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Issue 52 ❶ 8 December 1997 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY Insider LATEST NEWS COMMENT & ANALYSIS CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s £5.00 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER http://www.cloudnine.co.uk THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WHAT’S HOT (AND WHAT’S NOT) IN LAW OFFICE SYSTEMS In association with ➦ Diary Planner application will have a SUPPLIER viable future as a stand-alone diary MELTDOWN scheduler for NT network users both in the solicitors market and the general ON THE WAY ? business community. The long predicted shakeout of players The second supplier apparently In this within the UK legal technology market planning to bow out of the market is the edition… may finally be underway with the news legal systems division of Admiral plc. last week that two more suppliers Admiral entered the market as English and Scots were up for sale. recently as 1994, after acquiring the legal law societies in The supplier preparing to make software interests of Sumlock Legal and new small firms IT the most public departure is Applied Hay Logic. But, although its Windows initiatives… 2 Computer Expertise (ACE) which has NT-based LegalMind (previously Amicus) been selling the Infinity practice and case practice management system initially Solicitec previews management system into the solicitors attracted a lot of interest, in recent new web-enabled market since 1991 and currently has the months it has consistently been the case manager… 3 product running in some 25 English law runner-up in law firm beauty parades to firms falling into the bigger High newer products, such as CMS Open, that Speech recognition Street/larger town size of practice. were felt to offer more functionality. (The systems - IBM ACE managing director Rod Voyce company also tried but failed to gain a still not speaking told LTi that faced with “disappointing foothold in the Scottish market.) clearly… 4 sales” and “too much competition” the Admiral’s problems have been company had “had enough” and decided compounded by the recent collapse of its Driving a hard to sell its solicitors systems division so it case management systems partner bargain - how some could concentrate its development and Mercury Computing with its InControl law firms are support efforts on its core business of product and LTi has now learned that nailing IT administration systems for barristers Admiral is involved in preliminary talks suppliers… 4 chambers. (ACE has been the market with at least one other legal IT supplier leader in this sector for over a decade but about selling its legal systems division . Jobs - raising the has recently been facing increasingly stiff At the last count, the LegalMind profile of IT… 5 competition from Meridian Law.) product was in use in some 25 firms. ACE is interested in selling the With the exception of the Welsh giant Lexis to carry Infinity business (although some of the Morgan Bruce, most of these sites also fell advertising… 6 sales staff, including former sales into the bigger High Street/larger town manager Stephen Murphy, have now left size of practice. Latest internet and the company) to either another legal On a more positive note, LTi communications systems supplier or a consortium of understands that moves by Resolution development… 6 user firms. Systems to buy the rights to Mercury’s Voyce says the majority of Infinity InControl Legal case management system Legal technology users sympathise with the logic behind have now entered the contractual diary dates… 7 the decision and that ACE will in the negotiations stage and are expected to be meantime honour all existing contracts. finalised by the New Year. LTi also hopes Top legal IT Although ACE is to concentrate by then to be able to report on the status jobs… 8 most of its resources on the Bar, the of the PMS project Resolution Systems company also has hopes its Infinity ➥ was implementing at Herbert Smith. ❐ Issue 52 ❶ 8 December 1997 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER LATEST NEWS COMMENT & ANALYSIS ENGLISH AND SCOTS ➦ and Chancery Lane is interested in LAW SOCIETIES IN meeting with suppliers to discuss how the project could be made to work. NEW SMALL FIRMS The Law Society is now in the IT INITIATIVES process of contacting suppliers and CPL now Y2K Both the English and Scottish Law would like to receive initial responses by compliant Societies have this month embarked Friday 9th January, with a view to Welsh accounting on new initiatives to make it easier holding meetings during the course of software house for small firms to acquire IT systems that month and finalising arrangements CPL (☎ 01758 that will help their practices. in February. 613035) has Chancery Lane’s intention is to There would then be a three announced that enter into “an active business partner- month pilot project “not so much to test Version 4.2, the ship with suitable suppliers” who will products which we hope are already latest release of its work with the Society on the supply of proven but to test the delivery relation- Accounts 2 for the “extremely competitively priced” practice ships and mechanisms”. Initial responses Solicitor system, is management software. should be directed to John Miller, director fully millennium The Law Society has already of membership services. proof. All new CPL established a relationship with a supplier installations since of what is described as “never knowingly And in Scotland 1st October 1997 undersold” hardware and standard The Law Society of Scotland’s approach have been of V4.2 software (such as Microsoft Office) and has been to select three potential and registered any legal software supplier “must be software suppliers who will develop pack- users of V4.1 willing to work with this organisation to ages suitable for the “average” Scottish qualify for a free ensure seamless maintenance and law firm, which tend to fall into the 2 to 3 upgrade. support for mutual customers”. partner size. (☞ Curiously, given the Chancery Lane’s shopping list is enthusiasm for home rule, all these ☞ The DOS-based for systems running on Windows 95/NT, suppliers are English although LTi under- product was preferably 32 bit, fully networkable stands a number of Scottish IT suppliers originally launched platforms. (☞ This makes a lot of sense as are lobbying to be included on the list.) in 1983, currently smaller firms tend to replace their systems The three companies currently sells from £1100 less frequently and so it is quite likely some involved are: Bath-based RT Business and is targeted at of the software will still be in use in the Solutions, an offshoot of accountants small (two to six year 2005.) As to software functionality, Robson Taylor, with a Lotus Notes partner) firms. the Society is looking for integrated solution; Warren Wander’s Office client/matter database, accounts, time Solutions group in Manchester, which is Clarke & Co recording, document assembly/production/ working on a Microsoft Access-based pioneer ULR management and diary scheduling. product; and legal systems supplier Curat Bournemouth- Initially case management appli- Lex, which has already been selling a based Clarke & Co cations are not a requirement but the version of its Sovereign Law case and has become the system must be sufficiently “open” that it practice management into the Scottish first firm in the UK could be integrated with third party case solicitors market for a couple of years. to go “live” with a management software. The Law Society Both RT and Office Solutions were new uninsured loss also warn that the typical users of these originally involved in the English Law recovery system systems will be firms with little or no Society’s ill-starred High Street Starter Kit based on the existing IT, no inhouse IT support and (HSSK) project and LTi sources suggest DataFlow case “have a low level of IT literacy in the firm that Curat Lex (whose software is based management as a whole”. on the Sage Sovereign accounts and software from Unlike earlier initiatives, when the Microsoft Office products) is at the most Linetime (☎ 0113 Law Society council seemed bent on advanced stage of development with a 250 0020). steaming ahead regardless of commercial system already running on a pilot basis reality, this time nothing is set in stone➥ in one Scottish solicitors practice. ❐ Issue 52 ❷ 8 December 1997 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER LATEST NEWS COMMENT & ANALYSIS Web-enabled systems ➦ As part of its marketing activities, MSS NEW SOLICITEC is also going to be offering a number of Rumours software utilities that can be downloaded rebutted… SYSTEM STOPS from its web site and used free of charge. THE SHOW The first of these will be an Expense of ☞ Miles 33 says it Although there were a number of case Time calculator. MSS is on ☎ 01252 will take legal management systems on display at 371121 and its web site is at http:// action against the last month’s LITigate ‘97 conference, www.mss-alphalaw.co.uk ❐ sales staff of the undoubted show-stopper was competitors found SolCase Online, the new web-enabled spreading rumours version of Solicitec’s already widely MORTON FRASER GOES FOR that the company used case management product. CASE MANAGEMENT UNIT is in trouble. These As the name implies, the system Top ten Scottish firm Morton Fraser has arose after it was provides a browser interface to the created a dedicated case management noticed the Miles company’s case management system, so it unit to take maximum advantage of its 33 sign had been can be used in internet/extranet/intranet recently installed Arista case manage- removed from the applications, and is fully user definable ment system from Axxia (☎ 0118 960 company’s Old so online client/fee earner interaction 2602). Bracknell Lane can be as extensive or narrow as needed. Morton Fraser chief executive offices.
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