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Law Society pulls the plug on the Veyo conveyancing portal – shocked to discover no demand for a product when there is a free alternative

Law Society pulls the plug on the Veyo conveyancing portal – shocked to discover no demand for a product when there is a free alternative

The Veyo hare has turned into Monty Python’s parrot. The English Law Society has just announced that its Veyo conveyancing portal is being closed down. We’ll be following up with our
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Further consolidation in UK ediscovery market as Consilio buy Proven Legal

Further consolidation in UK ediscovery market as Consilio buy Proven Legal

Consilio, a global provider of ediscovery and document review services, has just acquired UK based Proven Legal Technologies, an edisclosure and forensic consulting services provider and Relativity premium-hosting partner. This acquisition
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Innovation Roundtable – StretLaw Ltd – 9 February

Innovation Roundtable – StretLaw Ltd – 9 February

On the 9th February 2016, StretLaw will be hosting a roundtable discussion for senior IT executives in Central London. Discussing the value of Innovation within the Legal IT sector, our
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Latest UK win: Copley Clark go with Eclipse Proclaim in “six figure” deal

Latest UK win: Copley Clark go with Eclipse Proclaim in “six figure” deal

QualitySolicitors Copley Clark, part of a national network of law firms, has selected the Proclaim Practice Management Software solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the Law Society’s sole endorsed provider. Based in
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All change at NRF as Doyle moves to Deloitte

All change at NRF as Doyle moves to Deloitte

Big Four accountants Deloitte just hired Norton Rose Fulbright’s global CIO Sheila Doyle as its new CIO for the UK & Switzerland. Doyle will replace Mark Westbrook, who has been acting CIO
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Consolidation in UK legal forms sector as SC@MS buys FormsPlus

Consolidation in UK legal forms sector as SC@MS buys FormsPlus

Solicitors Case Management Systems (SC@MS – www.scams-law.com) just bought the FormsPlus legal forms business from Infolaw (www.infolaw.co.uk/forms). Infolaw has supplied its forms to the UK legal profession since 2005. FormsPlus is
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Start-up Corner: Event Planning? Add-to-Event go for crowdfunding

Start-up Corner: Event Planning? Add-to-Event go for crowdfunding

Christmas – a time for law firms and vendors to run corporate hospitality events and parties. But where do you find the suppliers to ensure the event is a success?  Two brothers – Ben
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Risk Management, Ediscovery & Compliance: Putting chat in the spotlight – analysing Instant Messaging in the Age of Connectivity

Risk Management, Ediscovery & Compliance: Putting chat in the spotlight – analysing Instant Messaging in the Age of Connectivity

by Hal Marcus, eDiscovery attorney, Recommind The LIBOR scandal has cast a spotlight on a growing trend in legal data analysis. Intriguingly, much of the notable evidence of banks manipulating interest
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Neota Logic’s work with Akerman Data Law Center will “transform the way companies manage their data law risks”

Neota Logic’s work with Akerman Data Law Center will “transform the way companies manage their data law risks”

Neota Logic says that the work it is doing with the new Akerman Data Law Center – a technology-driven data privacy and security law service for corporate counsel and compliance officers – will transform
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Startup Corner: Absolute Barrister same “Game Over” on old UX models

Startup Corner: Absolute Barrister same “Game Over” on old UX models

With Absolute Barrister set to launch its new platform in January, co-founder Simon Gittins told the Insider the focus was all about the User Experience(UX)… “We have designed one of
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BigHand’s cloud-based solution for SMEs passes 10,000 users as BigLaw becomes ‘the next story’

BigHand’s cloud-based solution for SMEs passes 10,000 users as BigLaw becomes ‘the next story’

Following its launch in April 2013 of cloud-based Professional Edition for smaller law firms, BigHand has announced that the software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital dictation solution supports more than 10,000 users across 700
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Something for the Legal Weekend: White Collar Boxing for Charity

Something for the Legal Weekend: White Collar Boxing for Charity

Lorna “Hurricane” Hegarty, who works at Douglas Wemyss Solicitors in Leicester, will make her boxing debut this Saturday when she steps into the ring to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The legal executive,
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LexisNexis and BLP win ‘supplier of the year’ and ‘best use of technology’ at The British Legal Awards

LexisNexis and BLP win ‘supplier of the year’ and ‘best use of technology’ at The British Legal Awards

LexisNexis and Berwin Leighton Paisner have won ‘supplier of the year’ and ‘best use of technology’ respectively at The British Legal Awards (BLAs) 2015. LexisNexis was recognised for its implementation
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Throwback Thursday – Eee, when I were a lad we didn’t need smartphones

Throwback Thursday – Eee, when I were a lad we didn’t need smartphones

Let’s go back in time 30 years to 1985… if you wanted access to all the functionality you have in a modern smartphone, you’d have needed to lug this lot
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Risk Management: Survey suggests compliance professionals finding compliance now major source of risk – new due diligence platform may help

Risk Management: Survey suggests compliance professionals finding compliance now major source of risk – new due diligence platform may help

Compliance is becoming so complex that today’s compliance professionals are concerned about how the function will protect businesses in future. That is according to new research from The Risk Advisory
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RBRO Solutions announces partnership with HighQ

RBRO Solutions announces partnership with HighQ

RBRO Solutions and HighQ have signed a global resell agreement that will give their customers access to one another’s flagship products. RBRO, which provides content management solutions and integration tools to
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Big Data is a behaviour – not just a technology say Berg

Big Data is a behaviour – not just a technology say Berg

Law firms have always used data to make better business decisions. But now it’s getting easier and quicker to collate data into meaningful insights from which partners can make executive decisions. Ian
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