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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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Elite continues its Bonfire of Vanities as Envision aka LawSoft now gets the chop

Elite continues its Bonfire of Vanities as Envision aka LawSoft now gets the chop

Last week it was Engage, this week it is the mid-tier, mid-law Elite Envision product (better known to UK readers as the old Pilgrim LawSoft system) that is being tossed onto
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A Christmas Legal IT Mystery: The Strange Case of the Car Park that Never Froze

A Christmas Legal IT Mystery: The Strange Case of the Car Park that Never Froze

Not quite a Christmas ghost story but a mystery all the same… A few years ago there was a UK legal software vendor called Mountain (this was long before they were
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All change at the top for Tikit

All change at the top for Tikit

Tikit just announced that Katherine Ainley, currently director of Client Services and Transformation at Tikit will succeed Tim Springham, as CEO when he retires on December 31, 2014. Katherine joined Tikit
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There’s an app for it – going Fine Dining over the Holiday Season ?

There’s an app for it – going Fine Dining over the Holiday Season ?

  OK, this is stretching the legal IT angle a little but today’s app – FineDiner – was conceived and designed by leading legal IT and management consultant Neil Cameron. As
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As Elite prepare to dis-Engage, Prosperoware prepare to Prosper

As Elite prepare to dis-Engage, Prosperoware prepare to Prosper

With Thomson Reuters Elite now in the throes of disengaging itself from it Engage legal process management application (see timescale below) one of the first challengers coming out of the
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NetDocuments ‘fess up to cloud DMS titsup

NetDocuments ‘fess up to cloud DMS titsup

NetDocuments has published details of its recent service outage which shut down its cloud-based DMS services for about 40 minutes earlier this month. The FAQs also discuss some other recent outages,
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Talking Tech with Charles Christian: Time Recording #5 with Kaye Sycamore of Intapp

Talking Tech with Charles Christian: Time Recording #5 with Kaye Sycamore of Intapp

Welcome to the fifth and final episode in our new video series Talking Tech with Charles Christian. The theme for this series is Time Recording/Time Capture Technology for Law Firms and this week we
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That Microsoft “Dublin cloud” data sovereignty case: now major tech companies add their support

That Microsoft “Dublin cloud” data sovereignty case: now major tech companies add their support

Here’s a link to a technology law story worth reading as five major US tech players file amicus briefs supporting Microsoft in its standoff with against the US Government over
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Christmas? Meh! It’s beginning to feel a lot like business as usual with 3 new deals

Christmas? Meh! It’s beginning to feel a lot like business as usual with 3 new deals

No sign of a Christmas slowdown here, with 3 UK legal IT vendors – Peppermint Technology – Eclipe Legal Systems – Linetime – all announcing new deals this morning…  
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Legal IT Christmas #1 Christmas Cards

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Legal IT Christmas #1 Christmas Cards

Good corporate Christmas cards seem a lost art now however one exception is UK law firm Lewis Silkin which has year-after-year consistently delivers an amusing and on topic card. This
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Leading New Zealand law firm to go with Aderant

Leading New Zealand law firm to go with Aderant

Aderant announced today that one of New Zealand’s leading law firms, McVeagh Fleming, will deploy the Aderant Expert practice and financial management system across the firm. With the move to Aderant
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New White Paper: BI in the Legal Sector

New White Paper: BI in the Legal Sector

Interesting white paper here from the people at C24 on the use of BI in the Legal Sector, based on their experiences with law firms like Wright Hassall and others. BI
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NetDocuments to replace OpenText at Dykema

NetDocuments to replace OpenText at Dykema

The progression of OpenText from legal DMS market-leader to basket-case continues with today’s news the AmLaw 200 and Insider Global 200 firm Dykema has selected NetDocuments to replace it current on-premises
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Well its only the taxpayers’ money part #97

Well its only the taxpayers’ money part #97

Here’s another interesting link, this time from the BBC reporting on a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report into UK government outsourcing. Feel free to be outraged when you
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Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Dublin datacenter case

Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Dublin datacenter case

We ran this story on Twitter yesterday and given the interest it generated, we’re reproducing it here as an embedded link…   Microsoft files its appeal in the Dublin datacentre
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The November/December Legal IT Insider newsletter out now – get it here FREE!

The November/December Legal IT Insider newsletter out now – get it here FREE!

Welcome to the latest issue of the Legal IT Insider newsletter (November/December 2014 # 278) • You can also download the digital edition (it is a 3.1 Mb PDF file) FREE of charge HERE TOP STORIES INCLUDE:
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