American Legal IT News
Aderant buys Omega Legal
The great acquisition spree continues at Aderant with the announcement (formal statement probably out mid-day Wednesday) that the company has just bought Scottsdale, Arizona-based Omega Legal Systems. Omega (founded in 1975) has about 300 mid-tier [...]
The Great Ediscovery Shake-up – or is that Shakeout !
For those of you who asked, here is the full text of the ediscovery meets Google story from the latest issue of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter… According to some commentators, last year was [...]
April issue of American Legal Technology Insider newsletter out now
The April 2012 issue of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter (No.45) is out now. Top stories include: • more acquisitions – and we may have another one later tonight • MySpace gets serious – [...]
Legal IT Megatrends: overcoming the challenges of BYOD
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become one of the most influential trends that has or will touch each and every legal IT department. The term has come to define a megatrend occurring in IT [...]
Guest article: The eDiscovery Passport
by Philip J Favro, Discovery Counsel, Symantec Corporation There are many things besides the Atlantic Ocean that separate Europe and the United States. Language, customs and culture stand out as perhaps the predominant distinguishing factors. [...]
Guest article: Mobile Malware – and what to do about it
by Jaime Blasco, Head of Labs at AlienVault www.alienvault.com The mobile phone is unrecognisable in comparison to its original ‘brick’ form of the 80s. Instead of a ‘yuppie’ status symbol, now it’s considered by many [...]
Breaking news: 1st April from Iridium
Iridium Technology LLC, the consulting firm that is 100% focused on Business Intelligence for law firms, announced today that they are on track with their strategic growth plan to sign up 1.5 million law firms [...]
Guest article: Meeting the Value Challenge – or How to Manage Legal Services and Deliver Business Value
by David Samia* In a landscape of rapidly increasing complexity, companies today have to cope with a business environment that is in constant flux. That means individual departments have to become quicker on their feet, [...]
BigHand making more inroads into US voice tech space
BigHand today announced that three more top 250 US law firms have implemented BigHand: White and Williams LLP (Philadelphia, PA), Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP (Columbia, SC), and Husch Blackwell LLP (St. Louis, MO). With [...]
And still the Elite juggernaut rolls on as SKGF opts for total Thomson Reuters solution
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC (SKGF), an intellectual property law firm in Washington DC, is to deploy Elite 3E for a comprehensive, firm-wide workflow plus next-generation financial and practice management solution. Phase I of [...]
New guide to all you’ve ever wanted to know about Outlook add-ons
PeerViews Inc, the New York-based publishers of the TechnoLawyer Network (which includes BlawgWorld and LitigationWorld) has just published a new guide to Microsoft Outlook add-ons for law firms. The guide – TechnoLawyer Buyer’s Guide to [...]
Acquisitions ahoy! Aderant acquires long term partner ATG
Aderant announced today that it has acquired image management company Applied Technology Group LLC (ATG), developer of the ExpertImage product used by more than 130 firms worldwide. Founded in 1996, ATG provides complete digital imaging [...]
Another Elite 3E win
Still busy, busy, busy times over at Thomson Reuters Elite where global practice Reed Smith LLP has decided to transition to ELITE 3E for its next-generation business process platform. The firm has invested in 3E [...]
March American Insider out now
The March issue of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter (number #44) is out now. Copies have already gone out to our digital subscriber base but you can also download a free PDF copy by [...]
Two more big wins for Elite 3E
Last year it was all about Elite buying up other legal IT vendors, this year looks like being all about Elite winning orders. Following hard on the heels of Tuesday’s Elite 3E win at 150 [...]
