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Something for the Weekend: social media tips for beginners part #97

Something for the Weekend: social media tips for beginners part #97

As part of our ongoing mission to inform (and entertain) here are some tips for law firms and legal IT vendors on the perils of using modern technologies, such websites
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Startup Friday: CosmoLex offering 15% Cloud discount till end of month

Startup Friday: CosmoLex offering 15% Cloud discount till end of month

New Jersey-based legal IT startup CosmoLex, which formally launched its Cloud-based legal billing and trust accounting system for solos and small firms at the ABA TechShow in late March, is
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Comment: APTs pose rising security threat to law firms

Comment: APTs pose rising security threat to law firms

by Seth Berman* In the UK, the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) latest Risk Outlook update has for the first time identified cybercrime as a threat to law firms. Describing such
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Latest UK & US New Product Launches & Upgrades

Latest UK & US New Product Launches & Upgrades

We’ve got an interesting mixture on new product launches and upgrades today including software to build marketing pitches from Iphelion + Google Calendar integration from LexisNexis + digital signature enhancements
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Legal Industry Video Awards – Entry #27: Getting to know the PayneGroup

Legal Industry Video Awards – Entry #27: Getting to know the PayneGroup

Only a couple more weeks left until the closing deadline for submissions. In the meantime here’s our 27th submission to the Legal Industry Video Awards. This has been entered by
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Case Study: Levenfeld Pearlstein use Handshake Software for SharePoint Project

Case Study: Levenfeld Pearlstein use Handshake Software for SharePoint Project

Here’s a new case study from Handshake Software on the way Chicago-based law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein used Handshake products and services in a SharePoint portal and intranet project. Levenfeld Pearlstein
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Tuesday Afternoon Movie: The Cloud’s the Limit

Tuesday Afternoon Movie: The Cloud’s the Limit

The people at e-know.net were keen to gauge the latest views and thinking on how client experience is changing in the legal sector and how cloud computing can help so
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Thomson Reuters Elite announces Workspace – new workflow platform provides firmwide access to technology tools through Web & Mobile App

Thomson Reuters Elite announces Workspace – new workflow platform provides firmwide access to technology tools through Web & Mobile App

Thomson Reuters Elite today announced the launch of Workspace, an innovative new integration platform that enables clients to access a range of Elite solutions and third-party products from both desktop
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US, UK & EMEA Legal IT & Ediscovery Channel News

US, UK & EMEA Legal IT & Ediscovery Channel News

Time for another round-up on vendor channel news, this week featuring LOASys + DPS Software – Access Technologies + Databarracks – Phoenix Business Solutions + HP Autonomy – Worldox +
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Whatever happened to Internet Explorer?

Whatever happened to Internet Explorer?

Interesting chart showing the current state of the browser wars with one-time market leader Internet Explorer now largely confined to the
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Legal Industry Video Awards – Entry #26: Promoting Law Firms to Graduates

Legal Industry Video Awards – Entry #26: Promoting Law Firms to Graduates

Here’s our 26th submission to the Legal Industry Video Awards. This has been entered by Simmons & Simmons to promote the benefits of a career in a law firm to
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Book Review: Law Firm Marketing – Down among the Clown Fish!

Book Review: Law Firm Marketing – Down among the Clown Fish!

That’s it, we can all go home now, Kim Tasso has just written the definitive guide to law firm marketing and business development. Called Rainmakers and Trailblazers: a practical step-by-step
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Linklaters spend analytics webinar – Rosslyn Analytics

Linklaters spend analytics webinar – Rosslyn Analytics

Webinar: Join Linklaters and learn how to turn spend visibility into savings and higher profit per partner Whilst procurement teams might have a grasp on what is being spent and
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UK Events News: Alternative Legal IT + ILTA

UK Events News: Alternative Legal IT + ILTA

Two pieces of UK legal IT events news for your diary, as these currently look to be the only major shows this autumn… • The Alternative Legal IT Conference, the
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Gadget of the Week: ChargeKey & ChargeCard USB cables

Gadget of the Week: ChargeKey & ChargeCard USB cables

Great new gadget here from San Francisco startup* Nomad (www.hellonomad.com) – it’s a portable USB cable for charging or syncing a smartphone/tablet that takes the form of either a credit
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War Stories: Who’s been using my WiFi ?

War Stories: Who’s been using my WiFi ?

True story… the managing partner of a regional firm had broadband installed at their home so they could run a home-office from there. And, as part of the setup, there
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Comment: Conflict of Laws and the Absurdity of Data Protection in the 21st Century

Comment: Conflict of Laws and the Absurdity of Data Protection in the 21st Century

by Ben Weinberger* In a recent proceeding before the U.S. Court, Microsoft was ordered to turn-over email belonging to a user of its hosted mail service. That email belonged to
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