CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WHAT’S HOT (AND WHAT’S NOT) IN LAW OFFICE SYSTEMS

➦ Warren believes the new exhibitors ALL CHANGE will create an interesting change of em- In this AT phasis at the show, with a shift towards edition… the increasingly vital topic of digital THE BARBICAN communications, including the Internet American legal When the UK’s leading legal techno- and intranets. supplier group logy event – the & Legal Truemist are also introducing a facing collapse… 2 Office Exhibition – kicks off at number of other innovations this year, London’s Barbican Centre in June, the including improved facilities for exhibitors Elite in banking show will witness one of the biggest and a conference area where seminars deal with Royal shake-ups in its 14 year history. and workshop sessions can be held. Bank… 3 Within the last few weeks Quill Changes are also being introduced to the Computer Systems, MSS Management regional Software for Solicitors show, Flurry of activity in Support Systems, Timeslice and Videss with the autumn Midlands and Northern voice technology Computer Systems have all confirmed events being combined in a two day market… 4 they will not be attending the 1997 event. exhibition at the Manchester G-Mex This is in addition to AIM Professional Centre in October. MSS and Dickson and Access Legal Systems, who Haslam show the announced they were pulling out last ☞ Comment… So why are the likes of way with remote year, and major suppliers such as Miles Quill, AIM. MSS and Norwel no longer systems for the 33 and Norwel who ceased attending in going to the Barbican? High Street… 5 recent years. One reason is clearly cost. John However David Warren, of the Wilde of AIM makes no secret of the fact Butterworths event’s organisers Truemist Professional, he believes the money spent on a technology wins is unfazed by this, pointing out that presence at the Barbican could be put to award… 6 the cancellations have merely made room better use in other forms of marketing for the record number of companies activity, such as the regional seminar Legal IT Diary queuing up for a space at the show. programme the company has been Dates… 6 These include major names, such running since the autumn. as British Telecom, Reuters and Xerox, as According to Wilde, it cost AIM US intranet for well as a growing number of overseas £463 for every new business lead inhouse lawyers on companies, such as World Software and generated at the Barbican in 1996 way to UK… 7 Corprasoft (see separate story on page 7) whereas with the seminars “the cost is from the USA, and Falcon Software (no about one tenth of that”. Latest legal WWW relation to the old barristers system - see There is also a growing belief that sites… 7 page 2) from Belgium. with an increasingly sophisticated market Other new faces include TikIt, – many law firms are now on their third And don’t forget to Trace Solutions, ITC, Michael Software or fourth generation of IT systems – and visit http://www. and Waterlows. The American PC Docs increasingly complex products, the mass cloudnine.co.uk group, which last year took over UK marketing approach of exhibitions is no distributor Quintec, is also promising to longer appropriate and needs to give way have a major presence at the event to to more selective and even one-to-one promote its CMS Open system. ➥ methods. …continued on page 4 ➥

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AMERICAN LEGAL ➦ NALV’s current chairman is now looking for suppliers “willing to volunteer SUPPLIERS GROUP their time in addition to their money” to FACING COLLAPSE help reorganise the association. The ten year old National Association David Goldstein’s verdict is that of Legal Vendors (NALV) in the USA is “NALV was a great organisation and it did facing collapse in the wake of falling a lot of good, especially for startups like Laserform membership and a financially ourselves. Its motives were pure. And,“ he joins “open” disastrous joint initiative with the law adds “Hopefully LSSA (the Legal Software group practice management section of the Suppliers Association, the UK equivalent Laserform Law American Bar Association (ABA). of NALV) can learn from some of our is to adopt the At the peak of its success in the mistakes and try to avoid them.” Integration early 1990s, NALV had more than 225 Partner software members but by last year this had fallen ☞ Comment… LSSA must be doing standard for its to less than 100, with the result that its something right as the latest edition of Kestrel Accounts 1996 operating budget was down over the ILCA’s Legal Software Suppliers Pocket system. The 55% on what it had been in better years Guide contains entries from four standard, originally and the three conferences scheduled for companies who incorrectly claim to be developed by this year have been “postponed”. LSSA members. Solicitec and According to NALV’s former The four are Select Legal Systems, Solicitors Own secretary/treasurer David Goldstein, the DPS, Perfect Software and Solace Legal Software, provides president of ProSoft Corporation – best Systems. LSSA secretary Roger Hancock an “open” or known in the UK for the Carpe Diem says Perfect and DPS should be given the common interface system – the association’s heavy reliance benefit of the doubt as there may have for developers of on membership dues has always been a been a genuine misunderstanding. Never legal accounts and problem. With hindsight this makes him the less all four have now been sent case management wonder whether the US legal supplier LSSA membership application forms. ❐ software. community is large enough to support an organisation of this kind, as at its height its membership only comprised about ACE BAGS FALCON SITES 20% of the companies in the market. In the last issue, LTi reported that some The problems really escalated of the users of the Falcon barristers Double top however when the NALV became involved accounts system were unhappy about for Dart in the TAP2 (The Automated Practice/The sale of the company to rival Bar software John Howell & Co Automated Professional) initiative with supplier Meridian Law and complained in Sheffield and the Association of Legal Administrators they had been “left in the lurch” David Gray & Co in and the ABA. Since then Applied Computer Newcastle are to This was a portable “law office of Expertise, the largest player in the Bar install the DART the future” display occupying 2400 market, has announced that two former practice manage- square feet of space that was designed to Falcon sets - Jeremy Gibbons’ chambers ment system as be taken to US legal trade shows and in Southampton and those of Steven part of their conferences, including LegalTech and the Hadley in in the Temple – migration to a new annual ABA meeting. Unfortunately the have declined to move from Falcon to Windows NT and cost of operating TAP2 – one source Meridian and instead ordered the new Microsoft Office ‘97 claims it was as high as $100,000 a show Windows version of ACE’s Infinity system. computing – far exceeded the funding available. ACE managing director Rod Voyce environment. The TAP2 project also prompted believes most Falcon users are still disputes over sponsorship and is thought considering their options and that others to have generally soured relations will switch to the new ACE client/server between suppliers and the NALV, as well Windows product in preference to the as adding further strains on finances. ➥ Meridian system. ❐

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ELITE IN BANKING ➦ member of the Legal Software Suppliers Association, which requires its LINK UP members to have advised all users of Elite Information Systems and the proposals for dealing with the Year 2000 Award for Royal Bank of Scotland last week problem by the end of this month. ❐ Goddards announced a joint initiative to bring integrated electronic banking into has won a com- the legal market. COMPUTER CONSULTANTS… mendation in this Under the deal, Royal’s existing THE DEBATE CONTINUES year’s Investors in Roylink system is being integrated with Responses to the LTi survey on legal IT People Awards Elite’s financial management software so consultants are continuing to roll in, as for the firm’s that all incoming and outgoing CHAPS are general comments from readers. Tomorrow’s Office payments can in future transfer funds Independent consultant Graham project. directly to and from client accounts. Irwin had this to say: “You quote one Elite sales manager David Thorpe supplier who says he groans every time he This was a series of says the advantage of this method over learns of another failed salesman or IT training workshops the conventional approach of a cashiers manager becoming a consultant. As a designed to department using a stand alone CHAPS consultant I cannot take part in your reappraise the way terminal, is that it avoids the duplication survey, but I hope I may make one or two in which lawyers of data entry that occurs when CHAPS observations – I’m sure all professional use information transactions have to be rekeyed into the consultants would agree with them. technology to work client account ledgers. “Those who work or have worked with support staff The Roylink/Elite integration will for the big consultancy practices have and was launched also allow users to conduct direct online usually been trained in consulting skills, at the end of 1995 bank reconciliations. ❐ such as understanding the client’s needs, to coincide with report writing, impartiality, and setting the installation of the scope of the job. the firm’s new IT MSS TO STOP SUPPORT “What makes me cringe is when I infrastructure. FOR UNIX PLATFORM hear of a failed who sets up as a In one of the first Year 2000 shake-outs, computer consultant. As if a couple of MSS Management Support Systems is months or years experience using a New accounts advising its users that it will stop computer give him an understanding of rules on way? supporting systems running on Unix and what happens under the bonnet. It’s like The English AlphaMicro hardware platforms at the a motorist setting up as a car mechanic! Law Society is end of 1998. “I believe IT-minded lawyers and currently MSS director John Meehan says a consultants can make effective teams if conducting a combination of factors are responsible they were to work together, as they have consultation for the decision, including potential complementary experiences and skills”. exercise over millennium computing problems and a An alternative view is expressed by proposed changes desire to rationalise the company’s a partner with a firm in Cardiff, who to the Solicitors software development operations. suggests that if the Law Society is serious Accounts Rules. “We are currently completing a about IT, perhaps it could retain the These are under- major rewrite of all our software to move services of “approved” consultants, who stood to include a it into a 32-bit Microsoft Windows 95/NT could then be used by members of the clarification on the environment. In these circumstances it profession at reduced rates. regulations relating no longer makes sense to support to holding client multiple platforms,” said Meehan. ☞ Comment… In fact the Law Society deposits but are of Scotland already operates a similar not expected to ☞ Comment… MSS is continuing to scheme with the Computer Advisory come into force support users of the DOS versions of its Service it runs in conjunction with the until 1998. AlphaLaw applications. MSS is also a ➥ Law Practice Management consultancy.❐

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FLURRY OF ➦ This is now retailing for £89 and the only drawback seems to be that you have ACTIVITY IN VOICE to dictate into (and then cut and paste TECH MARKET from) a dictation window rather than The last month has seen a number of directly into the application. initiatives within the increasingly Curiously, despite repeated closely linked markets for digital requests IBM UK has refused to supply dictation and speech recognition LTi with any further information about technology. this product. According to a spokesman Sanyo Information Systems have this is because it is unsuitable for launched a new product called Flashback lawyers, who should instead buy the full Mobile Office, comprising three elements VoiceType 3.0 system for £555! ❐ Solicitec wins which can be purchased either separately 100th deal or for an all-in price of £399 + VAT. Case management The Flashback is a portable digital ALL CHANGE AT BARBICAN specialists recorder (ie no tape) that uses solid state ➦ continued from front page… This view is Solicitec last week reusable flash memory cartridges (called echoed by Tony Landes of Quill, one of signed the 100th SoundClips) that can each store up to 36 the biggest users of advertising in the UK order for their minutes of voice recording. legal market. According to Landes: “As SolCase Windows The third element is the Voicelink the selling of systems becomes more case management PC adapter, which allows a SoundClip complex and integrated office systems system. cartridge to be inserted into a PCMCIA/PC become crucial to the operation of Card slot so that voice files can be down- practices, we are no longer selling on the The £100,000 loaded onto the computer’s hard disk for basis of demonstrations at exhibitions. order was placed playback, transcription or even transfer- “We feel reasonably confident that by Cheltenham ring to another location by email. we have reached a stage where firms will firm Bretherton Flashback is available now ask us to quote because of our track Price Elgoods and through selected Sanyo details. More record in the market sector with which comprises fully information is available on Freephone we are associated. The Barbican is not integrated case ☎ 0500 368080. cost effective in terms of getting names management, which are unknown to us.” ❐ accounts, time Philips also have something to say recording and fax Philips Speech Processing and the Dicta- software running phone Corporation last week signed an AXXIA REVIEWING PR across a Microsoft agreement whereby Dictaphone will Axxia Legal Systems is reviewing its PR NT network. incorporate Philips’ speech recognition strategy and has invited a number of technology into Dictaphone’s upcoming specialist high tech consultancies to The accounts line of voice and data management present proposals for new press and software will be systems. Philips has also confirmed that publicity campaigns. supplied via SOS a new 32-bit Windows 95/NT compatible and the initial case version of its SpeechMagic continuous ☞ Comment… Although it is common management speech recognition software will be laun- practice for organisations to periodically installation will be ched in the second quarter of this year review their PR arrangements, Axxia do in the firm’s seem to have an image problem. While conveyancing and But IBM is silent widely recognised as the market leader personal injury Finally, in Issue No 32 we reported on the among traditional legal IT suppliers, such departments. new cut-price DragonDictate Singles as TFB, AIM and Avenue, they have not Edition speech recognition software. IBM made the impact that might be expected has now responded with Simply Speak- on larger City firms and are instead losing ing, a cut down version of its VoiceType orders to relative newcomers, such as Dictation software. ➥ Elite, CMS Open and Keystone. ❐

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REMOTE SYSTEMS ➦ The Dickson Haslam experience Although many of the larger firms in the TAKE OFF IN UK now equip partners and qualified staff THE HIGH STREET with laptops and remote access software MSS Management Support Systems is as a matter of course, it is interesting to Oyez forms in now distributing a major upgrade to see the benefits are now being recognised new link the company’s AlphaLAW case by smaller High Street practices. MSS and Solicitors management software, that is Dickson Haslam in Lancashire is Law have designed to help lawyers who need to a good example for although the firm has completed the full work at home or away from the office. had computerised accounts and word- integration of all Called “Remote”, the system processing for secretaries since the early Oyez electronic allows users to not only access informa- 1980s, it has only been within the last legal forms into the tion held on a firm’s central computer couple of years that IT has spread to the AlphaLAW case when they are out of the office but also to desktops of fee earners. management actually work on the files, including The event prompting the change system. creating new documents and updating was the departure of partner Andrew records. Greensmith’s secretary and his decision This means forms Before leaving the office, the user to move her PC onto his desk. The can not only be can download the relevant information, benefits were quickly recognised and all completed including accounts and diary details, the other partners soon followed suit. onscreen in a onto a laptop computer – the system also Greensmith himself subsequently became stand alone mode includes an automatic time recording the High Street practice representative on but also any fields facility. one of the Woolf sub-committees. on the forms are For the duration of the time these Now, one of the most enthusiastic automatically files are on the laptop, the corresponding users is managing partner Raymond linked to the matter records on the office system are Green, who also sits as a deputy district correct locations temporarily locked, so they cannot be judge in a county court. Despite spending within the case inadvertently changed so as to create two two-thirds of his time away from his desk, management different versions of the same file. thanks to a laptop computer and modem database. (Although there is an emergency facility link, he is still able to work on files and to override locked files.) exchange messages with the office. When the user returns to the office, the files can be transferred back ☞ Technical Notes… The Dickson New onto the main system and the records Haslam installation was carried out by consultancy automatically updated and synchronised. Management Interface Ltd (MIL). The firm Elaine Jenking, MSS director John Meehan said a uses electronic forms software, Word until recently head number of users had requested a feature Perfect for Windows 6.1, with email and of credit manage- of this type and after investigating the network diary facilities across the firm’s ment at Simmons alternatives MSS opted for the present file two offices provided by Novell GroupWise. & Simmons and transfer/locking approach. A number of fee earners are also currently vice chair Meehan added that MSS ruled using the VoiceWriter speech recognition of the Institute of out an ISDN telecommunications link system. This is not, as Greensmith notes, Legal Cashiers & because although it could provide users intended to replace secretaries but is Administrators, with very fast access via the equivalent of used as a way of speeding up the drafting has formed a new a remote terminal, it was inherently of urgent instructions, which secretaries management inflexible as it required the installation of then edit to final presentation standard. consultancy. She an ISDN line and was restricted to one In another example of remote can be contacted location. In contrast, the laptop method computing, MSS now distributes Alpha- on ☎ 0181 502 allows users to work in court and at the LAW software updates by email to users 1128. offices of clients, as well as from home or who are on the Internet. The files are while commuting between them. ➥ transferred as document attachments. ❐

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BUTTERWORTHS April 9 – Financial & Marketing Management for the Bar Start of a TECHNOLOGY WINS series of weekly courses running until DTI AWARD June looking at the way IT can help The ActiveTEXT document revision barristers and chambers manage their control software system, which was practices. The course has been developed originally developed for Butterworths’ by Central Law Training in conjunction electronic publishing division, is one with Applied Computer Expertise. Call of the winners of the 1997 Informa- CLT on ☎ 0121 362 7712 for details. READER tion Society Creativity Awards. SERVICES ActiveTEXT was developed for April 16 – Excel Spreadsheets at Butterworths by Abbey Information Intermediate Level A one day advanced Systems (☎ 01306 745600) to make it training course organised by Institute of Need help or easier for legal editors to review the state Legal Cashiers & Administrators. At the information ? of the law at any one point in time, to ILCA offices in South-East London, fee If you need a ensure changes and amendments were from £200, call ILCA on ☎ 0181 294 2887 phone number, incorporated in the latest editions of for details. product name, books and current awareness publica- contact point or tions. April 16 – Unified Messaging any other elusive Abbey, whose other current Choice of three seminar sessions on the item of information projects include building a trademarks integration of voice, fax and email concerning legal Web service for Waterlow Information systems. Organised by Kommunicate Ltd technology, just Services, will be using the £50,000 prize at the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, call the Insider money to help fund further development London. Admission free, call Sandra Info line on and marketing of the ActiveTEXT system. Smith on ☎ 01252 815514 for details. ☎ 01379 687518. The awards are one of the few positive aspects of the Department of April 24 – IT for Lawyers Trade & Industry’s lacklustre Information Exhibition & Workshops One day of Society Initiative to raise awareness in seminars and supporting exhibition Hotlinks the UK of the benefits of the Internet and organised by the Society for Computers & Readers with multimedia technologies. ❐ Law in association with the Yorkshire & Internet access can North East region law societies. Speakers visit the Insider LEGAL IT DIARY DATES include Steven Vincent of Go Interactive Hotlinks pages at on the Internet, Law Society council http://www.cloudnine. March 25 – AIM Evolution Spring member Philip Hamer on IT for High co.uk/hotlinks/ Seminar Programme This week in Street practitioners, plus contributions where you will Manchester. The programme continues by Neil Cameron, John Irving and Richard find hyperlinks to until the end of May. Admission free, Susskind. Admission from £15, the the Web sites of with a choice of morning or afternoon location is the highly rated Royal organisations sessions. Call Jo Hunter on ☎ 01482 Armouries Museum in . Call the mentioned in 326971 for details. SCL on ☎ 0117 923 7393 for details. this and previous issues. April 2 – Options for Electronic May 12 – Support Services in Law Publishing Half day (am) conference Firms One day conference on human organised by Dataware Technologies on resources, technology, support staff the use of electronic publishing, CD-Rom motivation and outsourcing with and the Internet. Speakers include Law speakers from Taylor Joynson Garrett, Society publisher Carl Upsall. Admission S J Berwin and Reynolds Porter free. Location No 1 Great George Street, Chamberlain. At Radisson Marlborough London. Call Helen Wicks at Dataware Hotel, London. Call Centaur Conferences on ☎ 01895 827222 for details. ➥ on ☎ 0171 434 3711 for details. ❐

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COMMUNIC@TIONS ➦ information about the system now by checking out the company’s Web site at FUTURES http://www.corprasoft.com Direct hyperlinks to all the organisations Another US legal supplier hoping mentioned on this page can be found at to break into the UK market later this http://www.cloudnine.co.uk/hotlinks/ year is the Poseidon Group, who have Details about Web Master/FM, developed an integrated accounts, case the new outsourcing service for web site and practice management system called updating and maintenance can be found Gryphon. Capacity at http://www.cloudnine.co.uk/fm/ ❐ This is a Windows application crowd based around Microsoft Access and CapaCity Software further information is available at (☎ 01489 795095) INTRANET FOR INHOUSE http://www.poseidon.com where you can have recently sold LAWYERS ON WAY TO UK ? also email for a free demonstration an 850 user licence The Dallas-based legal software house version of the software. ❐ installation for Corprasoft Inc has announced that the their NetCon corporate legal department of the J C network Penney Company, one of America’s largest NEW LEGAL WEB SITES management department store chains and mail order Three more legal Web sites have been software to Denton catalogue retailers, has begun the beta launched within the last few weeks… Hall. The system testing of what is believed to be the first Davis & Co at http://members. will be used to intranet database application for inhouse aol.com/davislawuk/ have a site which monitor hardware lawyers. includes an article on the use of tele- and software use Called Chief Legal Office Inet, the working within law firms – the article was across the firm’s system is a matter management database originally prepared for the BILETA annual wide area PC that gives users the ability to access conference which is taking place in network at sites in information relating to litigation through Durham this week. London and Milton a standard browser, such as Netscape Davis & Co, who reckon they are Keynes. For more Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. one of the few firms to be details visit The system can be extended via a gate- incorporated, have also published an http;// www. way or extranet to also allow third article on due diligence on their site. This capacity.co.uk parties, such as outside counsel, to share is a based on a presentation the firm access to information on the database. recently gave at a conference in Moscow. Corprasoft president Carl Suther- Also new on the Web is the site land says the benefit of the system is “The belonging to Tessa Shepperson, a only workstation software needed to run solicitor who recently set up as a sole the application is a Web browser, result- practitioner in Norwich, undertaking Scottish site ing in lower deployment and support commercial and general litigation, plus Scottish legal costs, combined with a faster roll out housing/residential landlord and tenant software supplier time. This is a positive paradigm shift for work. This can be found at http:// CB Business organisations. You get all the advantages www.paston.co.uk/tjshepp Systems now has a of the Internet plus the security and Finally, and at the opposite end of Web site providing features common to traditional the spectrum, construction and IT law information about client/server applications.” specialists Masons have finally launched its Signet 2000 their Web site at http://masons.com product at http:// ☞ Comment… Texas may be far away It may have been a long time in www.cbbs.demon. but Corprasoft has declared its intention coming but IT director Martin Telfer says co.uk of breaking into the UK legal software the firm opted to develop a site that could market and will be demonstrating the deliver real business benefits rather than Inet system at the Barbican exhibition in following the traditional brochureware June. You can also obtain more ➥ marketing model for legal sites. ❐

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Alexis Byter’s ➦ currency, which most software houses reckon is going to present similar COMPUTER LORE headaches for users of accounts and financial management systems? Back from the dead The short answer seems to be The legal magazine The Eagle, last heard “What EMU problem?” with even some of of just under a year ago when its the larger UK law firms with international LEGAL publishers Stratton Publications called in practices apparently content to ignore the TECHNOLOGY the receivers, has come back from the issue. iNSIDER dead with new owners and a new editor. In fact according to one IT For editorial The new owners are The Legal supplier I spoke to last week, whose & subscriptions… Communications Society Ltd of Erith, in products are specifically targeted at the Ferndale House Kent, whose main business is publishing big “City” firms, he has yet to even receive North Lopham what are called Quill Product Cards. These an invitation to tender (ITT) that Diss, Norfolk are reader response cards that are mentions monetary union. Clearly a case IP22 2NQ either included with magazines or of not having a position on EMU but distributed by direct mail. For the record, preferring instead the ostrich position. ☎ 01379 687518 this business has no connection with the Fax: 01379 687704 long established legal IT supplier Quill No Millennium for Falcon Email: jcxtian Computer Systems. A couple of days ago the reissue of the @cloudnine.co.uk The new editor is Richard Clayton, Star Wars movie opened to packed cinema whose track record includes work with audiences throughout the UK. Elsewhere Editor: the Solicitors Journal, Legal Times and In in this issue we report on the problems Charles Christian Brief – although he is probably best that have dogged the old Pimcroft Falcon known for his time as a columnist with software package for barristers. when he ruffled feathers in Congratulations are therefore in Coming soon… Chancery Lane by christening the English order to Rod Voyce of Applied Computer We report on Law Society the “Tufty Club”. Expertise (Falcon was meant to challenge the results of our the predominance of ACE software in the consultants’ What about the EMU ? Bar market) for successfully combining survey. Don’t miss In this issue, as in other recent editions, the two stories in one press release head- the next issue: we carry a story about the computer line: “Bar Wars Saga - No Millennium for No 36 on 7th April. problems associated with the Year 2000 Falcon”. And if you don’t recognise the date change. But what about European Millennium Falcon allusion, you had Monetary Union (EMU) and the single ➥ better go to see the movie. ❐

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