CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER

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

In this ➦ to tender (or ITT) that will set out the edition… LAW SOC SAYS areas of practice management the soft- SON OF HSSK ware is intended to address. This is Two new systems expected to be ready by the early autumn. for High Street ON ITS WAY The second development is that practices… 2 With the uncertainties and mud- the Society’s July council meeting threw slinging of this year’s presidential out a proposal to abolish the practice Amerasinghe quits campaign behind it, the English Law development committee (PDC) and to Miles… 2 Society is now returning its attention replace it with three separate bodies. This to ways in which it can provide IT means the related areas of legal business Searching for assistance for smaller High Street development and IT will, sensibly, Bona Vacantia solicitors practices, with two key continue to be run by one department. ❐ with Solicitec… 3 developments taking place within the last few days. Tom Lee at Text The first is that having reviewed Insider exclusive Systems… 3 four options for a replacement for the now abandoned High Street Starter Kit VALID IN 2p PER PAGE Hatton Blue to (HSSK) project, the Society has rejected ARCHIVING INITIATIVE offer web three of them (a wholesale kite marking Valid Information Systems has given enablement… 4 product approval scheme, outsourcing LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER an the entire project to a third-party and exclusive briefing on its new secure Context reviewing badging three or four suppliers’ systems) document archiving and electronic prices… 4 in favour of awarding an exclusive retrieval service. contract to just one supplier. Called Valid Vault, it is being run New legal library Final details have yet to be by Valid in association with the Securicor consultancy… 5 announced but the way the scheme is Omega group and is formally launched at envisaged working is the project will be the end of this week, with the service GroupWise in Psion put out to open tender and awarded to commencing business at the beginning of link up… 6 the supplier who can closest meet the September. Society’s specifications on product, price Valid, already well known for its Hexar upgrade and service levels, with particular ICiRis scanning/OCR technology and FaxSwitch… 7 emphasis on training and support. R/KYV document image processing (DIP) It is also Chancery Lane’s system, has worked with Securicor to Reader services intention that while the product will create what managing director Bill and legal IT diary carry a Law Society brand name, it will Cannings believes is the most secure and dates… 7 actually be marketed, sold and supported cost effective way for law firms, and other by the supplier. heavy users of documents, to store large The Bar’s new At the time of going to print, the volumes of paper in an immediately network… 8 Law Society was still waiting for a further accessible format. report from a working party looking at the Significantly, Valid Vault will be And don’t forget to project. Once this is available, the Society available for just 2p per page, which is visit http://www. will finalise the financial side of the about 3-to-4p cheaper than comparable cloudnine.co.uk proposals and draw up an invitation ➥ services. …continued on page 5 ➥

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TWO NEW ➦ be an attractive package, not least because of its competitive pricing. For CONTENDERS FOR example, the entry-level single user TCO distances THE HIGH STREET accounts module will cost circa £750 itself Having been the Cinderellas of the although it should be noted that the time from old Dart legal IT market for too long and with recording module (scheduled for launch In the wake of the little to choose from but old DOS- later this year) is an optional extra. furore surrounding based products, the last 12 months According to David Walker of the recent abrupt have seen a surge of interest in the Solace (☎ 01780 764947) over the next closure of Dart small High Street firms sector – and year the company will roll out a range of Legal Systems Ltd, this week two more new systems have additional software applications to create which caused been announced… a fully integrated accounts, practice considerable ill-will Joining the ranks of Osprey from management and case management among the Pracctice, Kestrel from Laserform Law and suite. creditors left with the new system from Mountain Software Walker describes the 32-bit unpaid bills, Kevin are the Legal Ledger FiLOS package from Windows system as being suitable for Sparks of TCO Jackson Computer Solutions (JCS) and practices of between two and 50 fee Legal Systems Solace Legal Systems’ Millennium Suite. earners and to this end, while the initial (which now sells The JCS product is effectively a release is optimised to run on Microsoft’s Dart software) has major upgrade to the company’s existing Access database, it will be followed by a made a statement Legal Ledger II range and provides the larger SQL Server version. ❐ pointing out that same modular approach, allowing users TCO acquired the to start with accounts and time recording, intellectual to which can be added a practice JOE PUTS MILES BEHIND HIM property rights to management database and the CasMan Joe Amerasinghe, until recently head of the Dart program case management system. the legal software division at Miles 33, from an individual FiLOS (Fully Integrated Legal Of- has quit the company. Unlike his (believed to be fice System) is a 16-bit Windows product immediate predecessor Clive Deen, last Geoff Morris) and but a 32-bit version is also under heard of selling furniture, Amerasinghe is had no commercial development. Pricing starts at £1700 for remaining within the legal systems sector transactions with accounts and time recording, the data- and has taken up a new post with Dart the company base is an additional £500 and CasMan database products developer Oracle, (proprietor Geoff £900 extra. (Add VAT to all prices.) There where his brief will be to expand Oracle’s Morris). Sparks is also a basic Legal Ledger SoHo (small links with legal software developers. also confirmed that office/home office) product for very small Pending a formal review of the Geoff Morris is now firms that don’t envisage ever needing to division’s structure, Amerasinghe’s place employed by TCO. add case management software. at Miles 33 has been temporarily taken Although FiLOS has just been over by his long-time deputy Andrea announced, the product is shipping now Pointing. and has already been installed at 10 Miss Pointing refused to comment The Long existing JCS sites, so it should be on the company’s longer term plans, save Vacation thoroughly bug-free. to say Miles 33 remained fully committed Please note that JCS can be contacted on ☎ 0121 to its flagship Precedent system and that the next edition of 355 6789. The company has also opened the company was “forging ahead”. Legal Technology a new web site at http://www.jcs.co.uk but Further announcements are Insider (No.45) will some of the Java features are still under expected later this year however LTi be published on construction. understands from its own sources that Tuesday 26th The second system – Millennium two areas under consideration by Miles August. from Solace – does not become available are: facilities management/outsourcing/ until the end of August but first reports bureau services and thin client/network from beta testers suggest it is going to ➥ computer technology. ❐

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Litigation support ➦ text search capabilities and the fact it was specifically designed by an attorney Norwel LEE RESURFACES for use in litigation applications. (It can upgrade also be integrated with real-time court Toller Hales & AT TEXT SYSTEMS transcription systems, such as LiveNotes.) Collcutt, in Tom Lee, one of the original team at Text Systems now have exclusive Northamptonshire, distributor Quintec and until recently distribution rights for Summation in the is spending nearly with its successor PC Docs Europe, has UK, where it is already in use in the £100,000 on resurfaced at technology integrators London offices of a number of US law upgrading its IT Text Systems, where he is heading up firms, including Baker & McKenzie. systems, including the company’s new dedicated legal Initially the company will be installing the latest services division (Text is also active in targeting law firms in the “top 100” size version of Norwel’s the insurance market). bracket however Gary Levy believes it is practice manage- Lee’s team includes long-time Text also suitable for mid-range practices. ment system. The account manager Gary Levy and Ernie firm has been a Kramer, another former Quintec employee ☞ Comment… The UK pricing structure Norwel user since and widely rated document management for Summation is keen, with an entry- 1978. systems whiz. level single user licence costing £2000 but The new division’s brief is to be falling to £5000 for a five user licence. able to supply solicitors practices with an Interestingly Text Systems see their most Linetime integrated suite of case management, serious UK competitor as being Kelvin orders… document management and litigation McGregor’s team at DPA-Egami. Derbyshire law firm support solutions that are compatible A useful free demonstration Timms is with modern desktop PC tools, including version of Summation is available on investing £70,000 imaging. Text also plan to offer a web CD-Rom – call Text on ☎ 0171 403 4033 on upgrading its browser front end (see NUI feature in Issue or check the respective web sites at systems. The firm No.43 of the Insider) so information can be http://www.summation.com and http:// is an established accessed not only internally but also from www.textsys.co.uk ❐ Linetime user and, any web enabled PC, terminal or hand- as well as installing held computer. the latest version TREASURY SOLICITORS of the Practice II Summation IMPLEMENT SOLCASE accounts and time No prizes for guessing that the market The Bona Vacantia division of the recording software, leading DOCS Open will be the company’s Treasury Solicitor’s Department has just is also implement- preferred document management offering completed the implementation of a 37- ing Linetime’s however Text’s choice of the Summation user case management application based Context conveyan- litigation system may need a little more on Solicitec’s SolCase software. cing package. explanation. The project included creating a Originally developed in the USA by computerised storage and retrieval facility ☞ Linetime has Summation Legal Technologies, first as a for the 11,000 live cases already on the also won a contract DOS program back in 1988 and more department’s books relating to the assets from Savages in recently as a 16-bit Windows application of dissolved companies, as well as people Newcastle to (a pure 32-bit version will be released in dying intestate with no known kin. supply the three 1998), a number of independent surveys, A key element of the system is partner firm with including the most recent Chicago-Kent that it will help staff trace existing cases computerised study, have consistently rated it the in response to telephone and postal accounts and time market leader in the US. enquiries even when they only have recording. The firm The product’s closest US rivals are minimal information at their disposal, previously used a Concordance and ISYS but where it such as individuals with multiple aliases, manual ledger seems to score over the competition is in companies that have changed their cards system. its ease of use, logical interface, full ➥ names or just part of an address. ❐

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Web-enabled systems ➦ just returned from a conference in the US where database developer Progress HATTON BLUE’S was showing the latest enhancements to its products. VECTUS GETS These include the Web Speed Mercury WEB ENABLEMENT internet development tool, which is secures two Case management developer Hatton designed to make it easier to create inter- more deals Blue has added a web browser front active web enabled front ends to database Two more law firms end to Vectus 3.2, the latest version of applications. Like Hatton Blue, Solicitec have placed orders its software. says it is also receiving enquiries from law for the InControl According to Hatton Blue’s Craig firms interested in creating internet links Legal workflow and Smith, the new release takes what he to case management systems. case management describes as “relationship management” a Ewin adds that Progress has also system, which was stage further by automatically generating announced changes to its 4GL develop- developed by overviews of all dealings an organisation ment tools and made improvements to its Mercury has with each individual customer or ODBC links to make it easier to port Computing (☎ client. This feature enables a law firm to applications developed with Progress onto 01628 778222). profile their clients and build an accurate other open standard databases, including picture of their “buying patterns” over Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. Welsh giant Morgan time, thus permitting a more focused Bruce will use the marketing of new services. ☞ US legal publisher Matthew Bender system in On the technology front, a major has launched a new web site at conjunction with feature of release 3.2 is web enablement. http://www.bender.com Called Authority its LegalMIND As well as permitting, for example, law On-Demand, it has been developed in practice firm staff to access the system from home conjunction with Informix to create an management without costly ISDN or network links, it internet-based legal research service that system and is also opens up the possibility of clients allows users to purchase specific slices of already running a (subject to security measures) being able publications rather than complete pilot installation. to call up case management records via volumes. LegalMIND was an internet link to check the status of In addition to purchasing supplied by particular matters. publication content “at a granular level”, Admiral Legal Hatton Blue (☎ 01789 470493) visitors can access a web catalogue of Systems, who are says it is already talking to a number of Matthew Bender titles before paying now also firms about web enablement and expects on-line using a credit card. Informix distributors of the concept of an interactive web front describe this as a “database driven InControl. end to also be of interest to law firm commerce environment”. ❐ marketing departments. The second order Two other new features in 3.2 are: was placed by the option of a VisualBasic (VB4) CONTEXT IN PRICE REVIEW Lawrence Tucketts graphical user interface, so firms have a Electronic legal publisher Context has in Bristol, who standard Vectus screen or create their confirmed that it is reviewing its pricing intend to install own; and the adoption of the RTF format and copyright policy, in consultation InControl across for faster processing of documents and with the Incorporated Council of Law all departments integration with wordprocessors. Vectus Reporting. The aim is to create a two tier and train 60 fee now also supports the DB2 database as structure that differentiates between earners and staff to well as Informix, Oracle, Ingres, Sybase commercial users of products, such as work with it. and SQL Server. solicitors practices, and not-for-profit organisations, such as law schools who ☞ Related Developments… Neil Ewin, want to reproduce material from the the technical director of rival case Electronic Law Reports series in course management supplier Solicitec, has ➥ notes for students. ❐

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DIBBS OUTSOURCE ➦ “discrete dictation pathology software”, it acquired from Kurzweil ear- DEBT SYSTEMS lier this year. This artificial intelligence BULL INTEGRIS technology allows the software to Dibb Lupton Alsop has awarded Bull prompt users for answers as if they were Information System’s outsourcing entering information onto a form. RPC to gut old division Integris a contract to provide The initial product will be aimed network London law firm complete mainframe and bureau specifically at pathologists, with other Reynolds Porter services to support the firm’s debt versions for the legal profession and Chamberlain has management and recovery systems. police reporting to follow over the next placed a contract Dibb’s Bradford-based debt few months. ❐ worth £200,000 operations, where recent projects have with Trescray included chasing non-paying Names at Network Commu- Lloyd’s of London, had shared data VALID ARCHIVE INITIATIVE nications (☎ 0171 processing resources on the Environment ➦ continued from front page… The way 680 7200) to Agency’s mainframe in Peterborough but the new service operates is Securicor replace its old recent changes at the EA meant these couriers collect the documents to be Token Ring were no longer available. The firm will archived at predetermined intervals from network with a new now use the Integris facilities, which are the client and take them to a secure system that can located at Newhouse in Scotland and paper storage centre. support a broader also offer full disaster recovery, help desk There they are electronically bandwidth. The and support services. processed – this includes scanning, OCR change was More details can be found on work and indexing. The electronic text necessary because Bull’s web site at http://www.bull.co.uk ❐ and images files created at this stage are the firm had found then loaded onto Valid’s own extranet its existing system server, where they can be accessed, was having NEW LEGAL LIBRARY searched and retrieved on screen by users difficulty coping CONSULTANCY LAUNCHED with a desktop PC and telephone link with the movement Specialist software house Euroserve has using Valid’s encrypted HTML software. of large files to and launched a new legal library consultancy from its service for law firms wanting to reorganise ☞ Technical note… The search process document imaging or automate their practice libraries. uses web-browser style plain English (DIP) and litigation Euroserve is probably best known commands rather than the Boolean logic support systems. for its low cost Masta-lib library software of some retrieval systems. systems, which include indexing, ticket- As additional security, along with ☞ Trescray is ing and bar coding. Call Gary Simpson on the paper archive and the files on the installing a 3Com ☎ 01582 455322 for details. ❐ Valid server, a further copy is sent to hardware Securicor’s TeleVault secure (and secretly solution based on located) repository for electronic data. FDDI (fibre optic VOICE CONTROL FOR WORD The 2p per page per annum price cables) and The Belgian-based speech technology (less for firms who already have their own switched Ethernet. software vendor Lernout & Hauspie has scanning facilities) includes collection by The DIP announced that it will introduce a voice- Securicor, scanning, Valid’s secure online workstations, controlled software editor for Microsoft retrieval service, paper storage and the previously a bottle- Word in the autumn. TeleVault back-up. neck, will each Users will be able to select a As well as being technically have a dedicated sentence, underline a group of words, secure, the service would also seem to be 10Mbits bandwidth. and change the colour or size of a font, financially safe as the Securicor/Valid all by naturally spoken voice commands. partnership is backed by substantial The Lernout & Hauspie product venture capital investment. For details uses what the company calls the ➥ call Valid on ☎ 0181 518 1414. ❐

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Communications & the Net ➦ one for nearly four months, the new Series 5 is “a much more powerful GROUPWISE IN machine” than the Series 3 with “a very Seen around impressive real keyboard”. Morgan also the Web… PSION DEAL reckons the software applications are Novell and Psion have joined forces to “considerably improved” over the Series 3 ☞ Companies bring the groupware features of the and “blow away Windows CE machines”, House has begun GroupWise system to the Psion range such as the Hewlett-Packard HP 320 final beta testing of of handheld computers. which he has also used. a new extranet By using a third-party synchroni- On the otherhand Christine service called sation tool called LinkWise 2.0, Psion Gribbin, whose company Anya Designs Companies House users can now reconcile their GroupWise launched the Psion 3-based Lawbrief Direct. This will appointments, notes, tasks, anniversaries application for criminal law practitioners give subscribers the and personal address books with data last year, is rather less enthusiastic. She ability to search for held on their Psion 3a, 3c or Siena feels existing Psion users are getting “a bit company data via a machines. An additional feature of Link- of a raw deal” as Series 3 software is not dial-in service Wise 2.0 is the ability to transfer upwardly compatible and so cannot be linked to GroupWise email to the Psion. used on the latest Series 5 range unless Microsoft’s web Copies of LinkWise can be down- the entire program is rewritten. ❐ browser. The new loaded free of charge from the web site service will also belonging to the Advansys Corporation, offer fuzzy logic the program’s developers, at http://www. X2 WINNING HIGH SPEED searches and advansyscorp.com RACE ? mortgage This is a 30 day trial version and Although at one stage it looked like information taken should a user decide to purchase Link- being a two-horse race, the competition from its Mortgage Wise a unique registration key, which between the rival standards for 56 kbps Register. removes the time restriction, will be sent transmission speeds (which allow to them. Advansys should also be 33.6 kbps modem users to download contacted for further information about material from web sites at nearly double purchasing options and volume licensing. the normal speed) seems to be swinging ☞ Online In addition to LinkWise, users in favour of the x2 system from 3Com/US business data also need: the free Novell Envoy 7 stand- Robotics. provider Financial alone viewer, a 16 or 32-bit GroupWise 5x Within the last couple of weeks Times Information or 16-bit 4.1a Client for Windows, a Psion IBM’s Microelectronics Division, which has launched FT 3c, 3a or Siena and a Psion serial link manufactures , as well as the Discovery for the cable. ISPs On-line and IBM Global Net- Web, a new work have all announced support for x2. company ☞ Comment… Curiously, the new In addition, the US communications information and GroupWise link is not available for manufacturer Bay Networks and the UK’s real time news Psion’s recently launched Series 5 range. largest ISP UUNet Pipex have both alerts service that These are 32-bit machines that offer said they will now be supporting x2 as is accessible at a greater compatibility with Windows 95 well as the rival K56Flex standard. ❐ fixed price via a desktop applications and are intended to standard web compete with Microsoft’s rival Windows browser and CE system which effectively provides DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT internet Windows functionality on a handheld ON THE WEB connection. For computer. Lotus Development has announced the details check http:// Users contacted by LTi appear to immediate availability of Domino.Doc, a www.info.ft.com have mixed views about the Series 5. new web-based document management According to management consultant system designed for the network Gareth Morgan, who has been using ➥ infrastructures, so that departmental ➥

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➦ workgroups, whole law firms or even ➦ software. This is a scalable Windows virtual communities comprising of law NT based product that tightly integrates firms and their clients or legal networks fax capabilities within a firm’s existing such as, for example LawNet, can share email systems, Windows programs and ☞ INSIDER and collaborate on business documents. business applications, to provide fax SERVICES… Domino.Doc is based on the Open delivery over a variety of communications Document Management API (ODMA) channels including the internet, public industry standard and allows organisa- telephone services, private intranets and Need help or tions to securely capture, file, retrieve and other data networks. information ? distribute documents via the internet Clifford Chance, which currently If you need a using desktop applications, web browsers handles seven million fax pages a year, phone number, or Lotus Notes clients. Freshfields and Simmons & Simmons are product name, The system is based around a already planning to upgrade to the new contact point or library service that enables any user to version of FaxSwitch. ❐ any other elusive create file cabinets and folders, define item of information multiple authors, assign access rights, concerning legal control multiple versions and define Legal IT Diary Dates technology, just hierarchies in a menu-driven format call the Insider familiar to desktop applications and web September 22 & 23 – Rundle Info Line on browsers. Walker Workshops Exeter solicitors ☎ 01379 687518. At the time of going to press UK Rundle Walker, winners of the 1997 prices were not yet available however Society for Computers & Law IT Award, Hotlinks further information is available on the are launching a series of one day Readers with Lotus Discovery web site at http:// seminars on IT for High Street firms. The internet access can www.ddmdiscovery.com first two of these take place in Exeter in visit the Insider September. The cost is £295 (+VAT), call Hotlinks pages at ☞ Related development… The FileNet Jeremy Wickham on ☎ 01392 209205 for http://www.cloudnine. Corporation, which now owns the Saros details. co.uk/hotlinks/ document management system, has just where there are announced the release of its WebSeries September 25-27 – Take Two: hyperlinks to all software for managing document images the 1997 Carpe Diem User Conference the web sites and computer reports in intranet and Organised by the ProSoft Corporation, mentioned in internet applications. the developer of the popular Carpe Diem this and previous FileNet describe it as a complete package, the event takes place at the issues. out-of-the-box application for document Texas movie-making location of Las query, retrieval and viewing. WebSeries is Colinas. The standard conference fee is Insider fully compatible with both Microsoft and $495 however there are discounts for Confidential Netscape browsers and supports Java additional delegates from the same firm A new service technology. Further information can be and early reservations. ProSoft has also providing exclusive found at http://www.filenet.com ❐ organised special rates for hotels. For commissioned details call Carrie Reilly on ☎ (+1) 972 386 reports of strategic 7769 or email [email protected]. issues relating to HEXAR ANNOUNCES MAJOR the UK legal UPGRADE TO FAXSWITCH ☞ The movie RoboCop was made at Las technology market. Communications specialist Hexar (☎ Colinas and a tour of the studio area is For further details 0181 563 9000) has introduced a major included in the conference price. UK call ☎ 01379 upgrade to its FaxSwitch system that is visitors should note international flights 687518 or email designed to handle the heavy fax traffic are to Dallas/Fort Worth and that in [email protected] generated by major law firms. September the weather is “warm” – this is The new system is built around defined by ProSoft as a temperature RedBox Technologies’ Fax Router ➥ ranging from 85 to 95°F during the day.❐

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Bar News ➦ , one interesting finding has already emerged:namely that there is no BAR IN TELECOMS demand for the creation of a high band- width virtual private network within the NETWORK PILOT traditional Inns of Court area of London. You could be forgiven for thinking the As most chambers are within Bar Council’s latest videoconferencing about 5 minutes walk from each other, LEGAL initiative was just another photo barristers feel there would be no benefits TECHNOLOGY opportunity for the ubiquitous Cherie in linking them by videoconferencing. iNSIDER Booth QC but there is a serious side to So, what does happen next ? For editorial the project, as LTi reports… Assuming the evaluation draws positive & subscriptions… Since the early 1990s the Bar conclusions, at a local level Energis and Ferndale House Council has been actively championing PictureTel are expected to be named as North Lopham the use of videoconferencing technology recommended suppliers to all barristers Diss, Norfolk as an alternative to having barristers, chambers. (☞ Although these companies IP22 2NQ solicitors, witnesses, prisoners and will be offering special deals on hardware clients travelling around the country to and services, videoconference users will ☎ 01379 687518 attend routine meetings and court still have to install ISDN lines.) Fax: 01379 687704 appearances. At a broader level, the results – Email: editor@ Having enjoyed some success with particularly if they reveal a potential to cloudnine.co.uk early projects, the Bar Telecom Working reduce legal costs through cutting travel Party (chairman Cherie Booth) began times etc – will strengthen the Bar Editor: looking at ways to extend videoconferen- Council’s arm in lobbying the Home Office Charles Christian cing to the broader legal community and, and the Lord Chancellor’s Department to following the issuing of an ITT, appointed install videoconference links throughout the alternative telecoms network Energis the courts and prison systems. Next issue… and videoconferencing technology Energis is also optimistic that by Issue No 45 of supplier PictureTel to coordinate a more offering chambers a videoconference the Insider will be extensive pilot involving Queen’s Bench package, it will give the technology the published on Masters, Shrewsbury Prison and various boost it needs to become a mass market Tuesday 26th sets of chambers in London, Birmingham medium. Afterall, if more chambers have August. Don’t and Southampton. videoconferencing, it will make sense for miss it. This pilot, including the subse- more solicitors practices to also install quent evaluation of results, draws to a the technology as there will finally be close this autumn. However according ➥ someone to videoconference with. ❐

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