This month we interviewed Simon Hill and Mark Garnish (TikitTFB). They talk about the financial crisis, SaaS, the iPad and more. News menu
iEnvision Technology and Ascertus Limited Form Strategic Alliance
30 July 2010
iEnvision Technology, Inc., a leading technology services and consulting company, and Ascertus Limited, a premier supplier of software business tools to corporate in-house legal departments, law firms, and other professional services organizations, today announced a strategic alliance to more effectively service their law firm and corporate legal clients who have offices both in Europe and in the US.
New Client Development Specialists Bring 20 Years of Legal Technology Expertise to Client Profiles
29 July 2010
With a combined 20 years of business development experience in the legal technology industry, Karen Clifford and David Grabner bring expert insights to Client Profiles after joining the company as regional sales managers.
"Karen and David have each spent the last decade working closely with law firms across the country," said Dave Hutchinson, executive vice president of sales and marketing. "Their solid past performances and in-depth knowledge of the services our clients need make them the perfect new additions to our growing team."
Legal IT Professionals welcomes new columnist
29 July 2010
Legal IT Professionals is proud to announce that Jan Berinstein has agreed to join the panel of colmnists. Jan Berinstein, Ph.D. runs her own software-training company, CompuSavvy Computer Training & Consulting, which caters to the legal profession. Over the past 15 years, she has trained staff at numerous law firms, government agencies, corporate legal departments, and various other organizations throughout California. Via her company, she teaches computer lab classes as well, most of which are tailored for lawyers, legal secretaries, and paralegals. She provides her training clients and her students with copious handouts that she writes herself.
Am Law 20 Firm Revolutionizes Information Access With Recommind’s MindServer Search
29 July 2010
Firm Uses Industry’s Leading Enterprise Search Platform to Provide Employees with Instant, Accurate Access to Information
Recommind, the leader in search-powered information management solutions for enterprises and law firms, today announced that a leading global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 12 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia has selected MindServer™ Search to power its knowledge management needs.
The Skemp Partnership Solicitors Selects LexisNexis Solutions to Comply with MoJ’s RTA PI Claims Reform
29 July 2010
Personal injury firm to reduce claims processing time by a third, grow claims handling volume by more than 65% a month
LexisNexis® UK, a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions including legal enterprise software, today announced that personal injury practice The Skemp Partnership Solicitors has selected LexisNexis® Visualfiles® case and matter management system and LexisNexis® PIP Broker, a cross platform application-to-application interface module, to comply with the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) Road Traffic Accident (RTA) Personal Injury (PI) claims reforms, reduce operational costs and grow its business.
Legal Industry Veteran Colleen Freeman Joins Document Technologies
28 July 2010
Document Technologies, Inc. (DTI), the nation’s largest independent provider of comprehensive discovery and onsite facilities management services, is pleased to announce that attorney and legal support services industry veteran Colleen Freeman has joined the company as a senior manager of client services for DTI’s Boston office. In this newly created role, Ms. Freeman is responsible for leading DTI’s effort to expand its market share in the Northeast e-discovery and litigation consulting market.
Accola Launches DMS4Legal to the North American Market
28 July 2010
Company brings first document management system to the legal industry powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Accola, a legal technology and IT services company, today announced the release of Epona’s DMS4Legal to the North American legal industry. DMS4Legal brings the first document management system powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010® to law firms across the U.S. The product was first released in Europe in early 2010 and has garnered much interest from firms for the functionality and capabilities it adds to their practices.
Bridging the Gap Between Legal and IT (Part 1)
28 July 2010
Legal discovery, or ediscovery, has become a normal business process in most organizations. Perhaps not as frequently used as a sales force automation tool, but at times perhaps more important. With increasingly demanding rules for legal discovery and production, there is a critical need for what is becoming a near constant proactive review of the information held within the enterprise. Given the exploding amount of information and the growing number of sources where business information can reside, the legal discovery business process is now much more than a “sideline” activity that can be run from some small scale appliance under the desk of a legal professional.
Microsoft Worldwide Conference Closes With Multiple Honors for Client Profiles
28 July 2010
The partnership between Client Profiles and Microsoft Dynamics has been highly successful for both companies, a fact that was on display at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. In front of a crowd of 14,000 people, Client Profiles' president and CEO Whit McIsaac took the stage to accept the 2010 Partner of the Year in Professional Services award. This is the second year in a row that the company has earned that distinction, an accomplishment that only a handful of companies achieve.
TikitTFB to replace BBE Iris AIM system with complete case and practice management solution
28 July 2010
Barker Booth & Eastwood, a long established firm of solicitors based in the North West, has chosen TikitTFB as their official solutions partner to replace their existing IRIS AIM Evolution Accounts system and introduce a comprehensive case and document management system firm-wide.
The 50 user system will be deployed in phases with the accounts and desktop components scheduled to go-live during September. The second phase will concentrate on developing the case management system including the creation of caseflows for their Personal Injury and Conveyancing departments, and is expected to be completed before the end of the year.
4th Legal Technology Exchange
28 July 2010
Legal IT Professionals selected as Media Partner
As legal executives work to comply with increased regulation and reduce cost for the department they are scrutinizing budgets, re-defining vendor relationships and implementing new technology to better manage workflow and data. Join a selection of your most respected peers at the 4th Legal Technology Exchange, October 3-5, to develop a new approach to technology planning that will bolster your organization's legal department with more pointed use of technology.
"The UK Legal market is certainly not a leader in Social Networking but one or two firms are using some of the tools such as Linkedin, Blogs, Twitter and a couple are experimenting with Facebook as a consumer facing marketing tool. " 
"Make it Great. Yes, that’s the vanilla marketing tagline Microsoft came up with for promoting Office 2010. This begs the question that’s on legal IT’s collective mind these days: is 2010 actually great, or is it chaos and misery stuffed into a shrink-wrapped box?" 
"CIOs of 2020 are going to have to step up their game in leadership. Information is not the sole property of the IT department. Leading and consulting to the practices and administrative functions of the firm will become more and more important. There is too much potential and too much money at play for a CIO not to be involved at the highest levels of strategic business management of the firm." 
