Legal IT Professionals

Combination of Technologies Handles eDiscovery Identification Through Production

Index Engines, the leader in enterprise discovery solutions, today announced a partnership with Venio Systems. This partnership brings best of breed technology together to provide customers and service partners with a cost effective end-to-end solution for eDiscovery following the electronic discovery reference model (EDRM).

Steve Couling board appointment adds international business development experience

LDM Global, a premier provider of international document management and eDiscovery solutions, has today announced the promotion of Steve Couling to its board of directors. Steve joined LDM Global as the Head of Global Sales in February 09.

Chris O’Reilly, President of LDM Global, stated “We are excited to have Steve on our board of directors as he has played a key role in focusing the company to further develop our global business. He has helped us build exclusive customer relationships to deliver world class service”.

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.

BigHand Creates Dedicated Client Services Function to Ensure Award-Winning Service Levels Are Maintained as Growth Continues

BigHand, the leading voice productivity vendor in the professional services and public sector community, has today announced that it has appointed Stephen Brown as Client Services Director of a newly formed Client Services Division. The creation of the division comes as BigHand looks to ensure that the high service levels and client care for which the company is renowned are maintained as growth in number of clients continues.

Award-winning communications business and online marketing platform provider Vuture has signed a multi-region distribution deal with LexisNexis covering the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific and Latin America. As a result of the alliance, customers of LexisNexis’s market-leading InterAction®  Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software will gain access to Vuture’s Vx suite of online marketing tools. The two systems will be fully integrated, allowing users to combine the capabilities of Vuture’s Vx suite of online marketing tools with the ability to read and write information from InterAction in real time.

Enhanced Mailbox Recovery Management Tool Offers Unique Migration Path and Complete Support for Primary, Archive and Recoverable E-mail

Kroll Ontrack®, the leading provider of information management and legal technologies products and services, today announced the availability of Ontrack® PowerControls™ version 6.0. Providing complete support for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010, the enhanced tool offers primary mailbox, Personal Archive and Recoverable Items mailbox management functionality, as well as an efficient migration path to Exchange 2010, allowing IT administrators to significantly reduce the time and resources required to search, identify, copy, restore and export data from the increasingly robust messaging platform.

ProLaw has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Network with a competency in Data Management Solutions, including special certification for SQL Server 2008. This validates ProLaw’s success in design, implementation and delivery of infrastructure, security and server-based solutions for small and mid-size law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage.

Business Process Management recognized for being essential to Knowledge Management

Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced its inclusion for the seventh straight year in KMWorld Magazine’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.” This annual list is compiled through discussions with practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues, and will be featured in KMWorld’s March 2010 print issue.

Law Technology News ‘Dictation System’ Gold Award Winner Launches Latest Iteration of BigHand for BlackBerry® Software

BigHand, the leading voice productivity vendor in the professional services and public sector community, has today launched the latest iteration of its award-winning BigHand for BlackBerry® Dictation App, first released in May 2007. The launch moves BigHand further ahead of its competition in terms of BlackBerry® device support, ensures BigHand software remains the easiest digital dictation product to administer on the market, and allows unrestricted individual dictation length (meaning a BlackBerry can now match a professional dictation device in terms of individual and total recording capacity).

Legal Files Software, Inc. was selected to provide its leading case and office management software to the University of Notre Dame’s Office of General Counsel. The University selected the web/browser-based version of Legal Files for its integration features, as well as the ability to access its data from any location.

The web/browser-based version of Legal Files is available to users from any location with an Internet connection, which was a key factor in the University’s decision to purchase the software. The members of the legal department appreciated that their team would have anytime/anywhere access to all their matter-related data and documents.

Jumpstarts 2010 with Several Product Introductions

ADERANT, a global provider of business, financial, and information management software for law firms, announced today that the company finished 2009 with strong overall performance.  The company added more than twenty new clients last year, successfully implemented or migrated dozens of firms, and maintained exceptional client service levels.

“I am very pleased with our performance in 2009, especially considering the soft economy,” said Michael Kohlsdorf, President and Chief Executive Officer for ADERANT.  “By continuing our focus on what law firms and professional services organisations want—advanced products, world-class service, and timely implementations—we were able to grow our business and increase our profitability. 

IntApp, Inc., the leading provider of integration, risk management and time capture software for law firms, and Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced that their long-standing partnership continues to pay dividends for their joint law firm clients.