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Two events for your diaries

Charles Christian — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:20:07 +0000

Two UK legal IT events for your diaries...

• Copitrak is holding two webinars this week to demonstrate its neat ThreadPrint application to save paper during printing from Microsoft Outlook - the times are Tuesday 7 February (tomorrow) at 11:00am & Wednesday 8 February at 2:00pm.
http://www.copitrak-europe.com/newsevents_threadprint.html

• Phoenix Business Solutions has moved the date of its next Brekkie with our Tekkies to tomorrow - Tuesday 7 February For details email Nikki Bhogal at nikki.bhogal@phoenixbs.com

For those of you in London and who are mad-keen, it will be possible to attend the Phoenix session and then the Copitrak webinar.

Two Phoenix events for your diary

Charles Christian — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:08:08 +0000

Phoenix Business Solutions have got a couple more events coming up that you might want to put in your diaries...

• On 2nd February, they are holding another of their Brekkie with our Tekkies breakfast briefings, this time on the company's Phoenix Workspace Information Manager* (WIM), Refiler and Guardian products. Full details below...

http://www.phoenixbs.com/news-events/events/2012/brekkie-with-our-tekkies-phoenix-wim-refiler-and-guardian.aspx

* Phoenix Workspace Information Manager enables firms to present Matter/Project related information from a range of systems when clicking on a Workspace in WorkSite. WIM allows the firm to utilise the whitespace that the user sees when they click on a Workspace and populate it with clien/matter or project related information from any source within the firm. This could be contact information, financial information, critical dates or anything else that may be referred to. Pulling this information into FileSite means increases the use and flexibility of WorkSite and puts the information at the user’s fingertips.

• On 23rd February (4pm - location tbc) Phoenix are holding a product briefing on: Phoenix Office Customisation Centre. Partners Kutana will be joining to demonstrate their Print Management Software. Contact Nikki.bhogal@phoenixbs.com for more information.
Speakers: Development Manager Nick Hull + Solution Architect Guido Cianfanelli from Phoenix plus Rob Simcock and Roger Middlebrook from Kutana

Agenda:
- Why Customise Microsoft Office 2010?
- Limitations of the base product, and extend base functionality
- Prior Phoenix Customisations
- Examples of some of the bespoke development Phoenix have done, Office Templates -v- Office Customisation
- What is Office Customisation Centre?
- Overview of the main functions that will be in the release
- Product Roadmap
- Where Phoenix are now, when demos will be available & planned launch dates
- Product briefing on Kappris by Kutana

LTNY - exclusive IntApp preview: 2 new wins & record year

Charles Christian — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:17:17 +0000

And we're off with the first of many stories from LegalTech New York, starting with an exclusive preview of some news from IntApp...

IntApp Inc, provider of the most adopted confidentiality management, time capture and application integration software products for law firms, has just announced record growth figures. Presently IntApp serves over 230 customers, ranging in size from 50 to 3750 lawyers, including 63% of the 100 largest US firms as ranked by The American Lawyer.

In the past twelve months IntApp has added 48 new law firm customers and licensed 73 additional products to existing law firm customers Recent IntApp customer wins include Russell Kennedy, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Fishburns, Wiggin, Lewis Silkin, Miles & Stockbridge and Burr & Forman. In addition in 2011, IntApp grew internal headcount by over 40%, with significant investments in R&D, client support, professional services and account management staff.

Next week IntApp will also be formally announcing two new wins (but you can read them first here, right now)...

McKenna Long & Aldridge, an international law firm with 475 lawyers and public policy advisors, is now using IntApp Wall Builder to enforce ethical screens and manage information security for client confidential matters across the firm.

“Given increasing calls for confidentiality driven by clients and other factors, our firm sought to replace a legacy software tool, which IT had been using to enforce limited security in our OpenText DM5 document management system, with a more modern application that could automate the entire confidentiality lifecycle and provide our less technical staff with a user interface they could manage themselves,” said Paul Hurdle, Senior Counsel, Head of New Matter Intake & Conflicts, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. “We looked at several options and quickly recognized that IntApp was the industry expert and that Wall Builder was the most mature product. Today, with our intake and risk staff using Wall Builder to create, manage and report on confidentiality policies across the firm, we know we made the right choice.”

“From our perspective, it’s clear why so many firms have chosen IntApp Wall Builder – the product was easy to weave into our existing intake, screening and compliance reporting processes and has significantly enhanced our internal confidentiality practices,” said Dave Scarzafava, IT Financial Systems Manager, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. “We were particularly pleased with the skill and speed with which the IntApp services team implemented the product. Because of their past experience at other firms, IntApp was able to migrate the existing security rules from our legacy security tool and import them into Wall Builder without a hitch or hiccup.”

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Miles & Stockbridge PC, a mid-Atlantic law firm with over 200 lawyers, has selected IntApp Time Builder to enhance its time recording practices.

“Our firm sees tremendous opportunity to improve profitability and lawyer quality of life by automating time capture,” said Ken Adams, Chief Information Officer, Miles & Stockbridge. “We conducted peer reference checks and detailed evaluations of two products and quickly confirmed that IntApp Time Builder offered unrivaled data matching intelligence and ease of use, both of which are critical to lawyer adoption and success with this class of software.”

IntApp Time Builder is a software product that enables law firms to increase revenue by capturing billable time that is missed or under-billed. It does this by providing lawyers with an accurate, consolidated report of their client and matter-related activity, generated by automatically monitoring the key applications they use throughout the day. Tracked systems include document creation, email, calendar, phone, and mobile devices.

Update... 64 days to go & LawTech Futures crosses the chasm

Charles Christian — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:33:16 +0000

Still 64 days to go until the LawTech Futures event opens its doors on 15th March in London and the show has already crossed the chasm to becoming the event for the UK large law firms. With it's latest exhibitor signing – IRIS Legal – LawTech Futures becomes the first UK legal event to feature exhibition stands and sponsorship by all the market's top tier practice management systems suppliers (Aderant, Elite, IRIS, LexisNexis and Tata/SAP) since 2006.

Comment: Looks like this could be one of those turning points when we see a clear successor event move into the market, just as happened to the old Solex exhibitions at the Barbican.

LawTech Futures - 83 days to go + a Christmas bonus

Charles Christian — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:33:08 +0000

Yes, we know there were some typos in the last version of the programme – just get over it – but here is the final version, along with a copy of the full programme + the timetables for the three separate stages (see attached PDFs). AND, because it is Christmas, we have a special offer for you...

• We have 100 double passes (worth £490 + VAT each) going free to the first 100 law firms and inhouse legal departments to register for the event. Visit www.lawtechfutures.com and use the special offer registration code of LTicomp100