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LEGAL TECHNOLOGY Insider CHARLES CHRISTIAN’s LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WHAT’S HOT (AND WHAT’S NOT) IN LAW OFFICE SYSTEMS NT FEVER AS ➦ other firms that had only recently moved into a Windows 3x environment. BERWINS PUTS Windows NT also made an impact on this year’s Solicitors & Legal Office IT ON DESKTOP Exhibition at the Barbican, with not just It looks like 1996 will be remembered the big suppliers, such as Axxia Systems as the year the legal market finally and AIM Professional, talking about their embraced Microsoft Windows NT, both forthcoming NT launches but also a IN THIS as a server and as a desktop platform. growing number of smaller suppliers now EDITIONÉ In addition to NT clearly being “flavour committed to this route. This month sees of the month” at the recent Barbican Hereford-based Pracctice commence live Avenue back on the Exhibition, the last few days have also beta testing of its Windows NT upgrade at right road ? … 2 seen two major NT-based orders being two of its user firms. placed. Jobs crisis ahead Fareham-based solicitors Blake ☞ Comment… Ten months ago Dundas for legal IT Lapthorn has just signed a £60,000 deal & Wilson in Scotland rejected Windows sector ?… 3 with Lawtech for the supply of the NT as its practice wide platform because Windows NT version of The Beaver of doubts about performance. Today it GroupWise set for Corporation’s Arms debt recovery system. seems no-one can get enough of NT. And autumn launch… 4 This was promptly topped by its not just in the legal market. For Mercury Computing winning an order, example, Norwich Union has embarked OS/2 and the officially described as “worth in excess of on migrating 3500 PCs users from DOS, “skinny” client… 4 £500,000”, from Berwin Leighton who will Windows 3X and OS/2 platforms to be installing a network of 400 Pentium Windows NT workstations. IT for the switched 133MHz PCs running Windows NT Work- Chris Cann of Morgan Bruce, one on sole station on the desktop. Initially the firm of the first firms to commit to NT in a big practitioner… 5 will be running NT 3.5.1 but will move to way, says an incidental benefit they NT Workstation 4.0 once final beta discovered with NT as a server was that it IBM overhaul testing is complete. enabled them to continue using the speech Berwin Leighton, which uses the existing link between the Swansea and recognition… 6 Unix-based Norwel practice management Cardiff offices, whereas if they had stayed system for core administrative operations, with a Unix/Novell platform, they would Susskind’s vision is also installing the Microsoft Office suite have needed to spend some £150,000 of the future of and Exchange email products, along with upgrading the comms hardware. ❐ the law… 6 document management and imaging from Lava Systems. Microsoft targets Mercury Computing’s commercial IBM OS/2 FINISHED ? the intranet… 7 director Alby Smith said the move made a The Corel Corporation, the new owner of lot of sense as Berwin Leighton had WordPerfect, has announced it will no LINK upgrade previously been running ICL OfficePower longer be supporting IBM OS/2 as an delays… 7 on Unix and so could now “leapfrog the operating platform for what once was the competition” by going straight to NT on legal world’s favourite wordprocessor. the desktop, an option not open to ➥ For full story see page 4… ➥ Issue No 17 ❶ 17 June 1996 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER NEWS ➧ VIEWS ➧ MOVES ➧ DEALS ➧ DATA AVENUE BACK ON ➦ integration with Avenue products and believes the Oyez forms to be technically THE RIGHT ROAD ? the most sophisticated on the market. SELF After spending the last two years in ASSESSMENT the doldrums, Avenue Legal Systems ☞ Comment… Through its Kestrel IN 1997 ? has bounced back on form as one of accounts and Intelliforms systems, Laser- With self the English market’s “top five” legal IT form Law is now effectively a competitor assessment for tax- suppliers with the launch of its next of suppliers like Avenue. MCS has also payers looming in generation Wisdom system. dropped Laserform and others are under- 1997, legal Building on the original “Time for stood to be reviewing their position. systems house Windows” onscreen time recorder and Wisdom was developed by Avenue Professional Tech- last year’s FREDA (front end desktop from using Powersoft’s PowerBuilder applica- nology (☎ 01634 Avenue) concept, Wisdom is an all-new tion development tool. Although not so 815517) can now client/server system based on a relational well known in the UK, in the USA Power offer a range of tax database, which the company sees as the Builder is a head to head competitor of calculation successor to its Solomon II product. Delphi and Visual Basic. software to run in The system has a consistent PowerBuilder will support a wide conjunction with graphical user interface which can be range of ODBC compliant relational data its Seriatim and customised to meet the needs of individ- bases although the default choice is Quaestor accounts ual users by the addition or removal of Watcom, which was recently renamed packages. application modules. Sybase SQL Anywhere. Avenue offer this, These are denoted by Windows as do Access Legal Systems, which has Professional Tech- icons or “buttons” at the bottom of the also recently redeveloped its products nology this year PC screen and also reflected in the around a relational database. ❐ celebrates its 10th product’s pricing structure. Rather than year in the legal IT the more common arrangement of rigid business. “licence breaks” based on the number of SHELTONS GO FOR QNIX concurrent users, Wisdom’s price will be Nottingham based Sheltons has placed a based on “the number of buttons per PC”. contract worth £180,000 with Sanderson Wisdom is already available on GA (☎ 0121 359 4861) for a practice wide GOING FOR Windows for Workgroups and Novell office automation and financial manage- GOLD platforms, while the Windows NT and ment system. The first phase will see PC Elan Software’s Windows 95 versions are undergoing final local area networks installed in the firm’s GoldMine work beta testing. five offices, as well as the branches being groups contact According to Avenue (☎ 01489 linked by a WAN. management 885888) sales director Michael Belas, the In the next phase Sheltons will system is now legal IT market is finally recovering some install a new accounts system along with available for of its old buoyancy, with Avenue itself Qnix case management and time record- Windows 95. New seeing a 30% increase in new business ing software. The firm is already trialling features include over the last six months, compared with the Qnix conveyancing module. ❐ Internet the same period last year. integration so As well as having the new Wisdom users can send and product in its portfolio, Avenue has also POSTAL STRIKE MEASURES receive email. The been appointed the first UK dealer for Although this week’s threatened strike by UK distributor is Oyez Legal Software’s electronic forms. UK post office workers should not have AVG Sales (☎ 0171 Although Avenue was initially attracted effected deliveries of the current issue, 454 1790). to Oyez because it was unhappy with the should the strike escalate, wherever direction its existing electronic forms possible LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER supplier Laserform was taking, technical will be distributed by DX or fax. Fax director Kevin MacDonald has examined recipients will also be sent their normal the software from the point of view of ➥ copies when the strike ends. ❐ Issue No 17 ❷ 17 June 1996 LEGAL TECHNOLOGY iNSIDER NEWS ➧ VIEWS ➧ MOVES ➧ DEALS ➧ DATA JOB CRISIS ➦ them feeling highly frustrated,” says Atherton. “In fact several IT managers we LOOMING IN LEGAL originally approached about vacancies in IT SECTOR ? their own practices have subsequently Within the last ten days four of the indicated they are unhappy and are also UK’s leading legal technology suppliers looking to move on.” have announced that they either have or are about to recruit extra sales and ☞ Comment… Nothing more clearly support staff. But with a growing demonstrates the shortage of suitable numbers of law firms also looking to candidates than the current two-way LEGAL IT recruit both senior and junior level IT traffic between law firms and legal IT DIRECTORY staff, are there enough candidates to suppliers. For example one of Axxia’s new OUT NOW go around? LTi reports… staff, Helen Billing, is a legal executive The third edition of AIM Professional has recruited who previously worked for a firm of The Legal Tech- four additional sales staff. Avenue Legal solicitors. Whereas over at Jeffrey Green nology Directory is and The Beaver Corporation are currently Russell, their IT manager Alison Sykes now out. It looking for additional sales staff who has a track record in legal IT with contains details on have experience of the legal market. SOS suppliers ICL, Star and Admiral Legal. ❐ 40 of the leading is advertising for four new staff sales and suppliers serving support staff. And Axxia Systems, which the legal IT market has recently appointed Bill Kirby (ex- MCS CLIP MURPHY’S WINGS in England & Wales. Wellman Group/ Newbury Data) as the Following proceedings in the High Court Nearly 10,000 company’s new sales director, has already in London, MicroComputer Services has copies have already recruited one additional sales executive secured an undertaking from former been distributed to and is now looking for two more. salesman Stephen Murphy not to law firms. Extra Meanwhile on the other side of “market, sell or help to develop for Applied copies are available the fence, legal headhunters Longbridge Computer Expertise… software which at £10 each from Consultancy (☎ 0171 726 4011) has just competes directly” with the DPS range of Marketeer on ☎ opened a new division to provide perma- case management systems.
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