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Comment: The Spanish legal IT scene – is Spain really different ?
by Eva Bruch* Quite at the beginning of my professional career as a lawyer, I was fortunate to work in a law firm, it was a subsidiary of a larger corporate structure where management was …
ClearPeople Legal IT Event: Enhancing legal business efficiency through the use of IT – 27 June, London
Learn how to improve your internal efficiencies, boost ROI on existing IT infrastructure and increase profitability at this FREE ClearPeople Legal IT event. ClearPeople has over a decade of experience in delivering industry-leading document management, intranet, extranet and website solutions for some of the UK’s leading law firms and corporate legal departments, and is proud to present this upcoming seminar on enhancing efficiencies in the legal sector at Microsoft’s office at Cardinal Place in London on 27 June.
Law Firm Service Delivery Manager – Law Firm, Southampton
Our Client is a regional Law Firm who are an ambitious and forward thinking organisation with a key focus on technology within the firm. The company has key strengths within Property, Corporate & Commercial Law and Land & Development. A position has arisen for a Service Delivery Manager who will work alongside the Head of IT and IT Service providers.
Latest UK wins: Rekoop take DLA + Peppermint signs up Brethertons
Two wins to report this morning: first up time capture specialist rekoop has marked the end of a successful first quarter with details of its largest ever contract win. It has been appointed by global giant DLA Piper to implement its mobile time recording solution to potentially 2500 lawyers worldwide, with only the Americas falling outside the scope of this project.
Comment: Three reasons why law firms need more research
Three are at least three reasons why law firms need to use more research in making decisions. In this context research refers to fact gathering, analysis and interpretation of law firms’ markets, clients, competitors and staff… say George Beaton.
Advanced Legal clock up 26 deals since January
Advanced Legal (the company previously known as IRIS Legal) today announced strong sales of its flagship ILB practice management system, with deals worth nearly £1 million closed inside the first four months of 2013. And the business is targeting more growth to build on this early success.
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Select Legal launch their coffee-break video case studies
UK legal software supplier Select Legal Systems has produced three coffee-break sized video case studies, each featuring a different law firm – Cartwright King, Silver Fitzgerald and H&R Hughes – using the company’s LawFusion system.
IT Trainer- Consultant, home based (Midlands ideally) up to £24k + £4,200 Car Allowance
Our client is a a global organisation that provides technical consultancy and outsourcing services to the professional services market that includes Accountancy and Legal Sectors. Skills: • At least 3 years’ experience training experience in …
Systems Administrator (Microsoft Windows Server/Windows XP / Windows 7)
Our client a leading London based Law Firm who have been established for nearly 200 years, they focus on many disciplines of Law and work with a very well renowned client base. They are now …
New Business Sales Consultant – base salary up to £45k + OTE comm of circa £40k + benefits inc £6k car allowance
Our client is a market leading provider of mission-critical, sector specialist software solutions and services to the UK’s Legal and Not for Profit sectors, business accounting and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions principally for SME’s …
New report on law firm service desk issues
Sherry Bevan Consulting Ltd has just published what is believed to be the world’s first Law Firm Service Desk Report. The data in the report is based on responses from more than 30 law firms to a survey conducted during January and February 2013. Further insight was gained from interviews with law firm heads of IT, CIOs, service delivery managers, recruitment agencies and ITIL consultants.
HP versus OpenText over Autonomy Round #97
In the latest installment of the titanic struggle between the forces of Good and Evil – or Evil and Good – between HP and OpenText – or OpenText and HP (readers are free to rearrange the names in any order) HP Autonomy iManage has reacted angrily to rumours that HP is looking to sell the Autonomy business, possibly to SAP.
Australian study reveals increased time demands placed on lawyers + infographic
While legal professionals are known for working hard, a new study by legal and tax & accounting information solutions provider, Thomson Reuters, has shed light on the increasing time demands placed on Australia’s legal professionals as hours increase and client expectations grow – with some reporting as much as 100 hour working weeks.
SOS reports strong trading year as year-on-year growth continues
Legal software and services provider Solicitors Own Software Ltd. (SOS) has reported another strong trading year with turnover and profits up from 2012, as well as high levels of client and employee satisfaction.
