Limited was established in 2004, providing strategic consulting services to professional services firms. The company has undergone a considerable period of growth in the last couple of years with turnover increasing by 300% in the last twelve months alone. This growth has burdened the company with certain operational overheads which, in the current difficult trading conditions, have had to be reviewed. Following a new management buyout, backed by several new key investors, the firm can concentrate on it's primary market – the provision of independent technology consulting services to the legal market. Several members of it's team of consultants have transitioned across to the new business with contracts already in place. As part of the re-organisation, the company will cease sales of third party products and concentrate on pure service delivery. The new company intends to continue working with existing software vendors to maximise customers' return on investment and get best use out of current and future technologies and is keen to explore ways of working together in order to try and minimise any losses. Existing contracts with clients will continue to be resourced and the company already has a healthy order book moving forward. The separate North American business of Saturn27 NA LLC, based in Boston, is unaffected by this change. Friday, July 10
DWF expands its Visualfiles case management
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 10 Jul 2009 13:00 BST
DWF LLP has selected LexisNexis Visualfiles as its practice-wide case management system and will be integrated with the firm's Elite 3E PMS, InterAction CRM and Autonomy iManage DMS.
LexisNexis is providing DWF with a site-wide licence for Visualfiles that will see the software deployed on 900 desktops across the firm’s locations in Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester and Preston. DWF has been using Visualfiles in its insurance business for some years but the decision has now been made to roll it out practice-wide. In addition, DWF has secured preferential access to all new Visualfiles products (including we, assume, the upcoming Manilla/Streamline product) over the period of the deal. |
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