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Issue 74 £6.00 Issue 74 £6.00 CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER THE SOURCE FOR INDEPENDENT LEGAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS BUTTERWORTHS AND LAW SOC SUPPLIER “INUNDATED” BT IN LEGAL ONLINE Alan Roberts, who now heads sales and marketing activities for Amicus Attorney SERVICE ALLIANCE and Solace Millennium, one of the five Butterworths and BT have formed an alliance to develop a “recognised supplier” solutions listed in new online legal information and communications service the English Law Society’s new Software for the legal sector. Solutions Guide, says his company has The move follows nationwide market research and been “totally inundated” with inquires meetings with focus groups, which BT says has identified and new orders since the scheme was an unmet demand among small to medium-sized law firms launched at the end of November. for a bundle of services that would take them into the According to Roberts, Amicus “next generation” of legal know-how and communications, distributor Gavel & Gown received over as well as help them keep pace with some of the services 500 inquiries during the first four weeks City firms are now able to offer their clients. of the scheme’s operation and these are Top priority on the focus group “wish lists” was a secure being converted into sales at an electronic document exchange service. Next in line was a “unprecedented rate”. single point of access to a variety of legal information, such Gavel & Gown has moved offices, the as commentary, statute and case law resources, closely new phone number is 01780 766661. followed by standard forms and templates. Then came LINK-type online conferencing for special interest groups, followed by electronic document archiving and storage. All these elements are now being brought together in a CHADWICK FILE WEB new service, to be called “Legalconnect” (previously code CASE DEFENCE named Project Eagle), that is currently in the final stages of Dewsbury law firm Chadwick Lawrence development by Butterworths and BT. has filed a defence in the copyright action Key elements of the package will commence two being brought against it by award months of field testing with a number of firms in Leeds and winning software developer NKT. London in February, with a view to a nationwide launch of NKT alleges the Dewsbury solicitors the full Legalconnect service during the second quarter of copied and used “substantial parts” of 1999. Pricing details for the subscription-based service the source code NKT had developed for the have still to be finalised. UKLAW.NET interactive internet system. In its defence, Chadwick Lawrence 1 COMMENT admits copying some code but denies Although the prospects of the increasingly impressive E-docs liability for copyright infringement on the electronic document exchange service should not be under- grounds of “de minimis” (the dispute rated, this field could still turn into a one horse race. resolves around one specific line of code) Butterworths is streets ahead of its competition in terms of and the argument that the content of both the content and delivery of legal materials in a digital web sites are in the public domain. format, while BT is already delivering comparable services into other specialist markets. The electronic document exchange service will be based on 128-bit encryption. THE INSIDER WEB SITE Visit the Legal Technology Insider web site for up to the minute news and Y2K - ONLY 234 DAYS TO GO hyperlinks to additional information. There are now only 234 working days to go until the Regular surfers should note the site’s commercial world grinds to a halt on Christmas Eve. Will domain name has changed so you will your practice be open for business on 4th January 2000? need to alter any bookmarked URLs. More Year 2000 news on pages 6 & 7 http://www.legaltechnology.co.uk Page 1 Wednesday 27 January 1999 Legal Technology Insider http://www.legaltechnology.co.uk LONGBRIDGE HEAD HATTON BLUE LOOK TO HUNT HEADHUNTERS Recruitment consultancy Longbridge NEW RELATIONSHIPS International has headhunted the entire Back in September, the Insider reported on the emergence staff of the Hong Kong office of American of “relationship management” as one of the hottest new headhunters Stanton Chase. Anton concepts in the US law office technology market, where Webb, formerly head of Stanton Chase products such as Interface Software’s InterAction system Hong Kong, has now become managing are making major inroads into the “AMLaw Top 100” director of Longbridge’s Asia-Pacific largest legal practices. operations. Since then, both Lovell White Durrant and Berwin Leighton in London have placed orders for the InterAction system. And now Hatton Blue has entered the market with ON THE ROAD AGAIN a home-grown “CRM” (customer relationship management) Kirsty McDonald, Solace’s long time system to compete against the American challenge. marketing manager until last summer The Hatton Blue offering is based around the company’s when she quit to join Data Management Vectus case management engine and is being previewed at Associates in Wales, has moved on again a series of seminars at the Savoy Hotel in London on 11th and is now believed to be negotiating a February and 11th March. To book a place contact Joanna role with another legal systems supplier. Kilbride of Hatton Blue on: 01789 470489. Data Management Associates has privately admitted that its attempts to enter the English legal systems market, with its new Sentinel case and document THE BATTLE OF THE RUBBER management product, have so far met CHICKEN CIRCUIT with little success. The product was Greater love hath no chicken that it will lay down its life to launched at the GMEX exhibition in provide drumsticks for a buffet lunch. This certainly seems Manchester in October 1998. to be the order of the day in the increasingly competitive legal know-how and document management market, with rival suppliers using seminars as the basis of their REGIS FIVE CLEARED promotional activities. The Office for the Supervision of Today, PC DOCS is holding a joint seminar, plus lunch, Solicitors (OSS) has rejected a formal with Arthur Andersen at Lincoln’s Inn to promote the complaint made by the British Legal advantages to law firms of using the Fulcrum knowledge Association against five former members management system. Next Wednesday, 3rd February, CSE of the Law Society management team Systems is hosting a free seminar, plus lunch, to promote involved with the ill-fated REGIS the NetRight iManage document management system it membership database project. now distributes in the UK. Speakers will include Clive Although the project, which began in Whifield-Jones, whose firm Jeffrey Green Russell is now 1992, came in £7.5 million over budget implementing a 150-user iManage installation. To book a and initially did not work properly, the place for this event phone CSE on: 01483 453900. OSS ruled that the team, which included the then secretary general John Hayes, 1 COMMENT had not acted improperly and had been According to new statistics from the US high tech market authorised to transfer monies between research agency IDC, the current leader in the worldwide different Law Society projects to help “business process centric” document management sector, fund the REGIS implementation. with a 37 percent market share, is Documentum Software 1 The REGIS system is currently not (0181 867 3000). Year 2000 compliant but the project is The Documentum system, which is currently being described as “in hand” and the Law rolled out by Linklaters across the firm’s network of offices, Society is confident it will be completed has recently been enhanced by the launch of the EDMS 98 during the course of 1999. The actual upgrade. This is designed to help organisations tackle the compliance project will be undertaken by management of Y2K compliance documentation, including ITNet UK who, as part of a three year recording statements and warranties issued by third- outsourcing contract, are due to take parties, as well as capturing all questionnaires requesting over full responsibility for the Society’s IT Y2K compliance information. services with effect from February 1999. http://www.documentum.com Page 2 Wednesday 27 January 1999 http://www.legaltechnology.uk Legal Technology Insider HAS SCL AWARD GONE DEALS AND TENDERS 1 The PROBATION SERVICE has TO WRONG ENTRY ? chosen a CITRIX WINFRAME platform as Last Monday night the Society for Computers & Law a way of combining Y2K compliance with presented its annual IT award to H M Land Registry for its continued use of its existing 386 PCs. Direct Access Service, which provides online access to more The Service rejected the rival MICROSOFT than 15.5 million registers of title in England and Wales. WTS Windows Terminal Server option on Currently subscribers still have to run proprietary 3270 the grounds of cost and concerns that emulation software on their PCs to communicate with the WTS is still only available in beta release. Land Registry’s mainframe systems however there is a pilot project due to start in April that will provide internet access 1 Three partner MASON, BAGGOTT & via a standard web browser. GARTON in Scunthorpe has ordered the http://www.landreg.gov.uk/dastop.htm Wisdom case and practice management system from AVENUE LEGAL SYSTEMS. 1 COMMENT Why has the SCL given the award to a publicly funded 1 The LORD CHANCELLOR’S government agency that should have been - and in fact DEPARTMENT has awarded ICL and was talking about - providing direct access 15 years ago? It UNISYS a £183 million contract, under makes about as much sense as giving Richard Branson an the private finance initiative, to update award for getting his Virgin trains to run on time. the IT systems at over 400 magistrates Over the next twelve months the legal profession will courts across England & Wales as part of have to cope with the introduction of a new civil justice its Project Libra.
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