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Comment: New Law business models and Start-ups

Comment: New Law business models and Start-ups

Here’s a link to an interesting article we spotted over the weekend on NewLaw business models and Start-ups… What It Means When Law Firms And Startups Give Away Legal
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Life after Envision – there is hope, or at least Opes !

Life after Envision – there is hope, or at least Opes !

Following on from the night-before-Christmas announcement by Thomson Reuters Elite that it was putting its Envision (aka Pilgrim LawSoft) system in “maintenance mode” (i.e. end-of-lifing it), Elite’s long-standing UK partner Opes Consulting is
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It’s all about voice technology

It’s all about voice technology

Two voice tech related stories for you this morning featuring BigHand and Berg Legal plus Voice Technologies and Gillespie Gifford & Brown… • Earlier this year Manchester-based Berg Legal, extended
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Why LinkedIn is for Pimping – a little light reading for the Legal IT weekend

Why LinkedIn is for Pimping – a little light reading for the Legal IT weekend

Book review: The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users by Guy Kawasaki & Peg Fitzpatrick. (Penguin, December 2014 – available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle ebook. Prices
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It’s the second acquisition of 2015: Huron buys Sky Analytics

It’s the second acquisition of 2015: Huron buys Sky Analytics

It’s the second acquisition of the week and the second acquisition of the New Year… Huron Consulting Group last night announced the company had acquired Sky Analytics Inc, a Massachusetts-based provider
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Ediscovery Comment: Want to reduce your eDiscovery costs? Stop hoarding data!

Ediscovery Comment: Want to reduce your eDiscovery costs? Stop hoarding data!

by Lee Meyrick, Director of Information Management at Nuix Finding an important document is no longer as simple as heading to the filing cabinet, looking for the right colour-coded label and
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Scottish legal IT deals: Your Conveyancer goes with Visualfiles

Scottish legal IT deals: Your Conveyancer goes with Visualfiles

Your Conveyancer, Scotland’s only volume conveyancing services firm dedicated solely to the financial services and property sectors, is implementing Lexis Visualfiles 2014 from LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions. Visualfiles 2014 will substantially
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Coole & Haddock invests in the future with SOS Connect

Coole & Haddock invests in the future with SOS Connect

Sussex law firm Coole &Haddock has signed up to SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software (SOS) as part of its ongoing organic growth plans. With offices in Horsham and Worthing,
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Is this the legal IT “marketing funnel” ?

Is this the legal IT “marketing funnel” ?

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Fortune Manning sees Cloud as the future

Fortune Manning sees Cloud as the future

Fortune Manning, an Auckland (NZ) based firm of 50 staff specialising in insurance litigation, as well as commercial and private client practices, chooses BigHand digital dictation as part of a
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Acquisitions ahoy as NetDocuments buys the Decisiv email business from Recommind

Acquisitions ahoy as NetDocuments buys the Decisiv email business from Recommind

NetDocuments today announced the acquisition of Decisiv Email from Recommind. This acquisition includes Decisiv Email’s development team as well as the technology. Decisiv Email is a mature, enterprise-grade email management solution
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And the first legal IT win of 2015 goes to HighQ in at Steptoe & Johnson

And the first legal IT win of 2015 goes to HighQ in at Steptoe & Johnson

US 500+ attorney law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP has chosen HighQ Collaborate as their internal collaboration, client extranet and file sharing platform. Steptoe sought an out-of-the-box platform to replace
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Riverview & Liverpool Uni in AI partnership – we’re doomed!

Riverview & Liverpool Uni in AI partnership – we’re doomed!

Riverview Law, the fixed priced legal services business, has entered into a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of Liverpool designed to leverage the University’s Artificial Intelligence expertise in
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Successfully Deploying DirectAccess in the Legal Industry Webinar

Successfully Deploying DirectAccess in the Legal Industry Webinar

Microsoft DirectAccess is a remote access technology that is best described as an automatic VPN. Wherever a user takes their DirectAccess enabled device, as soon as they have internet access,
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Autonomy Software User Forum Meetup – IDOL 10 what’s new and is it worth upgrading?

Autonomy Software User Forum Meetup – IDOL 10 what’s new and is it worth upgrading?

Date: Tuesday 27th January, 2015 Time: 6.30 – 9.00pm Venue: Finch’s Bar, 12A Finsbury Square EC2A 1AN, London We would like to invite you to our first Autonomy Software User
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Something for the Legal IT Weekend: It was 30 years ago today

Something for the Legal IT Weekend: It was 30 years ago today

It was 30 years ago this week that the first commercial cellphone call was made in the UK. The handsets would go on sale a few weeks later following a promotion headed
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Have Some Free Holiday Reading on Us !

Have Some Free Holiday Reading on Us !

Keeping up with our Holidays-themed posts, we’ve got an ebooks offer for you today… Between now and the New Year, two of Charles Christian’s SFF&H (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
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