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Mover and shaker: Steph Abbott, HSF

Mover and shaker: Steph Abbott, HSF

Congratulations to Steph Abbott, who has taken on the role of director of knowledge & learning at Herbert Smith Freehills, heading the function globally. Abbott, who is based in Australia,
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Updated: Akin Gump adopts Filetrail as part of wider cultural IG change

Updated: Akin Gump adopts Filetrail as part of wider cultural IG change

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has adopted FileTrail GPS to help manage the way it retains, stores and ultimately destroys its data. The move – notably underpinned by a
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Legal IT People News… Integreon hire Joanne Shields to grow offshore data breach analysis team

Legal IT People News… Integreon hire Joanne Shields to grow offshore data breach analysis team

Integreon just announced the addition of Joanne Shields as Director for DBA Services leading its Data Breach Analysis (DBA) teams in India. Joanne joins Integreon’s growing DBA practice which provides
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Intapp acquires OnePlace: The analysis

Intapp acquires OnePlace: The analysis

We speak to Intapp’s CEO John Hall and OnePlace founder and CEO Tim Smith about the acquisition, which as we exclusively revealed in the May Orange Rag, will see OnePlace
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Simkins: How we modernised our cost recovery with nQueue

Simkins: How we modernised our cost recovery with nQueue

When Simkins had the opportunity to modernise its cost recovery system the choice boiled down to Equitrac, PaperCut or nQueue. Nick Wright, IT manager at Simkins LLP describes the journey
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Legal IT Events News… Legal Design Breakfast with Neota Logic – London 4 July

Legal IT Events News… Legal Design Breakfast with Neota Logic – London 4 July

Date: Thursday 4th July Time: 8.30 – 10.00am Venue: Hawksmoor Guildhall RSVP – https://www.neotalogic.com/2019/05/29/london-legal-design-breakfast-roundtable-for-general-counsel/ The use of automation and self-service applications is becoming a popular
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Legal IT Webinar News… Styles Webinar with UK Document Excellence Group – 6 June

Legal IT Webinar News… Styles Webinar with UK Document Excellence Group – 6 June

Your documents are at the heart of your brand; it is vital they promote your unique values and standards and can be used effectively when collaborating with colleagues, clients and
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Gordon McAlpine joins Mason & Cook to lead global tech product launch

Gordon McAlpine joins Mason & Cook to lead global tech product launch

BigHand’s co-founder and legal tech veteran Gordon McAlpine (pictured) has joined resource management consultancy Mason & Cook as a non-executive director to oversee the growth strategy of its technology product –
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Legal IT Newswire Deal News… K&L Gates finds advantage with Litera Desktop

Legal IT Newswire Deal News… K&L Gates finds advantage with Litera Desktop

K&L Gates, a global top 50 firm, is using Litera Desktop to simplify their lawyers’ document drafting workflow. Litera Desktop, a single toolbar customized to include everything a lawyer needs
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von Briesen & Roper: Simple Innovation

von Briesen & Roper: Simple Innovation

von Briesen & Roper’s strapline is “We do things differently” and, according to CIO William Caraher, that statement also applies to their approach to technology – but it’s the simplest
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Comment on Trending: The “One” & only “Place” to be “Global” tech giant Intapp’s latest acquisition by LB

Comment on Trending: The “One” & only “Place” to be “Global” tech giant Intapp’s latest acquisition by LB

Not sure it’s a strange one IMO. The product sits well in Intapp’s portfolio and compliments the Dealcloud offering. We have seen Intapp take this path before with Frayman. Expand
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Is no news good news?

Is no news good news?

On 8 May we announced that Allen & Overy has signed an agreement for the use of Eigen Technologies’ natural language processing tech.  A&O is the second magic circle firm
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PLMJ hacked

PLMJ hacked

In news that has yet to make it out of Iberia, Portugal’s largest law firm, PLMJ, this year became the latest firm to fall victim to a cyberattack after its
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The May 2019 Legal IT Insider Newsletter – issue #323 – is out now

The May 2019 Legal IT Insider Newsletter – issue #323 – is out now

Well well well, how is it the end of May, that’s what we want to know… In this bumper issue of the Orange Rag we bring you all the latest
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LTC4 in major overhaul

LTC4 in major overhaul

Legal tech competency company LTC4 has completely overhauled its business model, ditching its annual membership and introducing the ability to pay for learning plans as you go. Law firms will
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Comment on Trending: The “One” & only “Place” to be “Global” tech giant Intapp’s latest acquisition by NC

Comment on Trending: The “One” & only “Place” to be “Global” tech giant Intapp’s latest acquisition by NC

strange one this – CRM will remain a white elephant in legal as long as the Partnership model and the ‘my client’ ethos exists (despite the fluff some firms spout).
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Clarilis to underpin TLT white label document automation service

Clarilis to underpin TLT white label document automation service

TLT has extended its existing relationship with Clarilis, which on top of helping TLT to automate its own contracts internally will now form the basis of a white labelled document
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