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NRF to Roll out Neota Logic As Innovation Takes aka ‘The Orange Rag’ Top stories in this issue… Kingfisher’s legal team trials GC Hub amid tech overhaul p.2 Thomson Reuters Business Integrity – the plan so far p.5 All the latest wins and deals p.6 New Editor for the Insider p.10 Artificial Intelligence in Law – The State of Play in 2015? p.13 NRF to roll out While it is still early days and McClead has yet to formalise how else NRF will use Neota’s apps, Neota Logic as the firm, particularly in London and South Africa, is looking at more document and process automation innovation takes hold as well as new kinds of interactive tools for clients. Kira Systems meanwhile, is almost ready to Norton Rose Fulbright’s (NRF’s) legal technology move into the tool box according to McClead. innovation architect Ryan McClead has elevated McClead said: “Where a practice area expert systems software platform Neota Logic or partner come to me with a problem, my from a proof of concept phase to using its apps team can build a prototype using a bit of this within the business, including into a potentially and a bit of that. It’s different to the traditional revenue generating compliance tool. approach of ‘we’ll go away for two years and McClead, who worked as knowledge systems come back with a quarter of what you want.’ It’s manager for Fulbright & Jaworksi before its merger usually days at most and we’ll come back and with Norton Rose in June 2013, has for the last get feedback. It becomes an iterative process.” year and a half been developing relationships He adds: “[The tool box] doesn’t allow us with start-ups and smaller technology companies to stay on top of everything but if there are tools in with a view to taking advantage of the innovation the tool box that are not keeping up we can replace springing up from that sector of the market. them or leverage our relationship to say ‘there By using the concept of ‘sand box, tool box are other tools that can do this, how long will it and window box’ McClead and his team have take to make your product do what it can do?’” been working with Neota and other companies such as Kira Systems on a trial basis. McClead said: “Keeping up with legal technology Financial Times signs is impossible, you could have 20 people working on it and still not keep up. So my response is to put up with NetDocuments everything in the sand box and try to understand what it is capable of and where it can go. The Financial Times in-house legal team has “They’re all software-as-a-service products and adopted NetDocuments’ cloud-based document that gives the firm the opportunity to play with them and management system, it has emerged, having rolled see if they have a particular use case or many use case.” out the new system towards the end of last year. Neota is in the tool box, which means NRF is now NetDocuments is used across the FT’s licensed to use Neota’s applications and over the last few four-site legal and company secretarial team weeks has been looking at different use cases within the but not the rest of the business, in a repeat of business. McClead is in the process of building a client arrangements at other NetDocuments’ in-house guide to compliance legislation, built on a microsite in clients such as Royal Mail and Westfield. HighQ’s Publisher tool and with 8 small Neota apps built into it to help determine different aspects of compliance. CONTINUES ON P.3 Conveyancing Visit www.eclipselegal.co.uk Page 1 (287) October 2015 aka ‘The Orange Rag’ Kingfisher’s legal because we were pulling together contributions 7from lawyers across Europe including France, team trials GC Hub Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and Romania against very tight commercial deadlines.” amid tech overhaul The new system has been adopted as Kingfisher The second product – currently called Case Aderantalso begins the roll out previews of SAP, which is now up and (scheduled for a Q2 2016 launch – is an all new Kingfisher’s 52-strong legal team is trialling running in Ireland and will be operational globally case management system designed to meet the new law firm performance management tool newin two years’ applications time. Wardle has been heavily involved needs of the UK & APAC high volume/low value GC Hub and embracing a raft of changes to its in creating a charter that governs the processes case and matter management market plus the US internal IT systems and processes, as the home Aderantbehind Kingfisher’stook advantage implementation of its recent Momentumof SAP. concept of repeatable process work and support improvement giant rolls out SAP and moves Kingfisher’s legal team is no stranger to conference in London to preview some of its new the North American S&B market. The new system towards a single sourcing business model. innovation and already automates its standard products. These include Spotlight, a BI system that will include its own DMS and document assembly GC Hub is a freemium platform launched forms with a built-in risk and compliance tool that combines the best of the Aderant’s current functionality (although it will also integrate with in May in which law firms and clients build their enables the business to complete a contract or ClearView and Redwood BI products but with a HP WorkSite) as well as supporting mobile own profiles and connect to one another as they diverts it to the legal team – a solution designed proactive element to highlight data problems and working on iPads. might on LinkedIn or Facebook, providing GCs by Kingfisher’s own IT team. Wardle said: “[It’s] a suggest where improvements can be made. Aderant’s Mike Barry said the company with an area to communicate with their law firms, good example of the benefits of working closely instruct them, track their performance on costs and with yourAderant’s friendly Derek local technologists.”Schutz said much of the had taken the decision to build Case from scratch automatically give them feedback at the end of a focus ofShe Spotlight’s adds: “We development as GCs need (a toweb recognise based that (including the TaskFlow customizable process matter. It also enables GCs to consolidate and keep productwe operate – unlike best asClearView, part of a itbroader does not team. require We don’t automation “glue that drives the system” because a record of their communication with law firms. SharePointhave all the – answers.scheduled Technologists for a Q3 2015 bring release) some was there was nothing on the market to buy that Each quarter law firms enter the total amount ongreat simplicity, solutions, the ways provision to allow of ‘relevant’us to do things faster, adequately met all these needs. that they have billed a client and over how many informationcheaper and and more a UX/user efficiently, experience to resolve designed the detail to He added “We are a software company matters, providing GCs with a notional blended encourageinto a clear the picture system’s and use. find Schutz ways tosaid do mostthings better. not a legal content company dabbling in software. rate that they can use to compare law firm costs. traditionalCommunication, BI ‘traffic process light’ andtype riskdashboards management were all We listen to the market and much of Aderant’s Law firms also add the quote given for work and onlywork used better for if three you involveweeks andthe technologists.”then forgotten recent success is down to our strategy of focussing how much was actually charged, allowing GCs whereas Spotlight was intended “to be easier than on the front office rather than on back office to keep track of how those numbers diverge. At picking up a phone and calling accounts!” systems.” the end of a matter GCs are asked to rank law firms out of 10 on areas such as service levels, commerciality and sticking to the agreed budget. Kingfisher’s group general counsel and Workflow company secretary Clare Wardle said: “GC Hub should enable us to get a clear handle on our costs and support more efficient working with our panel.” GC Hub’s chief executive Richard Fleetwood, a former Addleshaw Goddard commercial partner who left the firm at Christmas last year to launch the site, told Legal IT Insider: “Law firms spend tens of thousands of pounds trying to get client feedback and when they get it, it can be difficult to use and have different reference points. This is simple, quick and uniform and allows them to build up a whole host of information from clients.” In May, Fleetwood was joined by high profile former Rolls-Royce head of legal and company secretary Nigel Goldsworthy as a GC Hub director. Elsewhere, Kingfisher – which owns companies including B&Q and Screwfix - this year rolled out a SharePoint-based document management system called Fusebox as it transitions from being a set of locally-managed businesses to a single sourcing model, in an initiative branded ‘One Kingfisher’. Kingfisher operates 1,200 stores across 10 countries in Europe and Wardle, who is taking the lead on the enormous task of working around the contractual issues as individual operating companies are brought together, said: “[It was] essential to have Software for a Changing Legal Market a common respository and communication tool, Legal IT Insider (284) June 2015 Page 2 (287) October 2015 aka ‘The Orange Rag’ 3 Legal software for the new era Find out more at www.soslegal.co.uk/demo Copyright Solicitors Own Software Ltd 2013 and Taylor Wessing UK.
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