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LEGAL TECHNOLOGY Insider Issue 83 £6.00 CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER THE SOURCE FOR INDEPENDENT LEGAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS VAZ WARNS ON NET WINDOWS 2000 SET FOR OCTOBER ? CONTENT CONCERNS Microsoft has confirmed that its long In a speech at the opening of last week’s SOLEX exhibition, awaited Windows 2000 operating system Keith Vaz MP, the new parliamentary secretary at the Lord (previously known as NT 5.0) is now on Chancellor’s Department (LCD), warned of the need for target for a 6th October release date. But, “safeguards and regulation” to control the development of given the added distraction of Y2K, is any online legal services being offered to the general public. there any point in migrating to Windows According to Vaz “While almost everyone agrees that it 2000 in the closing weeks of this year? would be useful to place more legal information on the The answer is probably “no”. In fact Web, a number of respondents to the LCD’s civil.justice some US IT analysts are already warning Continued on page 2 that if this system is anything like other new Microsoft products, it will effectively be little more than a final beta release SUN FAILS TO SHINE ON SOLEX that users will have to test for unrecorded It may have been the sunniest three days of the year but a bugs. Perhaps more importantly, it is dark cloud hung over the Barbican centre in London last also worth noting that the Windows week where exhibitors were complaining of the most poorly 2000 Data Centre edition, which is being attended ever Solicitors & Legal Office Exhibition (SOLEX). touted by Microsoft as the high-end Some blamed the downturn in the legal systems market scalability and reliability Unix-killer in the run-up to Y2K but most blamed Imark, the owners version of the OS - will not be available of the event, for inadequate publicity and a jaded format. until at least February 2000. Michael Belas of Avenue Legal described it as “not a 4 Microsoft also says it is planning to complete disaster” but with Avenue’s “lead count” down by launch a 64-bit version of the operating 60 percent on the previous year, he felt “let down” by system in the final quarter of next year. Imark. Solicitec’s Juliana Ewin said that on Tuesday she This will take advantage of the 64-bit gave just four system demos whereas in previous years she architecture of the new Intel Merced would have given more than that in the first hour. Paul processor chip that is due to be released Mankoo of IGL said there were not even “tyre-kickers” this in June 2000. year. And Equitrac’s Rupert Murray said three days at Royal Ascot would have generated more business leads. Imark event manager Nicola Bateman admits there were problems, largely inherited from the show’s former owners INSIDER LAUNCHES Truemist, and that it could take three years for the event VIRUS ALERT SERVICE to pull around. However she is confident the innovations The Legal Technology Insider web portal being planned, including new branding, a new floor plan, now provides access a new Hoax, Bug & an earlier date (16th to 18th May) and new show features, Virus Alert service for lawyers worried by with more seminars and product presentation facilities, reports of software bugs and Internet will re-establish SOLEX as the UK’s leading legal IT event. viruses. Along with coverage of the new Bateman says she is committed to ongoing consultation Worm.ExploreZip (or ZippedFile) virus, with exhibitors about further improvements but in the the service will also provide guidance on meantime Avenue Legal, Elliott Slone, Solicitec, Pilgrim, whether some of the virus warnings in DPS, Equitrac and Technology for Business have all said circulation are genuine or just hoaxes. they have serious concerns about returning to SOLEX. The service is free and provides links to a 4 Attendance figures have still to be finalised by Imark but range of bug and virus web resources. third-party estimates suggest SOLEX will be lucky to have 4 Visit the Insider web portal for last seen 3000 visitors this year and it could be less than 2000, minute news, additional services and a huge drop on 1997’s all time record of 6600 visitors. sources of information. SOLEX new product launches - see Page 5 http://www.legaltechnology.co.uk Page 1 Wednesday 23 June 1999 Legal Technology Insider http://www.legaltechnology.co.uk PEOPLE AND PLACES PEAPOD BUYS 4 Accounts software specialist SAGE has created a new “time tracking STRONGBOX SYSTEM professional services group” to provide Peapod Solutions, best known for PRINTAForm electronic training, implementation database legal forms and as a distributor of the Osprey accounts design and consultancy services for law system, has acquired the rights to the Windows version of firms using its CARPE DIEM system. Jim Strachan’s Strongbox accounts software for sole http://www.timetracking.com practitioners and very small law firms. A 16-bit version is already available and a new 32-bit version - STRONGBox 4 NABARRO NATHANSON is sponsoring 2000 - will begin shipping in the autumn. Prices start at the 1999 Thames Valley IT Awards, for IT £975 for a single cashier version. The deal does not affect companies based in the Swindon-Slough users of the DOS version of Strongbox, who will continue corridor. For an entry form contact Elissa to be supported by Jim Strachan’s own company. Simpson at Nabarro’s Reading office. The awards will be announced in November. [email protected] VAZ WARNS ON NET CONTENT Continued from front page 4 The NAT WEST banking group has consultation paper had made the point that there would become the new co-sponsor of The be a need to be a validation of web sites and to provide Lawyer magazine’s annual awards. some form of quality control. Formerly known as the Lawyer/HIFAL “I am sure that we are all familiar with the downside of awards, last year’s winners included the Internet: its lack of regulation enables the dishonest, LOVELL WHITE DURRANT for “Best use the misinformed, and anyone with an axe to grind to set of IT” and LINKLATERS, who won the up web sites full of false information. We would need to be “Innovation Award” for its Blue Flag very careful to find a way of letting the public know which service. The Insider will carry the 1999 sites they can trust and ensure there is a way to protect results in the next issue. confidential information. I can give you an assurance that those concerns will be addressed.” 4 US paralegal and training The minister also went on to say: “It is important to consultancy ULTRACORP is for sale. For emphasise that online services will never replace the work details phone + 323 936 6461. done by professionals in complex situations. Rather, such [email protected] services should be seen as complementing the work of legal advice providers. Easy to use, easy to access information, 4 The AIM HOLDINGS group, the parent in simple language, could help people to understand their of legal systems supplier AIM, has rights and show them how to enforce them.” reported healthy results for the trading Turning to the Community Legal Service Consultation year to 30th April 1999. Turnover Paper, which was issued by the LCD at the end of May, Vaz increased by 13 percent from £8.3 million said it was envisaged a Community Legal Service web site, to £9.4 million, while operating profits scheduled to be launched early in the year 2000, would act increased by nearly 300 percent from as a “first port of call” for people seeking legal information £281,000 to £1.03 million. The strong advice and assistance via the Internet. positive cash flow has allowed AIM to “Initially the web site will signpost users to advice redeem £350,000 of loan stock and leave services and provide links to existing online information, the balance sheet free of debt. The co-ordinating access to avoid the lengthy hit and miss company has cash reserves of £900,000 searching that is currently required. From this foundation,” and an order book equivalent to six said Vaz, “it is envisaged that the site will be expanded to months’ work. include further information and interactive guidance, taking advantage of advances in technology to develop a 4 Long-time legal IT market specialist virtual legal advice network”. ALLAN HODKINSON has been appointed 4 Copies of the Community Legal Service Consultation the managing director of SANDERSON Paper (CP5/99) can be obtained by phoning 020 7210 SYSTEMS, part of the publicly quoted 0733/1325. The text is also available on the LCD web site. Sanderson group. Allan will continue in http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd his role as director for legal systems but Responses should be sent by 30th July 1999 to Nick Hunt will also become more involved in other at the LCD’s Community Legal Service Division. market sectors targeted by the company. [email protected] Page 2 Wednesday 23 June 1999 http://www.legaltechnology.uk Legal Technology Insider CAMERON FORMS SON DEALS AND TENDERS 4 Sixty-user RICHMONDS, with offices OF KPMG CONSULTANCY in Worksop, Doncaster and Retford, has Leading legal IT consultant and former Society for just gone live with a new Windows NT Computers & Law chairman Neil Cameron has teamed up practice management system supplied by with six other consultants to form the Neil Cameron Legal NORWEL. Although the firm had already Technology Consultancy (0973 165130).
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