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The Orange Rag www.legaltechnology.com March’s big deals Jersey group selects Pilgrim Lawsoft The Jersey-based legal and professional services business BakerPlatt Group has selected Pilgrim’s Lawsoft system as its new practice management platform. Commenting on the decision to roll out Lawsoft across the group’s three divisions Osborne Clarke no (Forward, KYC 360 and the law firm Baker Platt) Baker Platt’s practice director Jim one-off say Integreon Scott (previously the FD at Ogier) said it Since Integreon first announced its outsourcing deal with was the “breadth and depth” of Lawsoft Osborne Clarke in early February (which included the that impressed, with its ability to handle appointment of Osborne’s COO Chris Bull as Integreon’s financial management along with CRM, European COO) Integreon’s president of global sales & workflows and document and email marketing John Croft has told the Insider he is confident management. the deal is not a one-off but will be followed by other orders. Croft continues “Since the announcement, we have Three more firms go with Microsystems met with the chief operating officers or other senior Three more firms in the UK – Mishcon de managers of many top 50 UK law firms. All approached Reya, Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy and us, not the other way round, and all ...continued on page 8 EMW Picton Howell – have purchased Microsystems software for their document production environments. March’s big launch: Anlys BI Anlys, a company (new to the Insider) that specialises in Hammonds switch to DocsCorp BI, has created a sales analysis OLAP (online analytical Hammonds LLP is to deploy DocsCorp’s processing) cube for the law firm Watson Burton. pdfDocs Solutions Suite to help them Extracting data from the firm’s Pilgrim Lawsoft PMS and manage document comparison, PDF using Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio, creation, document bundling and the cube generates data that can be accessed directly using metadata removal. The firm had Excel. Looking to the future, plans include writing reports previously been a Workshare site. in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) against the cube • Norwegian law firm Bugge Arentz and extending the BI approach to include nominal ledger, Hansen & Rasmussen has selected accounts receivable and WIP. DocsCorp’s compareDocs software to replace its Workshare DeltaView system. The firm’s IT manager Jonathan Smith says the system “can provide much faster turnaround on ad-hoc information London transport gets e-discovery requests and give users the freedom to analyse data far Transport for London (TfL) has awarded more effectively than they could using Crystal reports.” Guidance Software a contract to use its Anlys director Steve Gray says an added bonus is many BI EnCase software to help process fraud, users already own most of the software (Excel, SQL) data audits, internal investigations and needed to get up and running with business intelligence. e-discovery projects. www.anlys.co.uk www.guidancesoftware.com UK & EMEA news Legal Technology Insider (218) March 2009 2 New product launches Amicus Attorney gets Legal Inc in Clearwell deal new UK distributor Litigation support services provider Legal Earlier this month, Toronto-based Gavel & Gown Software Inc has obtained the exclusive UK rights to Inc appointed I-Quest Ltd (020 7902 1970) as its new host Clearwell Systems’ highly rated distribution partner for its Amicus Attorney file, diary, e-disclosure platform. The Clearwell contacts and schedule management software in the UK system (which it is claimed can reduce and Ireland. The move comes as Gavel & Gown seeks to processing costs by up to 80%) was one of build up interest in the UK for its new 2009 Premium the standout products at this year’s Legal Edition, which the company sees as offering an attractive Tech New York. To arrange a demo of the practice management solution for larger law firms, software contact Nick Pollard at whereas Amicus Attorney has traditionally been seen in [email protected] the UK as a system for sole practitioners and small firms. More MDA Searchflow launches In terms of the impact of existing channels, Alan Roberts MDA Searchflow has added two more and his Gavel & Gown UK business continue to be an offerings to its product portfolio. The first Amicus Attorney reseller and will continue first line is an electronic land referencing service, support to their existing and any new customers. I-Quest, that allows conveyancers to overlay and as distributor, will provide second line support to all store title documents against a map, to resellers and is currently recruiting new resellers. The provide a clear visual representation of the Insider understands that Geon Legal Solutions in Dublin full extent of property ownership, has already been recruited and that ‘several others in the including gaps, ransom strips and other UK are close to signing’. potentially problematic issues. The second offering is a new, easy-to-order range of • I-Quest is also the UK distributor for a new document, legal indemnity insurance from TitleSolv, records and workflow management system called CLS, First Title and Norwich Union/Aviva. FileHold, that is currently being trialed by a top 250 firm. www.searchflow.co.uk • The Amicus Attorney product suite now also includes a time, billing and accounts system, as well as mobile Eclipse tackles consumer credit litigation edition for Blackberrys and Windows Mobile PDAs. Eclipse Legal Systems has launched a new www.i-questltd.com case management module aimed at the www.geonlegal.com rapidly expanding consumer credit www.amicusattorney.com litigation market. The new module enables firms to manage ‘payment protection insurance’ (PPI) cases for consumers who AlphaLaw debt product roll-out believe they have been missold insurance IRIS Legal has announced that as well as providing on mortgages, loans and credit cards. ongoing support for customers running AlphaLaw’s Esprit, Eclipse sales director Russell Thomson Vantage and Uno software, AlphaLaw’s ClaimIT debt said the module was a logical extension to recovery system is to become one of IRIS Legal’s flagship the company’s Proclaim case management products and will be made available to all IRIS customers. software, which was already widely used ClaimIT is designed to automate, simplify and generally to manage endowment misselling and improve the recovery of unpaid bills and invoices both in excessive bank charges claims. debt recovery agency and internal credit control scenarios. Legal Technology Insider (218) March 2009 3 No ‘parking’ problems New wins for Solcara offshore Sapphire shines for Bedell Two Channel Island-based law firms – Carey Olsen and The Jersey-based legal and fiduciary group Mourant du Feu & Jeune – have selected and deployed Bedell has awarded the security Solcara SolSearch systems for search and KM-related work. consultancy Sapphire a contract to test Mourant, who also took Solcara’s Know How product, and ‘significantly strengthen’ the firm’s have used the Solcara software to underpin the firm’s new external-facing security systems, so as to Morlaw portal, which head of KM Liz Machin describes as be able to demonstrate to clients and “one electronic home for all legal knowledge in three prospects that it has adopted a best parts: knowledge, one stop search and news”. practice approach to network security. The project includes implementing more Carey Olsen IT director Stuart Bush said the decision to go secure firewalls and authentication for with Solcara came after considering the ‘build it or buy it’ remote access, based on Microsoft’s debate. “Inhouse projects have the potential to grow out of Intelligent Application Gateway. all proportion. You start with one or two programmers. www.sapphire.net They need back up and before you know it you have an inhouse software company. I deliberately avoided that New draft billing goes into Wragges approach, partly because writing bespoke software or Wragge & Co has taken delivery of a new manipulating packages can end up becoming very draft billing system. Called PreBill expensive.” Bush says another disadvantage of creating Manager and developed by US software bespoke systems is “You lose the input from other users. If developers Randy Steere LLC, the system you choose the same best-of-breed solution as other firms, was ordered in December, installed by you benefit from enhancements developed in response to Saturn27 at the end of January, and rolled suggestions from the wider community.” out firmwide by late February. The new • Case studies on the Carey Olsen and Mourant projects system, which runs in conjunction with can be downloaded from www.solcara.com/mediacentre/ Wragge & Co’s Aderant PMS, replaces an earlier report and paper based process Solcara’s managing director Rob Martin said that while, in that utilised a combination of Business the current economic climate, many firms were ‘parking’ Objects and Crystal Reports together with or putting on hold larger KM/DMS projects, they were still fee earner matter management and looking for quick wins to help deliver an immediate RoI frequently manually amended billing and improve efficiencies, with the result that SolSearch guide reports. was continuing to attract a lot of attention as a way of providing more efficient and effective searching across FFW to save on print both internal and online information sources. Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed Right Document Solutions (020 7466 The ‘legislation connectors’ in SolSearch have also been 4700) to deploy 40+ Ricoh MFDs and enhanced to support the automatic parsing and targeting of printroom systems, along with the latest federated searches of legislative resources so as to provide eCopy scan management and Equitrac more specific results. Professional cost recovery and print • The Insider understands that three other firms – two in management software to improve the London and one in Dublin – are also in the middle of tracking and recharging of print costs.