Comment, Opinion & Guest Articles
Word Compare Myths Busted – Part 2 – you decide
Microsystems contribution to the Word Compare debate (see OR blog posting for Monday 7 November) seems to have stirred up some controversy – and here is Workshare's contribution… We have of course been pointing out Word [...]
Something for the weekend: it's Movember + Vote, Vote, Vote
It's November – and it is also Movember when supposedly mature adult males (yes, ladies, we know that is an oxymoron) start growing moustaches in the belief that trying to look like the biker out [...]
Something for the weekend: Postcards from the edge
Chrome River has launched a series of tongue-in-cheek Truth Hurts e-postcards that customers can use and send on to other people. Follow the link, pick a card (they are proper postcard size) complete it and [...]
Friday Quiz: what do these have in common ?
What do Michael Jackson’s You are not alone, Microsoft Windows 95, eBay and the Legal Technology Insider newsletter all have in common? Answer: they were all born in 1995. Happy Birthday the Orange One – [...]
Something for the weekend: The Witchies Awards
Some people look forward to winning an Oscar, some aspire to a Nobel prize but in the UK legal IT sector there is only one set of awards that really matter: the Witchies Awards, the [...]
Something for the weekend: social media on trial – death threats quiz – and don't get into that elevator
And so to our quiz… which marketing director of a legal IT vendor said (jokingly we hope) “Does anyone know a good hit-man, I want to take a contract out on Charles Christian. That's the [...]
Something for the weekend: what Autonomy may have said
There's a spat erupted in the tech press today about what Mike Lynch of Autonomy may or may not have said to Oracle when they were in acquisition talks – as distinct from what may [...]
Guest article: Rev-Elation time in Nashville
ILTA Rev-Elation, ILTA’s annual conference in Nashville was attended by 2,654 delegates* from law firms, vendors and in-house legal departments. Joanna Goodman highlights some key themes from the year’s biggest legal technology event.The sheer scale [...]
Something for the weekend: what if the Founding Fathers used Word?
Thanks to Bonnie Reid at Microsystems for pointing me in the direction of this excellent Microsoft video clip showing what might have happened if the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution had access to Word [...]
Guest article: With case budgets increasingly under scrutiny, is extra expenditure on ediscovery tools a solid investment?
by Rob Jones, Legal Consultant, Kroll OntrackWith case budgets increasingly under scrutiny, is extra expenditure on electronic discovery tools a solid investment? In Wetton v Ahmed, the Court of Appeal affirmed the First Instance Judge’s [...]
Something for the weekend: what if they held a party & nobody came?
OK, three social-media related stories for you today. The first is we have just discovered what Foursquare did before they moved into the er… location thingy business thing they do now. Apparently they were in [...]
Guest article: Using technology to compete with new entrants
by Arlene Adams, managing director & co-founder of Peppermint TechnologySome of the largest companies on the planet didn’t exist 10 years ago. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Skype, eBay, Trip Advisor, Expedia and Amazon are all new [...]
Something for the weekend: is this the future for law office design?
One of the topics rumbling along in law office management circles is whether we should also be rethinking the physical design of the legal office space, you know get away from offices that look like [...]
Guest article: The New Normal – the Clients are in charge
by Cary Burch, COO of Elite The severity of the current economic downturn has impacted the legal industry—particularly law firms— in two very remarkable ways. First and foremost, law firms have always been looked upon [...]
