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Litera will today (31 July) announce that Manoj Goyal will join the company as chief technology officer, effective immediately. Goyal brings more than 30 years of enterprise SaaS and cloud services experience to the position, having previously served as chief product officer and chief technology officer at Marketo, group vice president at Oracle, and executive director at Hewlett Packard.

Email management disruptor ZERØ and leading legal management consulting firm Fireman & Company have entered a strategic partnership in order to help deliver productivity, compliance, and profitability solutions to large law firms.

And there’s more news for DocsCorp as it this week announces its PDF editing and bundling application pdfDocs now integrates with DocuSign, with Norway’s Wiersholm among the first firms to take advantage of the integration.

UK top 100 law firm Taylor Vinters has swapped back from Workshare Compare to compareDocs for smart document comparison and review. It joins several other firms that have selected compareDocs in recent months, including Fladgate, Fondia, and Beiten Burkhardt.

The New Zealand government claims to have become the first in the world to outline a set of standards to guide the use of algorithms by public agencies, once again shining a light on what governments around the world are doing to ensure scrutiny of tools that are increasingly being relied on in crucial areas such as criminal assessment and sentencing.

The July/August Orange Rag will be out next week so make sure you get all your wins, deals, stories, moves and more to us by Friday 31 July.

Fast-growing ASX-listed cyber security exchange WhiteHawk today (28 July) announced that it has won a US Federal Government contract as a prime supplier to implement its Cyber Risk Radar.

Thomson Reuters Elite has launched 3E 2.9.1., where one of the key updates is enhanced eBillingHub integration. Earlier this month Aderant announced updated to iTimekeep in its latest release, in which iTimekeep is now embedded within Microsoft Outlook.

BT’s former head of legal vendor management, Neil Willson, has joined global managed legal service provider Kalexius as head of consulting, we can reveal. Willson, who ran BT’s most recent panel selection under which the telecoms company cut its panel law firms from 40 to 15, is based in the UK and will help Kalexius grow its UK presence.

Leading Scottish headquartered law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has become the first law firm to deploy Prosperoware’s integrated enterprise privacy management platform CAM for Microsoft Teams, supported by Ascertus Limited.

Leading UK national full-service law firm JMW Solicitors has selected Tiger Eye to manage their move to the iManage Cloud across their three UK offices in Manchester, London and Liverpool. According to the Legal IT Insider UK top 200, JMW previously used Eclipse Proclaim for document management.

Florida-headquartered law firm Cole, Scott & Kissane (CSK) has attributed its ability to weather the COVID-19 pandemic without layoffs or pay cuts to its use of Zoom, which now replaces WebEx and LifeSize as its main video meeting and webinar tool.

We might be in the middle of a worldwide
pandemic, but there is no stopping the irresistible force that
is the most definitive Guide to UK eDisclosure systems.
Andrew Haslam and Legal IT Insider today (29 April)
publish the 2020 edition of the “industry bible”, now in its
eighth year. There have been 90 modifications to the entries,
with the Guide now showing 111 suppliers and 75 products,
reflecting an additional 12 companies and seven new
applications.

Nicole Bradick is founder and CEO of legal and justice technology product design and development firm Theory and Principle and a well-known speaker on the legal tech circuit. Her company works with clients globally to create custom web and mobile applications. Here she speaks to Legal IT Insider about her top priorities, legal sector progress (or lack of) and who she would most like to hang out with, dead or alive.

Thomson Reuters today (22 July) unveils Westlaw Edge UK, which now runs on the same platform as Westlaw in the United States and offers new features and functionality such as direct legislation comparison, case analytics, and a UK-EU divergence tracker to help end users navigate the legislative fallout from Brexit.

Obelisk Support has won almost £50,000 of funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to develop a productivity tool that will help SMEs manage the shift to remote working caused by Covid-19.