Something for the weekend – Ashpocalypse Now!

It's the weekend and before we had off to the lake at Orange Rag Towers and spend the rest of the afternoon drinking chilled rosé we'd just like to say…• Why does an Australian-based purveyor [...]

Something for the weekend – lost in translation

With Chris Dale and Senior QBD Master Steven Whitaker giving a presentation on Technology as a Component in Lord Justice Jackson’s e-Disclosure Recommendations at the ILTA Insight London conference in 12 days time, we thought [...]

Something for the weekend – close encounters of a Cyberman-kind

What, you mean Doctor Who is a factual series, not fiction? Here we see Douglas Mathie, a partner in Brodies' Tech, Info & Outsourcing group, have an encounter with a Cyberman in Edinburgh. Group PSL [...]

Comment is free: up to a point Lord Copper

We are currently receiving some rather unusual/interesting (delete as appropriate) comments coming into this blog. We are not ignoring them but – for legal reasons – we cannot use them. However, should anyone wish to [...]

Round-up of the best April Fool jokes

Yes, it is April 1st – so how did the legal IT industry respond? Er, nothing from the UK – but that may be because everyone is distracted by the upcoming 4-day Easter holiday weekend. [...]

Rupert Kendrick's guide to IT outsourcing governance

The key to a successful book is not just content but also timing. (And I'm speaking as someone who once wrote a Y2K guide that was so delayed by production issues that it had barely [...]

Guest article: Post-Recession Strategies: Controlling Financial Leakage

by John Gilbert, V-P of Sales & Marketing at nQueue Billback. He can be reached at jgilbert@nqbillback.comIf there is anything that the Great Recession has reminded us, it is that cash (not debt) is king [...]

Tom Fishburne says where are the backups?

Guest article: Social media – risk considerations for legal professionals

by David Gaffaney, a director with the legal consulting practice, Huron Consulting Groupwww.huronconsultinggroup.com/servicecategory.aspx?serviceCatId=21Social media are changing the way we network as a connected society, establishing a level of interaction that has never been possible before. [...]

The embargo has been broken

And here's the sequel to last week's cartoon about embargoes – and yes this does happen – usually the culprits are law firm PRs called Rupert or Fiona trying to get a lame story into [...]

Intralinks cup sees Clifford Chance miss out to Grant Thornton

Last Friday evening saw the IntraLinks Advisor Cup 2010 – a 5-aside football tournament organised by virtual dealroom specialists IntraLinks for members of the banking and legal community. A total of 16 teams, representing some [...]

So that's why the editor is grumpy

People sometimes say “That Charles Christian, he can be a bit grumpy sometimes.” I say “You would be too if you had to deal with some of the PR consultants out there. They don't know [...]

Guest article: Understanding & Mitigating the Risks of Cloud Technology

by Shannon Smith, Esq, eDiscovery & Archiving Specialist for CommVault As one of the newest computing frontiers, cloud technology is generating massive interest from organizations seeking substantial economies of scale by outsourcing all or portions of [...]

Comment: is the legal IT market SAD ?

Interesting conversation with an IT vendor about the current state of the UK market. The vendor said that his company had enjoyed an OK January in terms of new prospects but then encountered the complete [...]

End of week wrap-up

Here's a quick wrap-up for the weekend (altho if there are any breaking news stories, we will post them)…• The deadline for editorial submissions to the February issue of the UK/EMEA Insider has now closed.• [...]