• Timeframe Swerdlove Adopt a New International Brand Position
Sydney... Timeframe Swerdlove formally announced the launch of a new international brand identity Swerdlove.
“The Swerdlove brand is a platform that will allow us to better communicate with clients, expand the range of products and services and increase the focus on client service delivery”, said managing director Derek Giles. “Due to increased demand over the past 12 months we have grown exponentially. Swerdlove will allow us to differentiate ourselves in the market to deliver new skills, a fresh approach to business consulting and an innovative delivery of professional services and products to our clients. The company has moved beyond providing only technical solutions to expand its advisory practice in strategic firm planning, improving operational efficiency, project and change management. The new brand will allow the company to capitalise on its unique international competencies and prominent market position. Swerdlove encompasses a strong presence in North American, Asia Pacific and some parts of Western Europe.
“While the economic conditions remain uncertain, we have seen an unprecedented need for services aimed
at maximising law firm efficiency and productivity through new innovative processes, cost reduction and
revenue maximisation”. www.swerdlove.com
• Epiq Systems opens in Hong Kong
Epiq Systems has expanded its e-discovery service offerings to include data collections, forensics and document review. Additionally, Epiq has opened a new international office in Hong Kong to offer a local datacenter and provide on the ground support across Asia. www.epiqsystems.com
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Monday, March 30
Timeframe becomes Swerdlove + other APAC news
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Charles Christian
on Mon 30 Mar 2009 18:58 BST
20 layoffs so far at one vendor
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Charles Christian
on Mon 30 Mar 2009 16:41 BST
We're just hearing reports that about 20 staff at a large legal software vendor have been layed-off/made redundant and that more departures are expected later this week from another subsidiary within the group. Our source has asked us not to name any names as (a) it might jeopardise the packages being negotiated and (b) they are not allowed to communicate with the Insider anyway.
Orange Rag & Insider to start Twitter tweets
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Charles Christian
on Mon 30 Mar 2009 09:00 BST
 Legal Technology Insider and the Orange Rag today start a Twitter service that will be bringing you the latest news – and more – in the form of 140 character 'micro-blogs'. Reflecting the increasingly popular view* that Twitter is one of those technologies that seems pointless until you start using it, we will be using Twitter to 'tweet' on: • the headlines of longer stories that will subsequently be published in the Insider or on this blog plus • to draw attention to stories on other news services and/or provide hyperlinks to those stories (using TinyURL) • to report on developments we may not subsequently report elsewhere – such as comments made at conferences • and – reflecting the fact Web 2.0 technology is all about social networking – to add a more informal and human dimension to the communications matrix, including information on some of the other activities of Charles Christian and the Legal Technology Insider group. There is now a formal link to Twitter available at the foot of the right-hand column of this blog – otherwise you can sign up to follow Insider editor Charles Christian on Twitter at http://twitter.com/FourthEstate As to whether legal technology journalism is the new rock 'n' roll, well we'll just have to wait and see whether we get more people following @FourthEstate tweets than Kerrang!!! magazine. * Another widely held view is that lawyers will never be able to use Twitter because they are congenitally incapable of expressing any idea or message within the constraints of a mere 140 characters. Friday, March 27
DPS Software buys Access Legal Systems
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Charles Christian
on Fri 27 Mar 2009 09:00 GMT
And time now for another acquisition – this time it is DPS Software which today announced it has agreed to take over the development and maintenance, support services, sales and ongoing training duties of Access Legal Systems. The Access operation, which will now be known as DPS-Access, will retain its current staff, with the exception of managing director George Fowler who is retiring. The deal brings the total number of DPS + Access accounts/PMS sites to around 200, while the total customer base of the enlarged DPS group is now around 600 organisations.
Along with providing Access customers with the same level of service they have previously enjoyed, the new business will continue to support both the Access accounts/practice management system and those (relatively few) customers who use the Access case management software. Osman Ismail, managing director of DPS Software commented, “This is great news for both Access and DPS clients. DPS have acquired a terrific product, which is supported by an excellent team of staff. We are committed to supporting the development of the product and staff alike. The client overlap is negligible and increases our client base, adding over 100 quality clients who are predominantly accounts users.” Scott Ridley, the technical dDirector at DPS added: “We have a strong development plan and software platform, which means that we can support Access customers and their software, providing them with a host of valuable benefits. Access customers now have access to products which allow them to use their existing software inside Microsoft Outlook. We have already published our intentions for the development of the Access accounts product range and the integration of these products with the DPS Outlook Office suite of software. We have already converted Outlook Office so that any Access user that wants to view ledger cards from inside Outlook can do so. Access fee earners will also have the option to issue cheque and billing requests from inside Outlook and the main databases for these products have been integrated early on in this process. This is very comforting for all users as they now have a continued and strong development path.” Wednesday, March 25
Latest (March) issue of Legal Technology Insider out now
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Charles Christian
on Wed 25 Mar 2009 12:16 GMT
The latest issue of the Legal Technology Insider newsletter (March, No.218 -UK & EMEA edition) is out now – digital copies should already be on desktops and the print version is on its way.
The top story this month is that Integreon say their outsourcing deal with Osborne Clarke is not a one-off and that they expect more law firms to follow over the next few months. Tuesday, March 24
Interwoven search gets to be Autonomy IDOL
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Charles Christian
on Tue 24 Mar 2009 12:07 GMT
Autonomy Corporation today announced that Autonomy's pan-enterprise search software, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), now powers iManage Universal Search (IUS). Autonomy iManage’s 1400 law firm clients will benefit from the same powerful enterprise search solution in use by more than 17,000 corporate customers. Autonomy announced the completion of its acquisition of Interwoven on March 17, 2009.
“The rapid integration of iManage Universal Search with Autonomy IDOL is impressive, and a sign of good things to come from the merger of Autonomy and Interwoven,” said Lorey Arthur Hoffman, CIO of Akin Gump. “The combination of Interwoven’s deep understanding of the legal market with Autonomy’s advanced enterprise search platform is transformative and will empower our lawyers with advanced capabilities that will reduce operating costs, improve productivity, and build tighter linkages with our clients.” iManage Universal Search 7.0, now based on IDOL, is a pan-enterprise search solution tailored for law firms, delivering an order of magnitude increase in performance over the previous version. This version is pin-for-pin compatible, and delivers a transparent user experience. The product is available now at no additional cost to current maintenance customers. Customers, who wish to take advantage of IDOL’s breadth of connectivity to repositories and applications, as well as a myriad of rich functions from the IDOL platform, can do so for an additional cost. The new add-on capabilities include access to more than 400 connectors and over 1,000 file types, including text, audio and video, as well as hundreds of new functions, including expertise location and automatic taxonomy support. A series of new Autonomy iManage’s modules leveraging the additional capabilities of IDOL will be released over the coming months. • Editor's comment: "Hello, that didn't take long for the Interwoven name to start being phased out and for the iManage brand to make a come-back."
Workshare versus DocsCorp - this time its personal
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Charles Christian
on Tue 24 Mar 2009 10:45 GMT
The rivalry between Workshare and DocsCorp in the document comparison and metadata management market seems to be getting personal, if not downright nasty.
If you run a Google search for 'docscorp', 'pdfdocs', 'comparedocs' and 'metadata assistant' – all brand and product names belonging to DocsCorp – the sponsored link at the top of the results pages points you to the rival Workshare site. We seem to recall this technique is known as metatag hijacking or keyword passing-off – a bit like the old trick of adding 'Britney Spears naked' to your metadata in the hope of attracting web traffic that would otherwise not visit a website. Commenting on this, a spokesman for DocsCorp said "Needless to say we will be contacting Google and following whatever other legal recourse we have." • For the record, the Orange Rag checked out the Google searches at around 10:30am, Tuesday 24 March. Friday, March 20
Legal Technology Journal & Awards go under
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Charles Christian
on Fri 20 Mar 2009 17:39 GMT
Friday 20th March, 5:30 London time... This email message was just forwarded on by a contact:
"I have had to cease publishing the Legal Technology Journal, the Legal Technology Update and Legal Technology Awards. The downturn has hit my business much harder than I had expected and as a result the products are no longer commercially viable. I am hoping this will change in the not too distant future." Jeremy Hill For the record, the Legal Technology Insider/Orange Rag blog stable of publications has no business or commercial links to any of these publications or events. We believe the Legal Marketing Awards have also been cancelled this year.
All change at LexisNexis Australia
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Charles Christian
on Fri 20 Mar 2009 14:45 GMT
Earlier this week LexisNexis issued the following statement... "LexisNexis Australia has appointed Theuns Viljoen as Chief Executive Officer following the recent resignation of Max Piper. Mr. Piper completed 20 years service with LexisNexis and seven years as CEO in Australia including responsibility for the Pacific region from 2005. Mr. Viljoen joins LexisNexis Australia in April 2009 with accountability for the Pacific region.
"Currently employed by LexisNexis South Africa, Mr. Viljoen joined the organisation 16 years ago and has held an executive position for the last 15 years. At present Mr. Viljoen is responsible for a wide range of business development activities in his role as Executive Director and has successfully led the LexisNexis Group’s business expansion into the rest of the African continent. Mr. Viljoen is an admitted attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and holds significant legal and business academic qualifications. He began his career as a legal practitioner at Bowman Gilfillan Hayman Godfrey Inc, a leading corporate and commercial South African law firm." We're not sure why Max Piper left however according to our friends on Law Librarians News, at the end of last week, a message went around LexisNexis Australia's Chatswood offices saying Piper was leaving with immediate effect to pursue 'other opportunities' – a career change decision that came a little over 72 hours after Chatswood had received a visitation from Piper's boss Judy Vezmar, who is based out of London.
E-discovery + metadata webinar on Tuesday
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Charles Christian
on Fri 20 Mar 2009 12:46 GMT
If you are interested in the subject of metadata and its impact on e-discovery, tune into this hour-long webinar, featuring Jeffrey M. Judd and Albert Barsocchini on Tuesday
• The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday 24 March at 2:00pm (EST)/6:00pm London time • To register visit www.real-ediscovery.com/ Jeffrey M. Judd is a partner at Howrey LLP where his practice emphasizes the defense of technology-intensive class claims, mass torts, and other complex litigation in state and federal courts and regulatory agencies, including the United States SEC, NHTSA, FAA, USEPA, and a host of state and local agencies. Albert Barsocchini is the senior director & assistant general counsel for Guidance Software where he is an expert on all aspects of corporate e-discovery, data privacy, and internal investigations. |
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