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Change Places for Firms and Vendors The Orange Rag www.legaltechnology.com February’s big deals Mills & Reeve select Recommind Mills & Reeve has become the latest UK firm to select Recommind’s Mindserver enterprise search system to power it’s knowledge management platform. Blackadders have a cunning workflow All change places for The private client department at Dundee- based Blackadders has implemented a firms and vendors new Executry/Probate BPM/workflow There’s a lot of movement taking place in law firm and system from FloSuite. The firm says the supplier senior management. At Osborne Clarke, which system, which handles both testate and has just announced a £50 million, 7 year outsourcing deal intestate matters, has already generated with Integreon, among the 75 staff moving from the firm to efficiency gains of around 50% in the Integreon (under the TUPE deal) are chief operating officer processing of executries. Chris Bull, who joins Integreon as European COO with immediate effect, plus the firm’s infrastructure & IT head Two more sign up for Litera Nathan Hayes and head of information services Eleanor Two more UK law firms – Thomas Eggar Windsor. At LexisNexis, Aamir Yusuf, the head of and Freshfields Brickhaus Deringer – have development for the practice & productivity management selected the Litera Corp’s Change-Pro business (aka the old Axxia and Visualfiles operations) has ‘total document comparison’ software. resigned and will join the IRIS Group once he’s cleared his The Litera system is claimed to be the only 3 month notice period. Meanwhile the LexisNexis team product that can compare all aspects of a has been joined by Peter Dye and Matt Gregg as, document, including embedded objects respectively, commercial director (corporate & public (Excel, Visio), and inserted images (jpeg, sector) and head of professional services. tiff, bmp, gif etc) as well as offer redlining in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF. www.litera.com February’s big launch: Eclipse DMS A long standing grumble among many firms is while they Plan-Net wins Simmons contract need more than they have at the moment to deal with In the latest phase of its Programme document management, they cannot justify the investment Vanilla technology refresh, Simmons & in a full-blown DMS. Eclipse Legal Systems is hoping to Simmons has selected niche IT support gain ground here with the launch of enhanced document provider Plan-Net to supply a global management functionality in its Proclaim software. The service desk. enhancements comprise: an EDS (economic document send) tool to manage document generation (by email, fax Wedlake Bell refreshes comms with NEC or hard copy) on a per-client or per-document basis in line Wedlake Bell has gone live with a new with SLAs and client preferences; and a GKS global search open standard, SIP based communications tool. The latter offers keyword searching within Proclaim infrastructure from NEC Philips Unified and across a firm’s entire network. Results can be saved Solutions. The project includes an email within a precedent or knowledge bank for subsequent use. upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007. UK & EMEA news Legal Technology Insider (217) February 2009 2 New product launches Harper Macleod BI project ClearPeople’s new Sharepoint products on track thanks to Acuo ClearPeople has launched two Sharepoint Back in September we reported on the fallout surrounding desktop tools – CorpCast and PeoplePoint the collapse of Glasgow software house EJS and fate of its – for the legal market. CorpCast provides a Law Cube business intelligence system, which had been way to notify users in real-time of any installed at Harper Macleod. Since then, Acuo Consulting changes to Sharepoint lists and (0141 204 2678) has acquired the IP rights to the system PeoplePoint allows access to Sharepoint from the liquidators and moved in to Harper Macleod. personal profiles direct from the desktop. According to Acuo managing director Forbes Hamilton, www.clearpeople.com/SharePointDesktopTools the original Law Cube product was “not fit for purpose” with data refreshes taking at least 2 hours to run, the MDA Searchflow launch HIP locator system often failing “due to coding errors” and requiring a MDA Searchflow has announced plans for separate server to handle the processing. a free online ‘HIP locator’ to provide conveyancers with a single point to locate Since then, Acuo has redesigned the product – now called home information packs and order any Law3 – “from the ground up” to provide greater analysis refreshed or additional online searches capabilities and faster processing. The new version, which necessary to progress a transaction. The runs on the firm’s Pilgrim Lawsoft PMS platform, has now HIP locator service will be available free reduced reporting times from over 2 hours to between 7- of charge to conveyancers who log in or to-12 minutes. Based on the results from Harper Macleod, register with MDA Searchflow to request a Acuo estimate Law3 can pay for itself in six weeks – the search, and also for estate agents and HIP payback coming from increased billings through better fee companies to participate and lodge HIPs. earner focus on billable work. www.searchflow.co.uk In other Law3 news, Acuo has changed its pricing model Giving an easy start to managed services to a licence fee of £2500 per month for the first year, e-know.net has launched an ‘easyStart’ followed by £625 per month thereafter. Acuo is also taking option for law firms concerned about the legal action against Decision Solutions, another EJS financial aspects of switching to managed offshoot, alleging Decision Solutions’ own new BI product services in a recession. Managing director Legal-i uses core code associated with the old Law Cube Nigel Redwood said that while the product. Back in October, Vickilynn Clark of Decision ongoing monthly pay-as-you-use pricing Solutions told us she planned an immediate rebuttal to model was attractive, even the relatively Acuo’s allegations. small upfront capital outlay migration www.acuo-consulting.com projects demand (to cover consultancy and implementation) was a deterrent. e-know.net has therefore introduced Microsystems extends UK hours easyStart to eliminate these outlays by Microsystems has extended its email-based Document offering discounts on hardware, a 20% cut Emergency Room (DocER) support hours for UK in consultancy rates and the ability to roll customers. The service – which can turn around repairs consultancy fees into a standard contract (such as problems with formatting, numbering and version amortised over 36 months. migrations) to Word and PDF documents in two hours – is www.e-know.net now available from 9:00am to 2:00am. Legal Technology Insider (217) February 2009 3 incumbent IRIS Opsis system in favour Workshare end-of-lifing of TFB’s conveyancing software and is also installing TFB’s Digital Dashboard DeltaView redliner desktop reporting application. With the formal end-of-life for Workshare’s market leading redliner product DeltaView now just over a month away Eversheds unified with Azzurri on 31st March, the company says over 75% of existing Eversheds has completed the DeltaView customers have already demonstrated their implementation of a new LAN and IP faith in the company by migrating to the Workshare telephony unified communications Professional product. infrastructure at its head office. The system was designed and deployed by Workshare currently has over 500 organisations signed up Azzuri Communications. as beta sites for Workshare Professional service release www.azzurricommunications.com 2.0. New features of sr2.0 include the ability to run document comparisons on embedded Excel tables, All systems Geo for Taylor Wessing metadata cleaning for Blackberrys and more centrally Fibre networks provider Geo has signed a managed, server-end processing, including support for long term contract with Taylor Wessing to SOA (server oriented architecture) via Sharepoint portals. supply a dedicated fibre optic network • In a related development... Workshare and document linking the firm’s New Street Square EC4 recognition specialist ABBYY are to work together to offices and with its central London integrate ABBYY’s OCR technology into Workshare datacentre. The network will be routed Professional. Workshare CEO Alan Fraser said the reason through the City’s Victorian sewers. for the partnership was “Our customers are demanding www.geo-uk.net document comparison and recognition solutions to support a full range of PDF files and documents.” Customer service pays off www.abbyy.com East Anglian law firm Kenneth Bush Solicitors is upgrading its hardware and software to run the latest Liberate version New wins of Linetime’s accounts and case management software, along with Three more firms connect with SOS Linetime’s B2C web access portal. The Three more firms have ordered the SOS Connect practice firm has been running Linetime software and case management system. The firms are 6 partner since 1990, managing partner Jonathan Toller Beattie LLP in Barnstable, plus Heaney Watson in Eales commenting “Robust and functional Liverpool and Cooke Young Keidan in central London. software is important but the ongoing • JBS Solicitors, a new start-up, has become the latest firm support and commitment of your software to sign up for the SOS Virtual Practices SaaS and supplier is just as vital.” outsourced legal cashiering service Rouse & Co decide to Track-It! And three more wins for TFB Rouse & Co has selected Numara TFB has also announced three more firms taking up its Software’s
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