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AXXIA GETS ON TO THE LATE NEWS IN BRIEF 4 E-CONVEYANCING GETS A PREVIEW E-CASE - WITH XML On Tuesday morning (20th June) the Having seen arch-rival Solicitec have the online case Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, officially management field almost to itself for the last couple of launched Land Registry Direct, a new years with SolCase Online, Axxia Systems is set to strike web-enabled enhanced data and map back with its new e-Case system. retrieval service that has been developed As might be expected, the system offers clients direct by HM Land Registry and its technology access, via a browser, to a secure web site where they can partner Global Crossing. Peter Collis, the monitor progress on a matter but where e-Case puts clear Chief Land Registrar for England & blue water between itself and the competition is in the way Wales, said he hoped the service “will it handles documents. Using server-side Word to HTML file help turn electronic conveyancing from conversion and on-the-fly encryption, the system also concept to reality”. allows users to view actual documents. 4 Further details were not available at Axxia’s Doug McLachlan says a key feature of e-Case is the time the Insider went to press but a its use of XML. Along with letting clients send instructions full report will appear in the next edition via forms instead of unstructured e-mail messages, the of the Legal Technology News.com service. “open” architecture of XML means that, for example, a www.landreg.gov.uk trade union could use e-Case to manage its panel of law firms regardless of whether or not each individual practice 4 GLOBAL CONSULTANCY FOR CMS was running compatible Axxia case management software. Users of the CMS Open practice 4 The system is available for delivery now and the first law management system can take advantage firm e-Case site is due to be up and running by September. of specialist CMS applications and consultancy services following the decision by CMS parent Solution 6 to expand it ACTS! (Application, Consulting TIKIT AND HUMMINGBIRD IN & Technology Solutions) division and VIRTUAL DEAL ROOM MOVE provide a broader range of services on a Hummingbird and Tikit have developed a new system that global basis. ACTS! services will include takes advantage of Hummingbird’s IDMS integrated custom systems development, integration document management system to deliver the same benefits with third party products and databases, a firm such as Allen & Overy now has with its Newchange data import, export and replication and virtual dealroom facility. Via a browser, the user (who can general troubleshooting work. Skadden be a member of a law firm, a client or associated third Arps in New York has gone on record as party) can access a document, check it to a local folder, saying that using ACTS! consultants to edit it, annotate it with Post-it style notes and resubmit it help with a CMS upgrade cut the project to a matter library, with the software automatically time from six weeks to one week. handling security, version control, archiving, notifying http://acts.cmsopen.com other parties and producing a comprehensive audit trail.

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Page 1 Wednesday 21 June 2000 Legal Technology Insider www.legaltechnology.org NEWS IN BRIEF GO WITH 4 The AIM HOLDINGS GROUP, the parent of legal systems specialist AIM NORWEL FOR PMS PROFESSIONAL, has announced record Cobbetts, the 250+ staff, fast growing Manchester-based financial results for the year ended 30th commercial practice, has placed orders worth around April 2000. After writing off all R&D £400,000 with Norwel for the supply of a new practice expenditure, audited operating profits management system plus firm-wide front and back office (before interest and amortisation of applications, including case management, fee earner goodwill) were up by almost 40 percent to desktop, marketing and debt recovery software. £1.4 million on a turnover of £9.6 The Windows NT-based practice management system, million. As at April, the group had cash which replaces an old Linetime accounts package, is reserves of over £2 million. Deputy currently being rolled out, while case management is due chairman Mike Booth said the legal to go live in July. The front office infrastructure consists of division had reported record levels of Novell NetWare 5.1, GroupWise 5.5, RightFAX and profitability, while continuing to invest Microsoft Office 2000 running under Windows 95 on Dell in new products including e-commerce workstations, with Dell and Compaq servers. and web-enabled systems. Cobbetts’ IT manager Neil Davies said that along with providing fee earners with improved access to information 4 As part of the re-organisation directly from their desktops, the firm also anticipated the following its takeover by the RAMESYS accounts department to benefit from innovations such as GROUP, legal systems integrator THE automatic computer aided billing. DATA BASE last week changed its name to RAMESYS. All other contact details remain unchanged, the business is still TRANSACTION FORMS ON CD based in Nottingham (0115 971 2000) The complete set of English Law Society forms, including the TransAction conveyancing scheme plus business lease 4 AXXIA SYSTEMS has opened a new and coal mining search forms, are now commercially regional office in Bridgwater that will available on CD-Rom from EveryForm. At the same time serve its customers in Wales and the extra Court Service forms have been added to EveryForm’s South-West and Wales. The office, which free forms web site, bringing the total number of was formally opened by STEVEN PRIEST, downloadable forms available to just under 800. the president of the SOMERSET LAW www.everyform.net SOCIETY and senior partner of PORTER DODSON, has created 20 new jobs locally. At the end of this month Axxia WILDE JOINS CARYDAN TEAM will also officially commission its new Former AIM Professional managing director John Wilde disaster recovery centre in Sheffield. has been appointed a non-executive director of Jonathan Beck & Associates, the Altrincham-based developers of the 4 CORPORATE SYSTEMS, part of the Carydan integrated case and practice management system. TIME COMPUTERS GROUP, handled the 4 Carydan, which has been specifically developed for the upgrade of the PC network at the LEE personal injuries litigation market - its flagship site is RIGBY PARTNERSHIP in Leyland. The medical negligence specialists Alexander Harris, is firm was formed after last year’s merger of currently being demonstrated at a series of seminars LEE & CO and MARK RIGBY & CO. around the UK. The next dates are Bristol: 26th-to-28th June and Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 18th-to-20th July. Call 4 KEYSTONE SOLUTIONS is currently Mark Richardson on 0161 941 3790 for details. running seminars at its London office to demonstrate its recently acquired Net Results data mining and management MICROSOFT LAST WORD information system. Call Jonathan Mayo While we appreciate most readers will probably scream if (020 7919 5800) for details. The company they have to read another word about the decision in the has also redesigned its web site to Microsoft antitrust lawsuit, chairman Bill Gates and improve the delivery of marketing and company president Steve Ballmer have published an open communications information to letter to all customers that seeks to address any fears they customers, prospects and investors. may have. The full text can be found on the web. www.keystone-solutions.com www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/jun00/06-09letter.asp

Page 2 Wednesday 21 June 2000 www.legaltechnology.org Legal Technology Insider LEVISON TAKES TEAM NEWS IN BRIEF 4 WARD GETHIN, the largest law firm in TO BAKER ROBBINS Kings Lynn, has decided to base the In one of the biggest shake-ups the UK legal IT consultancy entire operation of its front office fee world has seen for many years, Grant Thornton partner earning activities around SELECT Andrew Levison is quitting the firm and taking his entire LEGAL SYSTEMS (01482 644334) case consultancy team with him to join the US IT consultancy management software. Initially the firm Baker Robbins & Co. will install the “lite” version of the Baker Robbins, which employs over 150 consultants in software on 70 desktops but this will be the United States and has offices in New York, Los followed by the development of a number Angeles, Chicago, Houston and San Francisco, has been of specialist applications for specific sounding out prospective recruits in the UK for several departments, starting with trade union months and is understood to have been trying to woo personal injury work - Ward Gethin are Levison from the outset. However, rather than forcing a the main representatives for the complete break between Levison and his former employers, TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS the two sides have instead negotiated a cross-referral UNION (T&GWU) in that area. arrangement. Under the terms of this deal (which is being described as a “strategic alliance”) Levison’s team will 4 MIKE BAILEY, who almost single- continue to offer IT consultancy services to Grant handedly was responsible for getting the Thornton clients, while Baker Robbins will cross-refer CMS Open product off the ground in the appropriate business advisory work to Grant Thornton. UK, has left CMS DATA, where until last The big move takes place on 1st July, when Levison will week he was the UK business manager. formally join Baker Robbins as head of UK and Europe The official statement put out by CMS consulting services. Initially with a complement of eight parent SOLUTION 6 read “Following the staff, Levison envisages this more than doubling over the acquisition of CMS last October, there next twelve months as the Baker Robbins dimension has been a substantial re-organisation allows the team to “leverage a broader consultancy for new of the business and, as a result, the CMS and existing clients”. Along with strategic consultancy operational responsibilities have projects, Levison is keen to move the business into systems considerably altered. Mike has now made implementation and e-commerce development work. the very difficult decision to move onto 4 Baker Robbins has relationships with iManage, Docs another position which will provide more and Documentum in the United States, a factor Levison stimulus than his current role.” believes will help the new consultancy compete in the UK against the likes of both Tikit and the Neil Cameron 4 MATT McCORMACK is looking after Consultancy, the latter still dominating the top end of the marketing at EPOCH SOFTWARE legal technology consultancy market. following the recent departure of 4 The Insider also understands that Andrew Terrett of marketing manager ANDREW COWEN, Masons, the author of The Internet - Business Strategies for who himself only replaced ERIC Law Firms, is joining Baker Robbins on the e-commerce McDOWELL earlier this year. and know-how side. At the time of going to print, Baker Robbins was still finalising its London accommodation 4 Gremlins in the last issue resulted in however the temporary contact number is 07860 584812. DUNCAN FINLYSON’s new business www.brco.com being given the wrong monicker. The correct name is INFOLEGAL. Finlyson is also continuing to work on some Desktop V-LEX TO INSTALL PILGRIM Lawyer projects for EPOCH SOFTWARE. V-lex, a new IT practice-oriented law firm, has selected [email protected] Pilgrim Systems’ LawSoft as its practice management product. Formed by John Yates, Graham Ferris and two 4 BURNETTS, which is based in Carlisle other ex-partners of Oxley & Coward, when they broke and with 90 staff is the largest law firm away to form the firm earlier this spring, v-lex plans to in Cumbria, reckons it has cut its phone handle work both directly and through an “alliance” of bills by 40 percent since changing its self-employed lawyers. John Yates said one of the reasons telecoms supplier. As part of the move to for choosing LawSoft was it could facilitate a “transparent” NORWEB TELECOM, the firm was able to approach to providing legal services, with both clients and retain all its existing phone numbers. affiliate lawyers being able to access their files remotely. www.norwebtelecom.com

Wednesday 21 June 2000 Page 3 Legal Technology Insider www.legaltechnology.org NEWS IN BRIEF ONLINE LEGAL 4 RICHMONDS in Doncaster has installed a NetPilot server PUBLISHING NEWS from EQUIINET (01793 603700) to handle the firm’s web and Internet e-mail traffic. 4 CENTAUR’s legal publishing division has completed the Senior partner STEPHEN SHORE says reorganisation and hypertext linking of its EU databases the system, which was supplied by local and legal materials and formally launched the service as reseller COMPUTA MAGIC and has the EU interactive. Legal publishing director RACHEL LESITER ability to automatically archive e-mails, said the objective had been to create a “Lawtel for Europe” cost approximately 20 percent of the that would provide subscribers with one place to access all price of comparable products. EU legal information, while at the same time “making life easier for our users by simplifying the complexity of 4 ALLEN & OVERY has completed its searching and locating EU legal material”. One of the first major commercial transaction service’s innovations is an information centre subscribers through the Newchange virtual dealroom can call on a Freephone number to obtain advice and and automated document assembly assistance on all aspects of EU law and legal research. systems it announced earlier this year. www.euinteractive.com The client was AMBAC, an underwriter in a £128 million bond deal for financing 4 THOMSON LEGAL, the parent of both WESTLAW and the HM TREASURY building in Great SWEET & MAXWELL, has acquired TRANSACTIVE SARL, a George Street, London, under a private leading provider of electronic legal research tools in France. finance initiative (PFI). A&O says over Transactive’s best known product is Le Doctrinal, which is 100 deals are currently being processed used by most of the major French law firms. through other Newchange online dealrooms. As reported previously, the 4 Latest reports from the United States suggest MATTHEW document assembly element of BENDER, part of the REED ELSEVIER publishing group, is Newchange is based on CAPSOFT’s no longer in the market for selling its subsidiary CAPSOFT HotDocs technology. INC, the US developer of the HotDocs document assembly system, to a third party. (For the record, CAPSOFT UK is a private company entirely independent of Matthew Bender.) BUZZWORD CORNER 4 BUTTERWORTHS TOLLEY has taken a stake in 4 DESKTOP DINING MONDAQ, which specialises in delivering legal and Thanks to the character Gordon Gekko professional information to law firms and accountancy in the 1987 movie Wall Street, we all practices over the Internet, either directly via its own web know that “lunch is for wimps” however site or through third-party services including WESTLAW, with so much information and so many LAWTEL and LEXIS NEXIS. Butterworths group managing applications now available to lawyers at director STEPHEN STOUT has joined Mondaq’s board. the desktop, it is now possible to carry on with bona fide fee earning work while 4 LAWMONEY.COM, the legal portal arm of EUROMONEY, sitting in front of a computer terminal is currently looking for an editor to head the site’s soon to and eating your lunch. be launched daily online legal news service. Within the last Unfortunately the rise of desktop month BUTTERWORTHS, LAWZONE and LAW.COM/UK dining is providing IT departments with a have all launched or announced enhancements to their whole new generation of technical online legal news services. support problems as they tackle crumbs in the keyboard, mayonnaise on the 4 CHAMBERS & PARTNERS, the publishers of Commercial modem and the consequence of hot and Lawyer magazine, are planning to make all their titles heavily sugared tea being accidentally available on the web and are currently recruiting an online poured on a telephone. Some offices are editor to head the project. even reporting a rise in mice and ant infestation as the pests take advantage 4 BUTTERWORTHS DIRECT has just added Banking Law of all the food droppings lurking in the Direct to its portfolio of online legal information products. shag-pile. Sales of so-called “keyboard Prices for the new service, which includes online versions condoms” - thin plastic covers for of Paget’s Law of Banking and the Encyclopaedia of computer kit - are also on the increase. Banking Law, start at £2500 for a single user licence.

Page 4 Wednesday 21 June 2000 www.legaltechnology.org Legal Technology Insider THE NEW KIDS - PART II LEGAL TECHNOLOGY Following on from the last issue of the Insider, we DIARY DATES continue our round-up of the latest new products, services and suppliers to enter the UK legal systems market. 4 JUNE 27, WAKEFIELD. E-Commerce 2000. Sanderson Systems’ final roadshow 4 MAKING SPACE ON THE DESKTOP takes place at the Cedar Court Hotel on One of the more novel products to have emerged this year, 27th June. Admission free, call Lisa although technically still only in an advanced beta stage, Quinn on 0121 359 4861. is the DESKspace practice management system, which has been developed by West Sussex-based sole practitioner 4 JUNE 27, CHICHESTER. Cost effective Nick Lightbody (01273 857557). web sites for law firms. Part of a series of Designed for small-to-mid-sized professional practices, afternoon and early evening seminars for the system uses a similar approach to Keystone - a product practitioners wanting a step-by-step at the complete opposite end of the legal IT market guide to creating an Internet presence. spectrum - in that it aims to put case, file, document and Presented by Gerald Newman at the practice management in the hands of fee earners rather Chichester District Council Offices. The than leaving them dependent upon an expensive to run event is repeated on 28th June at the team of back office support and administrative staff. Law Society, Chancery Lane, London, The product, which is based around a FileMaker Pro and again on 4th July in Birmingham. database, is also fully compatible with speech recognition Admission free, call 01243 531551. technology. Another novel element - although probably of www.events.lawsociety.org.uk more interest to American lawyers - is that the system will run on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. The 4 JULY 3, LONDON. Creating a Web provisional pricing structure is £699 for a single user Presence. An evening seminar (starts licence, with additional users costing approximately £250 6:30pm) organised by the Society for per seat. For more than 10 users, a copy of FileMaker Computers & Law. The theme is making Server, which costs £799, is also recommended. law firm web sites more effective and www.deskspace.com speakers include Eduardo Ustaran from Paisner & Co. The event takes place at 4 ASP FOR CITRIX head office in Silk Street and The Integration Group, which operates from a secure qualifies for one CPD hour. Free to SCL managed data centre in the London Docklands, has members, non-members £30 (inc VAT). become one of the first application services providers (ASP) Call 01179 237393 to reserve a place. in Europe to be awarded a Citrix “ibusiness” licence. This allows law firms anywhere in the UK or Europe to 4 SEPTEMBER 5, GLASGOW. The effectively rent and use individual software applications via Interactive Library. Seminar organised by leased lines, ADSL or the Internet. A demonstration Soutron to promote its library systems. version of the company’s services is available on the web. For details call 01332 8211817. www.integration-group.com www.soutron.com/seminars

4 TOUCHING BASE WITH LEGAL TELECOMS 4 SEPTEMBER 13, EDINBURGH. Touchbase Communications, which specialises in the Nothing but the Net, a one day conference provision of telecoms implementation and consultancy covering everything lawyers need to know services - the company has partnership arrangements with about running a legal practice on the Cisco and Lucent - now has a team focussing specifically web. Organised by the Scottish Law on the UK law firms vertical market. Society’s Update division. Fee £99 (+ The team, which includes equity partner Jon Amery and VAT). The event qualifies for CPD points. senior consultant Anthony Liston, has already carried out For details call 0131 226 7422. projects for a number of London firms, including Charles Russell, Howard Kennedy, Finers, Boodle Hatfield and 4 SEPTEMBER 19 & 20, LONDON. Warner Cranston. In addition, Touchbase is also starting Improving Profitability - one day to win work from US practices, such as White & Case, that conference plus optional workshop on are opening London offices and need compatible systems. law firm financial management. Speakers Touchbase’s head office (020 7878 7000) is in London. include Alan Rich of Elite and Anthony The company also has offices in Madrid and Auckland. Armitage of FirstLAW. For details call www.touchbase.co.uk Centaur on 020 7970 4770.

Wednesday 21 June 2000 Page 5 Legal Technology Insider www.legaltechnology.org SITES TO BOOKMARK “E-BAY” FOR LAWYERS 4 Edinburgh law firm WRIGHT & CO has launched an online divorce advice TO HIT UK service - DIVORCE UK - offering free help The Americans call them “e-Bay for lawyers” - online on a range of topics including the impact auction sites that allow pre-selected groups of law firms to on pensions, dealing with the Child bid for legal work as an alternative to the traditional Support Agency, and the difference beauty parade. To-date FirstLAW has had the market to between divorces in Scotland and itself on this side of the Atlantic but earlier this month England & Wales. The company plans to John B Henry II, a former Wall Street lawyer-turned create a “franchise-style” package of business entrepreneur, was in the UK talking to inhouse services offered by a network of affiliated counsel at some major corporates about putting their work law firms. The aim is to have a network up for tender on his rival eLawForum service. of 200 firms whose members will benefit Henry’s company, which has already begun hosting from ongoing marketing campaigns. legal service auctions in the United States, has appointed Along with Wright & Co, founder Mobil’s former senior counsel Kay Consolver as its chief members include SMITHSON CLARKE on operating officer and includes Boyden Gray, President Tyneside, BUCHANAN DICKSON FRAME Bush’s chief White House counsel and now a partner with in Glasgow and WOOLLEY & CO, which Washington law firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering among its has offices throughout the Midlands. investors. ELawForum’s revenue stream will be based on www.divorceuk.com charging a buyer’s premium of two percent of the value of any legal work undertaken. 4 OLLIERS in Manchester has launched 4 Former Legal Network Television (LNTV) director Peter a marketing site for legal aid lawyers that Reekie is to join Markets Unlocked, a new UK business-to- will allow solicitors to post job vacancies business (B2B) online trading hub, prompting speculation and seek referral arrangements with that it will also be moving into the legal services field. other firms. www.elawforum.com www.legalaidlawyers.com www.marketsunlocked.com

4 With the holiday season underway, DESKTOP LAWYER has developed a JUST ASK FOR FULL FORCE package of cheap (each costs just £2.99) Full Force Marketing (01209 822060), which operates a downloadable, jargon-free legal letters number of specialist law firm marketing directory web sites, enabling holidaymakers to make has received Community Legal Service approval to have its complaints quickly, easily and without Family-Solicitors.co.uk, Employment-Solictors.co.uk and the need for a . The letters deal AccidentCompensation.com sites featured on the official with some of the more frequent CLS JustAsk! public legal services portal. complaints including: lost luggage, flight 4 The English Law Society has confirmed it is working on delays and unrealised expectations. an online directory of every solicitors practice in England & The company has also agreed a Wales. The site is expected to go live in the autumn. reseller deal with the COMMERCIAL www.justask.org.uk PROPERTY DATABASE that will give www.solicitors-online.com CPD’s subscribing property agents, such as FPD SAVILLS, access to the full Desktop Lawyer range of commercial PROPERTY DATA GOES ONLINE property agreements. Experian, part of the Great Universal Stores mail order www.desktoplawyer.co.uk group, has used its extensive market research data to www.cpd.co.uk create a new “e-series property” online database that can provide home buyers with demographic and neighbourhood 4 Scottish law firm BOYDS is now information about the properties and areas to which they selling a range of downloadable legal are considering moving. Details available include: the documents online. The documents, incomes, age and employments profiles of the neighbours, which each cost £45 + VAT, have been local burglary and motor crime statistics, the performance designed for e-business start-ups and figures for local schools and insurance underwriting data include confidentiality agreements, relating to subsidence, flooding and windstorm damage. disclaimers and copyright notices. The data will be available from next month through third www.boydslaw.com party web sites such as Scoot.com and Easier.com.

Page 6 Wednesday 21 June 2000 www.legaltechnology.org Legal Technology Insider LAW SOCIETY LAYS READER SERVICES 4 WATCHING BRIEF ONLINE DOWN E-MAIL RULES Watching Brief Online is a digital The English Law Society has just published new guidelines newsletter providing a summary of recent on the use of e-mail by solicitors. While reminding lawyers local government law cases. It is available of the risks associated with the medium - such as the free of charge on the web and in a plain potential for anonymous communications to be exploited text e-mail format. To subscribe send an not only by money launderers but even in relation to more e-mail, headed “Watching Brief” and routine matters such as wills - the guidelines are positive containing your e-mail address, to: in tone and emphasise “the great benefits that e-mail can [email protected] bring to the professional practice”. www.watchingbrief.com On the question of encryption, the Society has adopted a similar pragmatic approach to that of the American Bar 4 LTi-NET DIGITAL NEWSLETTER Association, advising firms not to include confidential LTi-NET, the digital version of Legal information in non-encrypted e-mail without the informed Technology Insider, is available in both consent of clients and to take particular care to ensure PDF and HTML file formats and can be individual private clients fully appreciate the possible risks. accessed via a subscriber-only web site or delivered as an e-mail attachment direct to the desktop. Subscription rates start ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BUG at £135 for a single user licence, rising to Scarcely a week goes by without reports of yet another new £270 for an unlimited site licence. For a computer virus escaping into the wild. This week it is the free trial copy e-mail: turn of Fireburn which although more of an embarrassing [email protected] nuisance than a business wrecker - it submits obscene messages on your behalf to online chatrooms - is still one 4 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS.COM more problem busy e-mail users and network managers For the latest legal IT breaking news as can live without. and when it happens subscribe to The good news is because Fireburn was first detected LegalTechnologyNews.com. The service is about ten days ago, all the main anti-virus software available free of charge via the web and products are already geared up to cope with it - although in plain text e-mail format. To subscribe you may still need to download the appropriate fix. The send an e-mail, headed “News” and bad news is you can be certain that yet another virus will containing your e-mail address, to: not be far behind. [email protected] One impact of these virus attacks is that organisations www.legaltechnologynews.com are starting to widen the scope of their security measures. Along with the usual warnings about backing up data on 4 E-MAIL HOAX AND VIRUS ALERT a regular basis and both installing anti-virus software and Check out the Insider web site for news ensuring it is regularly updated, best advice now includes: and advice on the latest e-mail hoaxes 4 Changing your e-mail client software settings to treat and viruses. all incoming messages as plain text, with all the HTML www.legaltechnology.org formatting and graphics stripped out, as this should limit the impact of Javascript-based viruses such as KAK. ISSN 1361-1240 Copyright © Legal Technology 4 Not opening attachments, even from people you know, Insider 2000. All rights reserved. No part of until you are certain they are virus free. If in any doubt, this publication may be reproduced without delete both the message and the attached file. Senders can consent. While every effort is made to circumvent this problem by incorporating the document as ensure the accuracy of the information in a plain text message within the body of the e-mail rather this publication, no guarantee is expressed than sending it as an attached file. or implied and the Publisher does not accept 4 If you must send attachments, save them in RFT (Rich liability for any loss or damage that may Text Format) rather than as a Word DOC file, as this will arise from any errors or omissions. Please prevent the transmission of macro viruses. note that web site addresses can change. All 4 Finally, download a copy of the e-mail security update brand names and trademarks acknowledged. for Outlook 98 and Office 2000 that Microsoft posted onto Privacy policy: We do not sell or disclose the its web site last week. Microsoft recommends users to names, addresses or other contact details of retain the download’s default settings. our subscribers to anyone. We are registered www.officeupdate.com under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Wednesday 21 June 2000 Page 7 Legal Technology Insider www.legaltechnology.org LEGAL WEB SITE TOP 20 Welcome to the second of our monthly traffic reports on the UK’s busiest legal web sites and portals. The figures are to 31st May. As predicted last time, all sites have reported www.legaltechnology.org increases in visitor numbers after the quiet period over Easter. To cope with the increase in responses, we have CONTACT DETAILS expanded the chart from a Top 10 to a Top 20. Legal Technology Insider, Ferndale New entries this month include DLA Solicitors, the Law House, Harling Road, North Lopham, Society and plus two e-commerce Diss, Norfolk IP22 2NQ, United Kingdom. sites: Desktop Lawyer and EveryForm. The huge increase 4 Publisher & Editor: Charles Christian recorded by Interactive-Lawyer reflects the fact the site’s Tel: 01379 687518 - Fax: 01379 687704 traffic figures are now combined with the Lawtel service for E-mail: [email protected] advertising sales purposes. Stripping out Lawtel traffic, the site logged 385,000 impressions, making Gazette Online the busiest web site belonging to a legal magazine. SUBSCRIBE NOW Legal Technology Insider is available only (1) Interactive-Lawyer + LAWTEL (www.interactive-lawyer.com) on subscription. UK subscription rates: Page Views 1.55 million - Sessions 53,444 - Hits n/a one year @ £115 for 20 issues or two (2) International Centre for Commercial Law (www.icclaw.com) years @ £200 for 40 issues. Rest of World Page Views 728,125 - Sessions 46,008 - Hits 1.82 million £135 for 20 issues or £240 for 40 issues. (3) Butterworths Direct (www.butterworths.co.uk) Payment in Sterling drawn on London. Page Views 421,291 - Sessions 75,400 - Hits 1.09 million 4 To subscribe, complete & return this (4) (Law Society) Gazette Online (www.lawgazette.co.uk) form to: Legal Technology Insider, Page Views 404,759 - Sessions 38,945 - Hits 1.31 million Ferndale House, Harling Road, North (5) Desktop Lawyer (www.desktoplawyer.co.uk) Lopham, Diss, Norfolk IP22 2NQ, UK Page Views 278,996 - Sessions 71,127 - Hits 2.16 million &------(6) The Law Society (www.lawsociety.org.uk) Page Views 270,230 - Sessions 59,596 - Hits 1.37 million Name ...... (7) (www.legalweek.net) Page Views 262,310 - Sessions n/a - Hits 575,561 Position ...... (8) EveryForm (www.everyform.net) Firm/Organisation ...... Page Views 178,823 - Sessions 13,277 - Hits 471,701 ...... (9) DLA Solicitors (www.dla.com) Address ...... Page Views 170,165 - Sessions 67,880 - Hits 368,389 ...... (10) Employment Law (www.emplaw.co.uk) Page Views 167,084 - Sessions 20,012 - Hits 492,016 ...... (11) LAWmoney.com (www.lawmoney.com) ...... Page Views 96,159 - Sessions 31,419 - Hits 695,394 Post/Zip Code ...... (12) Delia Venables Legal Resources (www.venables.co.uk) Phone Number ...... Page Views 79,249 - Sessions 22,393 - Hits 142,590 (13) Infolaw (www.infolaw.co.uk) E-mail ...... Page Views 38,295 - Sessions 13,548 - Hits 40,133 4 Tick boxes or complete as appropriate: (14) (www.osborneclarke.com) I enclose my remittance of £ ...... Page Views 36,277 - Sessions 20,171 - Hits 148,038 (payable to Legal Technology Insider) for (15) Just Ask! (Community Legal Service) (www.justask.org.uk) one year ! or two years’ ! subscription. Page Views 31,258 - Sessions n/a - Hits 469,012 Send receipted invoice ! (16) Lawyers Online (www.lawyersonline.co.uk) Please invoice me ! Page Views 31,016 - Sessions 20,179 - Hits n/a (17) Law on the Web (www.lawontheweb.co.uk) Purchase Order No ...... Page Views 23,300 - Sessions n/a - Hits 66,891 (18) Employment Solicitors (www.employment-solicitors.co.uk) Page Views 10,649 - Sessions 7774 - Hits 96,362 THE NEXT ISSUE (19) Accident Compensation (www.accidentcompensation.com) The next issue of Legal Technology Page Views 8950 - Sessions 3981 - Hits 71,676 Insider - No. 104 - will be published on (20) Family Solicitors (www.family-solicitors.co.uk) Wednesday 5th July, 2000. Page Views 6455 - Sessions 2618 - Hits 35,080

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