Legal IT Professionals

US and UK members and judges to share thoughts on technology, e-disclosure and compliance

Women in eDiscovery, a non-profit organization that brings together women interested in technology related to the legal industry, today announced that it will host an interactive educational session at Legal IQ’s fifth annual Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit in London. The conference will be held at the Dexter House, Tower Hill, London on May 18-19. Women in eDiscovery co-founder, Shawnna Childress, and Director of the London Group, Laura Kelly, will host a two-part interactive educational session that delves into developments in the law and practice of disclosure and the application of technologies that effectively reduce costs and assist with compliance as it pertains to litigation.

Additional 132 Terabytes of data storage yields nearly 50% increase in DTI’s total capacity

Document Technologies, Inc. (DTI), the nation’s largest independent provider of legal support services and document outsourcing, announced today the addition of 132 Terabytes of storage from BlueArc® Corporation to support DTI’s growing e-discovery service offering. The expansion represents an almost 50 percent increase in total data storage space at the company’s National Technology Center in Atlanta.

Users fine new application helpful in monitoring contracts and other deadlines

Legal Files Software Inc., a leading case and matter management software company, has created a new notification service application that monitors user-defined dates and deadlines and sends email notifications for any number of key dates or milestones, which provides users an improved way to handle important follow up on contracts and matters.

Enables Corporations and Law Firms to Bring eDiscovery In-House with Framework for Cloud Computing Security, Privacy, Control, Risk and Cost

CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery, today announced the blueprint for cloud-based eDiscovery. The blueprint provides corporations and law firms with an evaluation framework for eDiscovery security, privacy, control, risk and cost practices when considering cloud-based eDiscovery. 

Nabarro LLP deploys the BigHand for BlackBerry® Dictation App to 460 lawyers

BigHand, the leading voice productivity vendor in the global legal community, has today announced that Top-30 law firm Nabarro LLP has deployed BigHand for BlackBerry® smartphones to 460 lawyers in one of the largest deployments of a BlackBerry dictation application globally. The BigHand for BlackBerry deployment will enable lawyers to get more tasks done when working remotely, enhance client service and is part of a firm-wide refresh of mobile devices that is expected to reduce costs by up to 40%.

Enoch Evans Solicitors have recently selected Lawsoft from Pilgrim Systems as a complete solution to replace its existing SolCase and Miles 33, Case Management and Practice Management systems.

Enoch Evans Solicitors is one of the largest and oldest Firms in the West Midlands, offering a wide range of commercial and private client services to its clients.  Enoch Evans provides specialist advice in the area of corporate and commercial law as well as commercial and domestic property, dispute resolution, private client and regulatory offences.

Popular Ignite format to focus on future of law practice

LexThink LLC, a legal innovation consultancy, and InsideLegal.com, the insider’s guide to doing business in legal technology, today announced Ignite Law, a three hour, interactive and thought-provoking mind-sharing event focused on the future of law practice. Ignite Law, being held at Chicago’s Hilton on March 24, 7:00-10PM, will feature 10-15 six-minute presentations given by the legal industry’s leading minds and innovators. 

New completely updated Clio calendar features improved shared calendaring, additional viewing options, drag & drop editing and faster performance

Vancouver-based Themis Solutions Inc. announced today that it has introduced a newly enhanced Clio Calendar within Clio (www.goclio.com), its cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) practice management product for solo attorneys and small law firms.  Rebuilt from the ground-up, the new Clio Calendar offers a substantial upgrade over the previous calendar that has been an integral part of Clio since its launch on October 1, 2008.

Workspaces. They’ve been around for quite a while and I’ve thought about doing a post on what they are since starting the blog. The aim being to try and easily explain the concept of workspaces and libraries within the Autonomy iManage WorkSite document management system (DMS). So basically removing the tech speak and explaining what they are in “real life” terms. I was going to title this post “The Dummies guide to Workspaces”, but apart from possibly getting sued for copyright infringement I figured the concept of Workspaces and libraries are terms that to be fair aren’t that easy to grasp. So, here it is. Let me know in the comments if it hits the mark.

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New application makes it easy to quickly compare spreadsheets for changes and accuracy

Workshare, the global leader in document comparison software, today launches Workshare Compare for Excel and Workshare Compare Basic for Excel, two versions of a software application to compare and identify changes made to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This new product joins Workshare's portfolio of application comparison software - the newly introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint and its flagship Workshare Professional for Microsoft Word and PDF.

Creator of best Authority® table of authorities software accepted to Microsoft’s most elite program

Legal software company Levit & James, Inc. has been promoted to Microsoft Gold Partner Status.  Gold Certified Partners hold the highest level of competence and expertise working with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.