After a bit of chivying by the Orange Rag, Thomson Elite have announced the following statement...
"After five successful years with Thomson Elite, Kaye Sycamore has announced that she has decided to move on to new pastures. For family reasons, Kaye is moving to a position that will allow her to spend more time travelling between the UK and New Zealand. Kaye will remain in her current role as Vice President International for Elite until the end of October, and the six months until her departure will ensure a smooth handover of responsibilities with Kim Massana, Elite's Senior Vice President for their International region. Kaye will be joining Chrome River after her departure, where she will be leading their market development activity in the UK and Asia Pacific regions."
This sounds like 6 months gardening leave tho this is the first time we've ever seen the explanation that someone is moving to a position that will allow them "to spend more time travelling between the UK and New Zealand."
Kaye Sycamore was of course one of the founders of the old Keystone PMS business, now part of Aderant. As for Chrome River Technologies, this is an online expense reporting and management system that was founded about 18 months ago by Alan Rich, one of the co-founders of Elite (now Thomson Elite). Other directors of Chrome River, which is based in Los Angeles, include former Elite vice presidents Dave Terry and Anne Becknell.
Three US top 25 law firms (Jones Day, Paul Hastings and Weil Gotshal) are already running the system – which is supplied on an SaaS model (software as a service) – under the slogan of 'It Fits, It Saves, It Protects, It Rocks'.
www.chromeriver.com
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Friday, May 16
Kaye Sycamore quits Thomson Elite
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Charles Christian
on Fri 16 May 2008 12:44 BST
Wednesday, May 14
Metastorm planning IPO
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 14 May 2008 14:56 BST
Recession, what recession? Workflow and BPM (business process management) systems specialist Metastorm Inc has just announced that it has filed a registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the anticipated price range for the offering have not been determined.
Tuesday, May 13
Aderant user conference rocks on
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 13 May 2008 06:59 BST
Aderant's annual Momentum user conference got off to a flying start at San Diego on Monday evening with barn-storming presentations by the company's CEO Mike Kohlsdorf and senior VP sales & marketing Don Howren. There will be a full report in the May issue of Legal Technology Insider but in the meantime... some visual aids.
The theme for the conference this year, which is taking place at the Hard Rock Hotel, is Momentum Rocks 08 – with plenty of rock music themed sessions and events. This included the annual Bridge Awards (given out to firms that Aderant has had an exceptionally close working relationship over the past 12 months) which saw the winners being presented with platinum discs – an imaginative change from the boring perspex blobs usually doled out at awards ceremonies. And, talking of imaginative, full marks to Aderant too for picking the venue. Perhaps some UK suppliers might like to take note and consider treating their users to an interesting location, rather than the beige chain hotels located by a motorway roundabout that seems to be the norm. The pictures show the Aderant publicity for the event and representatives of the firms that won this year's Bridge Awards, along with their discs. The winning firms were: Herbert Smith, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, Ford & Harrison, Troutman Sanders and Rendigs Fry Kiely & Dennis. The awards concluded with a reception sponsored by FloSuite.   Monday, May 12
Midgley Corner - wireless networks
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Charles Christian
on Mon 12 May 2008 11:48 BST
So I'm sitting in a hotel room in San Diego (I came here to get away from all that sun in the UK) with my caveman DNA telling me to get up because its 11:30 on a Monday morning (actually its 3:30 am local time) and the sabre-tooth tigers will get me if I stay in bed any longer – trying to send email via the hotel's wireless network. But I can't because there are a dozen other corporate wifi networks belonging to guests running across the infrastructure and confusing my SMTP server. Guess what, none of the other networks are encrypted and that includes the one belonging to A Very Large UK Law Firm. Hey ho, when it comes to security it's always do as I say, not as I do.
Friday, May 9
They ain't happy - the updated version
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Charles Christian
on Fri 09 May 2008 14:47 BST
One of the UK's providers of online legal training and information via the websites legaltraining.tv and lawinabox.tv today announced the termination of its agreements and all business relations with Semple Piggot Rochez Ltd, Semple Piggot Rochez (Legal Education) Ltd and Michael Semple Piggot. Legaltraining.tv Ltd entered into these agreements from November 2006 onwards but these have been terminated and are no longer in effect due to SPR Ltd, SPR (LE) Ltd and Michael Semple Piggot being in breach of and unable to fulfil contractual commitments.
Peter Lewinton, managing director of Legal Training.tv Ltd commented "It has become necessary for Legaltraining.tv to cease all activities with SPR Ltd, SPR (LE) Ltd and Mr Semple Piggot and make it clear to all those with an interest in the publication of legal information online that we are not working with SPR Ltd, SPR (LE) Ltd or Mr Semple Piggot." In response Mike Semple Piggot said "Although there was never any direct personal contractual relationship between Legaltraining.tv and myself – all the contracts were at a corporate level – it has proved difficult in current trading conditions for SPR to continue to fulfill its obligations." Mike Semple Piggot added "I still believe in the vision of online training as the future. Peter Lewinton has some excellent ideas that I believe he will be able to deliver. I wish him well."
IRIS strategy debate continues
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Charles Christian
on Fri 09 May 2008 12:14 BST
For those of you still awake at the back of the class (well it is a Friday lunchtime) you might like to note that we are still receiving new comment postings on the IRIS strategy – in particular over the issue of Progress versus SQL Server.
Tuesday, May 6
Competitions that make you go hmmm...
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 06 May 2008 09:25 BST
We've always been fascinated by IT suppliers' competitions and the fact most of them leave you scratching your head thinking "what were these people smoking when they came up with this idea?" The latest vendor to go down this route is the DDS supplier nFlow. For the past 12 months they have been running a promotional campaign around the slogan of 'the grass is greener' – as is in: it's not too late to drop your wonky digital dictation system and switch to nFlow – aided and abetted by some dinky cans of soil and grass seed, so you can grow your own patch of green grass. (Geddit?) Anyway earlier this year someone at nFlow PR Central (that would be Laura) came up with the wizzard wheeze of a competition so people could grow their own grass, decorate it and submit a picture, with the best ones winning a prize. And now we have the winners – I know, contain your excitement.
Winning the prize for the most luxuriant tuft of grass (is there something Freudian going on here) was Debbie Williams of Accuro, while the prize for the most 'amusing' (their word, not ours) lawn went to Marjorie Caballero of Collins Dryland & Thorowgood. You can't quite see the captions on the picture below but it is a comment on the recent Mills McCartney divorce. The left caption reads 'Heather', the right 'Macca', the one at the front 'Fiona' and the one at the back 'Where is the snake in the grass?' We are speechless...  Saturday, May 3
Orange Rag readership hits new high
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Charles Christian
on Sat 03 May 2008 09:17 BST
The Orange Rag's readership for April hit a new all time high with 16,400 distinct hosts served and just over 150,000 page views recorded. Thank you.
Friday, May 2
Something for the weekend
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Charles Christian
on Fri 02 May 2008 08:22 BST
With the long weekend on its way, here is something to ponder... Earlier this week it was reported that electric nailfiles and laser guided scissors (ooh, that could have your eye out – no really – see picture) were, according to UK shoppers, the two most useless gadgets on sale today. But what about useless legal IT gadgets?
We'd like to hear your views on what you feel are the most useless – as in they sounded a good idea at the time but when you actually got your hands on them, they failed to live up to expectations nd you realised it would have been simpler and less hassle to have used a pencil and a piece of paper to achieve the same result – gadgets you've encountered during the course of your work. Here are three suggestions... speech recognition software, time recording barcode reading gadgets of all types (including that strange dildo like 'pen' TFB used to sell) and (for older readers) the Psion Organiser with its non-qwerty keypad. Just post your comments and we'll report the results later. Otherwise (for UK readers at least) have a good holiday.  Thursday, May 1
Law on the Web for sale
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Charles Christian
on Thu 01 May 2008 09:38 BST
The legal information websites LAW on the WEB (www.lawontheweb.co.uk) and Can I Claim? (www.caniclaim.com) are up for sale, and with a readership in excess of 750,000 unique users every year, all of whom are looking for legal advice and information, there is bound to be a lot of interest in acquiring the sites.
Offers are invited for the purchase of the
websites, together with
all the current information on the sites, documents sold through the sites,
current revenue streams and all future revenue streams. The domain names are
part of the package, together with other associated domain names. Formal offers in excess of £150,000 plus vat are invited before the deadline at midday on
Friday 13th June 2008.
“ I have been running the sites for more than 9 years now and it is time for someone else to take them to the next level”, explains former solicitor Martin Davies, who set up LAW on the WEB at home as a marketing exercise whilst still in private practice in 1999. “The potential for a forward-thinking law firm is huge with such a massive target audience. Just one £5 DIY document download a year to 5% of the current readership would produce revenue of £187,500 and a law firm could provide additional telephone support and follow-up, which we cannot do at the moment.” Initially LAW on the WEB was just a directory of law firms that had websites. From there the site developed with the provision of some basic free legal information. It now has more than 200 pages. “Once we had a reasonable readership and good placement with search engines, I decided that I would work full-time on the site.” That was in early 2001 and a year later a separate site, www.caniclaim.com, was set up specifically to target personal injury and medical negligence work. Last year LAW on the WEB received visits from more than 648,000 individuals, and this year figures are up by around 15%, with almost 250,000 unique visitors in the first 4 months of the year alone. In addition to revenue from basic legal document sales, pre-paid telephone advice and panel solicitor membership, the sites generate over 400 personal injury leads and nearly 200 medical negligence case leads per year. “Given the changes that are likely to occur within the legal profession following the introduction of the provisions of Legal Services Act over the next few years, then any forward-thinking law firm ought to look at the opportunities that these websites will offer them to compete in a market that is likely to be dominated by some big hitters. The so-called era of Tesco Law is fast approaching. The AA, the Co-Op, the Halifax and Tesco itself are already diversifying into legal services." Alternatively another entrepreneurial solicitor might like to consider taking the sites on. As Davies says “It beats being in private practice, but still allows you to use all the legal skills that you have built up over the years.” A full information pack is available to any prospective purchaser on request at mail@lawontheweb.co.uk or 01243 535377. |
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