Latest reports from Halsbury Towers, the hallowed UK home of LexisNexis, suggest that the company is about to embark upon yet another reorganisation of the management of its legal software businesses.
The story so far is that... immediately prior to the Axxia acquisition, there was a plan (devised by Kate Holden) to combine the Visualfiles and Interaction businesses into some kind of software + consultancy division. Then along came the Axxia deal and Kate Holden's new global domination plan, with Axxia and Visualfiles providing the core of a global law firms strategy and Interaction back out on its own. Then Holden (Kate) left and Axxia and Visualfiles became the UK arm of the LexisNexis Practice & Productivity Management division, with other geographical regions having their own products in their respective P&PM divisions. Now, there are rumblings of appointing a new software supremo responsible for the Axxia + Visualfiles + Interaction businesses on a UK (or even possibly EMEA-wide) basis.
We hear that Tim Cheadles, currently the general manager of LexisNexis Practice & Productivity, is the front-runner for this poison chalice prime appointment. There again, in two years' time (if they haven't been bought by Bloomberg or Google by then) LexisNexis will probably do a HotDocs and sell the whole software business off to someone else.
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Monday, November 30
LexisNexis UK looking for new legal IT head honcho
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Charles Christian
on Mon 30 Nov 2009 10:45 GMT
Friday, November 27
Kay Betts going from Elite
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 27 Nov 2009 09:00 GMT
Kay Betts, who has headed EMEA support operations for Elite for 10 plus years, has been made redundant.
Asia Pacific News Round-up
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Charles Christian
on Fri 27 Nov 2009 01:00 GMT
• Hildebrandt expand Asia-Pacific Operations
Legal management consultancy Hildebrandt (part of the Thomson Reuters group) has announced the opening of new offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Sydney effective January 1, 2010. According to the consultancy, the potential growth of the legal profession in Asia is impressive. Global firms continue to invest in the region although many lack a strategic business plan for their offices. Local and regional firms are also growing and we envision some potential consolidation of the market. The biggest challenge for local and regional firms is to put in place a structure and systems that will allow them to compete effectively in this changing market. "We would not be surprised if there were consolidation between the growing Chinese firms and a major US or UK firm." Hildebrandt chairman Bradford Hildebrandt adds "Establishing a local presence in Beijing, Hong Kong and Sydney is a natural next step for Hildebrandt as we continue to expand our operations across Asia. There are many exciting opportunities for Hildebrandt to bring state of the art consulting services to the Asian legal market. It is important for us to have offices here in order to support the needs of our clients and others investing in these cities. Hildebrandt already has strong client relationships in Australia and will continue our commitment to the region, while expanding our commitment to Asia and the ongoing needs of our clients." Hildebrandt will use its presence in Asia to provide a range of legal services including practice organization, strategic growth, client relations, compensation and governance. • Chilli IQ relaunch gets off to warm start Meanwhile Chilli Marketing Solutions relaunch as Chilli IQ got off to a good start, with over 60 people from the legal and health IT industry (including John Duckett of DLA Phillips Fox and Gerard Neiditsch of Mallesons) attending the reception last week in Sydney.    (I know, we're turning into the Heat magazine of the legal IT world.) Thursday, November 26
Baker Robbins to lose Baker
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Charles Christian
on Thu 26 Nov 2009 06:40 GMT
Baker Robbins & Company (BRCO) has just announced that co-founder and chairman David Baker will retire on January 1, 2010. Baker has worked the legal technology sector for over 30 years, founding BRCO in 1984. (In January 2007 the consultancy was acquired by Thomson Reuters.)
Baker is leaving the legal industry to accept a role with the University of Wisconsin in an initiative involving best practice development in small and mid size farm operations management. The effort is funded by the USDA's Risk Management Agency and comes at a critical time in which local, sustainable food sources must be more heavily emphasized across the country in light of growing challenges such as global warming and carbon footprint, water supply, food transportation costs, and food quality. Co-founder Brad Robbins will remain in his position of CEO at BRCO. Wednesday, November 25
Work now started on December American Insider.
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Charles Christian
on Wed 25 Nov 2009 15:22 GMT
Here's advance notice – as its the Thanksgiving Weekend in the US – that work has now started on the December issue of American Legal Technology Insider. The editorial deadline is Tuesday 1st December at 6:00pm EST. The newsletter will be published on Thursday 3 December.
Times is still hard - redundancies continue
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Charles Christian
on Wed 25 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
Forget those green shoots of recovery, times is still hard, with law firms still making cutbacks. The latest casualty is Richard Drew, the IT manager of Midlands law firm Challinors, who has just been made redundant. The firm's chief executive will now also look after the practice's IT systems. Richard can be reached at richard at rwdrew.org
Tuesday, November 24
Another liberating win for Linetime
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Charles Christian
on Tue 24 Nov 2009 14:49 GMT
Field Overell, based in Coventry & Leamington Spa, has invested in Linetime's Liberate legal accounting suite and Liberate Signature Edition case management system. The case management system will be used throughout the firm's various departments including civil litigation, employment, family, notary public services, personal injury, probate, property, and wills. It was the expansion of the firm coupled with the recent incorporation of Richard Lemberger & Co that led Field Overell to updating their IT systems.
Tikit to hold another Word day
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Charles Christian
on Tue 24 Nov 2009 14:00 GMT
Tikit are holding another of their Word days (yes, we thought it was an annual event as well but this is the second this year) on Tuesday 1st December at Travers Smith's offices at Snow Hill in London EC4. The event kicks off at 9:00am and will run through till about 4:00pm. The event includes sessions by Pannone talking about their Sharepoint implementation and Jamie Bulmer of Microsoft talking about Office 2010.
The highlight will be Tom O'Sullivan & Barry Solomon of Microsystems with their new Legal Templates Plus system in a shoot-out with Derek Sturdy & Nathan Lusher showing the Tikit Template System. There'll be digital blood on the walls.
Epiq adds Equivio to its e-discovery solution
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Charles Christian
on Tue 24 Nov 2009 11:00 GMT
Epiq Systems Inc has integrated Equivio's Relevance document prioritization technology into its IQ Review discovery management platform. “Typically, less than 20%t of documents in a collection are actually responsive to a given matter," says Greg Wildisen, Epiq international managing director. "Through its integration with Equivio Relevance, Epiq’s IQ Review allows legal teams to concentrate their efforts on responsive documents. IQ Review saves our clients significant time and money that would otherwise have been spent reviewing non-responsive material.”
Equivio Relevance is an expert-guided system that enhances the e-discovery process through automated document prioritization. Using statistical and self-learning techniques based on initial input from a lead attorney, Equivio calculates relevance scores for each document in the data collection. By scoring the review set according to relevance rankings, Equivio enables the prioritization of documents so that attorneys can immediately zero in on the most relevant material. www.epiqsystems.com www.equivio.com |
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