American Legal IT News
The January issue of the Legal IT Newsletter is out now
Welcome to the latest issue of the Legal IT Insider newsletter (January 2013, issue 260) – which now also incorporates our American and APAC Legal Technology Insider newsletters. • If you are on the email [...]
LegalTech 2013 – Day One report: ediscovery, Big Data & other musings
JoAnna Forshee of InsideLegal in the US reports on the event’s first day… Well, LegalTech New York Year 31 is here – 220+ vendors, untold consultants, technologists and literally unknown numbers of attendees (we have [...]
Pix from Day One of LegalTech NYC
Over in New York, our bleary-eyed associates are tottering into the Hilton Hotel for Day Two of the LegalTech event. In the meantime here are some facts and pictures from the first day… According to [...]
US SEC selects Recommind for ediscovery
Recommind has just announced that the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is deploying Recommind’s Axcelerate Review & Analysis, which provides innovative Predictive Coding capabilities, to the SEC’s Division of Enforcement staff nationwide. Axcelerate Review [...]
New report looks at how corporate law departments are allocating legal work
TyMetrix (part of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services and Huron Legal have co-published a new report on how corporate law departments are choosing to source legal matters, in terms of the number and mix of [...]
Tikit joins BT update
Friday 18 January saw the Tikit Group formally became part of the BT as a semi-autonomous company within of the BT Enterprises division. Tim Springham will become the new CEO on 18th February, succeeding David [...]
And another DMS swapout offer – NetDocuments take on all comers
OK, so far we’ve had OpenText, Recommind and Worldox all offering swap-out deals for users of HP Autonomy iManage DMS, search and ediscovery software however now NetDocuments has upped the ante and is taking on [...]
Ediscovery: US judge approves predictive coding results
For the first time in the US, a court has approved the result of an ediscovery production in which predictive coding was both ordered and used. When it was demonstrated that the predictive coding’s accuracy [...]
BigHand to launch enterprise dictation app for the new BlackBerry 10 platform + UK event news
BigHand just announced the launch of BigHand for BlackBerry 10. To coincide with Research In Motion’s global launch of the new BB10 platform on January 30th, BigHand will be providing visitors at the upcoming LegalTech [...]
UnCut: Charles Christian’s Blog – Brands on the Run
For all the talk about the challenges of the Legal Services Act etcetera, the one area in which all law firms and also – ironically – all new-style alternative legal service providers are woefully lacking [...]
New law firm service desk survey launch
Sherry Bevan Consulting Ltd has launched a survey that will focus specifically on the law firm service desk: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ServiceDeskSurvey2013 Sherry Bevan adds “This is an unique survey. If you are a member of ILTA or [...]
Now Nuance buys Copitrak – UPDATED
Nuance obviously enjoys the cost recovery systems market so much that, not content with buying Equitrac last year, the company has now bought Equitrac’s arch-rival Copitrak. Note this is the American company Copitrak – not [...]
HotDocs sales double since 2009 acquisition + plans multiple product launches in 2013
The HotDocs Group (best know for its document assembly/automation/generation software) today announced that revenue has doubled since it acquired the core HotDocs business from its long-time parent company LexisNexis in November 2009. HotDocs Document Generation [...]
Webinar: how law firms can merchandise their content the retail way
If you missed last week’s One North Interactive webinar on how law firms can merchandise their content, drawing inspiration from the retail world, here is the slide-deck and a link to the Webex webinar http://blog.onenorthinteractive.com/2013/01/10/one-north-webinar-merchandising-your-content-inspirations-from-the-retail-world/#.UPLSxehZdLd
UnCut: Charles Christian’s Blog – Missing the Bleedin’ Obvious
There’s a new restaurant in one of the towns near to where I live – and it never has any customers in it. Is this because the good citizens of that borough spurn the proprietor’s [...]
