American Legal IT News
Guest article: The Nine Cs of Unified Communications
by Louis Hayner*In the legal industry, it’s important for all personnel – be it an attorney, paralegal, court clerk, etc – to efficiently handle their demanding client base and manage the necessary functions required of [...]
Word Compare Myths Busted – Part 4 …or Mind the Gap
And, finally, Norm Thomas of Litéra adds his comments on the Microsoft Word Compare debate…In nearly a decade and a half at Microsoft, the two most common laments I received from enterprise customers consistently dealt [...]
November American Legal Technology Insider newsletter out now
The November 2011 edition of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter (issue No #40) is out now. Top stories include: more acquisitions + Hubbard One moves into case outcomes + plus a round-up f all [...]
SkyDox launches in the US
SkyDox, a provider of a cloud-enabled file sharing and collaboration platform for cross-functional and distributed teams, has launched its solutions to the US enterprise sector. The platform is claimed to be the only collaboration solution [...]
Work has now started on the November of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter
Work has now started on the November issue of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter. The cut of point for copy is 5pm London time on Wednesday 9 November – the newsletter will be published [...]
Word Compare Myths Busted
Microsystems has just published a white paper – see attached PDF – debunking some of the myths surrounding the possible use of native Word Compare (ie it's not really as bad as its competitors complain) [...]
Acquisitions ahoy – Vista buy Mitratech
Mitratech, which specialises in systems for the corporate legal market, including matter management, e-billing and GRC (governance risk & compliance) automation, today announced that it has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners. As part of [...]
Mitratech publishes US inhouse legal IT budget survey – cloud & ediscovery not popular
Mitratech, provider of applications for the inhouse legal department sector (including matter management, e-billing, and GRC management automation) today announced the results of its 2011 Legal IT Spending Survey. This found that legal department IT [...]
Two new sales vacancies at Eclipse
Eclipse Legal Systems is currently recruiting for two sales consultants, here are the details…Sales Consultant x 2Excellent basic, realistic £60k year 1 OTEJoining our successful sales team, the role requires full coverage of the sales [...]
October American Insider out now
The October 2011 edition of the American Legal Technology Insider newsletter (issue No #39) is out now. Top stories include: more acquisitions by Aderant and Thomson Reuters + document automation systems on the radar + [...]
Document automation: HotDocs announced huge US DoJ Deal
The HotDocs Corporation, the automated document generation software company that is based out of Lindon, Utah and Edinburgh, announced today that it has closed a software licensing deal with the Executive Office for US Attorneys, [...]
Acquisitions – and here's another one…
Yes, we know it is late Friday afternoon UK-time but it's still morning in America (well at least on the West Coast) and here is news of yet another acquisition…Aderant today announced that it has [...]
French-Canadian firm goes with Bighand DDS
BigHand today announced that Montreal-based Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP (LRMM), one of the largest independent law firms in Quebec, has completed their firmwide roll-out of the BigHand solution to 145 users, helping the firm [...]
Norm Thomas joins Litera
Norm Thomas, who until earlier this summer was (as director of industry market development for legal & professional services) the public face of Microsoft within the legal industry (that is until Microsoft decided the legal [...]
New Guru Guide – all you want to know about IT support issues – it was Word that done it!
Intelliteach has published the 2nd edition of the legal service desk Guru Guide report aggregating independent law firm user support and service desk statistics and metrics. The updated guide provides unique benchmark data relating to [...]
