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Saturday, February 27
Diary Date - ILTA London event - full programme attached
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 27 Feb 2010 09:54 GMT
 1 AttachmentsFriday, February 26
SRC & Nuance to present speech recognition webinars
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 26 Feb 2010 09:00 GMT
SRC and Nuance will be running a series on 20 minute-long webinars – on the theme of Making the Case for Speech Recognition and demonstrating the Dragon NaturallySpeaking* software – on Tueaday 9th and Wednesday 10th March. (There are 3 separate webinars each day.) To register for the event, follow this link www.nuance.co.uk/makingthecase/
* Incidentally, the Legal edition of Dragon uses the SRC manufactured and developed vocabularies.
Latest Asia-Pacific News Round-up
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 26 Feb 2010 01:00 GMT
• Swerdlove is holding its inaugural TechShare 2010 Workshop Forum in Sydney on Friday 12th March. Peter Connelley of Swerdlove says the "event provides a unique opportunity for law firm business system analysts to network with their law industry peers and gain insight into real world implementations of the latest advances in practice management technology".
The roundtable forum will be hosted by law technology consultant Derek Giles and include key speakers Tom Jones (Iridium Technology), Jon Short (Moray & Agnew) and Luke Kean (Clayton Utz). TechShare 2010 is targeted at practice systems administrators and other senior technical resources (those influencers at the coal face) of tier one and two law firms in Australia. The agenda includes: GoldenGate, DocuDraft, SQL 2008, Cloud Computing, Email Notification Systems, Data Dictionary, Cubes & Reporting Services, Basicscript coding, SQL 2008 using GL Data for Reporting from CMS, Development & Version Control Further details can be found in the attached PDF document. • Following a successful 2009 year which saw a launch of their new Outlook based user interface and a strong sales year, Caseflow has partnered with Swerdlove as its New Zealand reseller Swerdlove will join Caseflow in their venture across the Tasman in what is to be the first stage in their plans to take their successful Australian Case Management System to law firms in NZ, Canada and the US. “We caught up with Swerdlove Director Derek Giles at ILTA-09 and the discussions soon focused on both organisations expansion plans. It's a natural fit” said Paul Houghton, Vice President - Business Development for Caseflow. 1 AttachmentsThursday, February 25
Latest issue of Legal Tech Insider out now
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 12:22 GMT
The latest issue (February No. #228) of the Legal Technology Insider newsletter is out now – the next issue is out on 25th March – editorial deadline 12:00noon on Friday 19 March.
iCyte giving exclusive product preview + free offer in London next week
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 10:19 GMT
iCyte is a new product from the original LiveNote development team, and is an associated company of Opus 2 International. They have arranged for Stephen Foley and Hal Marcus from iCyte in the US to present the five critical uses of iCyte for litigation data preservation, client interaction and firm-wide knowledge management, including a glimpse of the upcoming integration with Recommind.
The feedback from American law firms is that they are frustrated in losing productive time and competitive advantage struggling to retain web based research. Far better than bookmarking or printing, iCyte organises web research into a searchable, shareable knowledge base. iCyteʼs new Enterprise service lets users easily save entire web pages, annotate the useful text, and communicate securely about their saved content with others. There is a free offer for the first 20 UK law firms to sign up for the Enterprise version, which they will be announcing at the event. Opus 2 is holding the presentation – including "drinks, light bites and valuable insights" – at 6:00pm on Thursday 4 March at 25 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AL. (Hal and Stephen will also be available on Friday 5 March for private consultations and follow up meetings.) Please reply to Douglas McQuaid on 020 3178 6182 or email douglasmcquaid@opus2international.com • There is also a free consumer version of iCyte availalable – see YouTube clip – and we have also attached a PDF of the official iCyte product announcement. 1 AttachmentsWednesday, February 24
Comment: is the legal IT market SAD ?
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 24 Feb 2010 12:08 GMT
Interesting conversation with an IT vendor about the current state of the UK market. The vendor said that his company had enjoyed an OK January in terms of new prospects but then encountered the complete opposite this month (February) with law firms complaining that business was bad, they were worried about the state of the economy etc etc. What struck him as odd was the fact the economy is in no worse state in February than it was in January, prompting him to suggest that perhaps the prolonged winter and bad weather has brought on some kind of market-wide outbreak of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) depression? Perhaps we should invest in vitamin D, melatonin and light therapy lamps?
Normal service will be resumed - updated
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 24 Feb 2010 10:13 GMT
Another public service announcement: as part of their ongoing programme of patching-up the crumbling infrastructure, in about 10 minutes time EDF are scheduled to switch of our power for another 8 hours – so we'll be back to laptops, dongles, Blackberrys and maybe relocating to the local (I say local, its actually 22 miles away) Starbucks. We can pick up email but don't bother calling on the mobile number as making voice calls requires me to stand on a desk and hold the phone above my head to get a halfway decent signal. Normal service will be resumed.
* Normal service is resumed, apparently EDF didn't have a ladder long enough to reach the switch on the transformer, Tuesday, February 23
Eclipse gears up for new RTA claims regime
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 13:00 GMT
Eclipse Legal Systems, has announced its strategy for enabling practices to conform to the new RTA (Road Traffic Accident) guidelines.
In September 2009, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced the introduction of reforms to streamline the compensation system for low cost (between £1,000 and £10,000) RTA personal injury claims. These reforms will 'go live' on 6th April and will speed up the process of establishing liability and finalising claim payment. Claimant lawyers, insurers and compensators have worked in collaboration with the MoJ to develop and implement an electronic portal which supports these new processes. Cases can be processed through the portal as of 6th April. Working closely with IDSL (the body commissioned by the MoJ, responsible for managing the implementation of the new portal), Eclipse is developing workflows that will allow its Proclaim clients to utilise the "A2A" (Application-to-Application) system. A2A will utilise Web Services to enable seamless transfer of information between relevant parties. Proclaim is able to utilise Web Services as standard, and Eclipse will be offering the 'upgrade' to all of its RTA clients. Eclipse has embarked upon an active programme of education and clarification for interested RTA practices, and is also headline sponsoring 2010's two major personal injury events – the Personal Injury Awards 2010 (taking place in the autumn) and the Claims Technology Awards 2010 (taking place on 6th May in Manchester). A total of around 800 delegates are expected at the two events.
Bighand extends Blackberry recording ability
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 11:00 GMT
Bighand today launched the latest iteration of its Bighand for Blackberry Dictation App. Bighand say the launch "moves the company further ahead of its competition in terms of Blackberry device support, ensures Bighand software remains the easiest digital dictation product to administer on the market, and allows unrestricted individual dictation length." (This mean a Blackberry can now match professional dictation devices in terms of individual and total recording capacity, whereas we have heard of firms with Blackberry systems from some other vendors being advised to keep dictation times "under 2 minutes ideally" – CC)
The latest Bighand for Blackberry edition now includes: • Support for Blackberry Bold 9700 and Storm2 series of devices • Support for Blackberry OS 5 • Unrestricted individual dictation length or total capacity (limited only by size of SD-card) • Dictations which fail to be sent due to network coverage are now resent automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user • Dictation status is also updated automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user • Simplified deployment & configuration covering permissions, user/email address selection, password prompts & sync exceptions
Open Text makes another acquisition
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 10:20 GMT
As the two giants of the legal DMS world* – Open Text and Autonomy iManage – jockey for position, Open Text has just announced another acquisition: Montreal-based Nstein
Technologies Inc (a provider of digital content management
solutions) is being acquired for approximately CDN $35 million. Nstein systems are sold across several market segments, including media & information services, life sciences and government. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 and is subject to usual closing conditions & regulatory approvals.
* Well, until such time as Microsoft achieves its global domination plans and turns SharePoint into a viable out-of-the-box DMS? |
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