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Back on Twitter
Charles Christian says… Yes, I know it was only last month I said 'sod Twitter, it is completely pointless' but now I'm back – at the request of some of my digital nomad friends who […]
New global firm to emerge in January
International legal practice Norton Rose Group has just announced that Deacons Australia* will join Norton Rose Group. The decision follows the completion of successful votes by the respective partnerships on 22 June 2009. The new […]
Comment: attempts to resurrect awards
Had an interesting report in from a UK vendor marketing honcho saying he had received three approaches in as many days from organisations trying to resurrect a version of the Legal Technology Awards and/or the […]
New Winscribe webinar
Winscribe is hosting a live webinar in just under two weeks' time on the topic of the efficiency benefits to be gained from building digital dictation and workflows into the document creation process. The webinar, […]
Criminal Defence system for sale on eBay
Our thanks to reader who mailed in this posting from eBay – purporting to show that the Criminal Defence system for England & Wales is up for sale to the highest bidder. Sadly eBay decided […]
English Law Soc confirms latest guide is the last
Although we first reported its demise back on 7th April this year, Peter Garner of the English Law Society has now confirmed that the 2009 edition of the Software Solutions Guide will be the last […]
Those MPs expenses
OK, not strictly legal but you have to laugh at former technology minister and now culture secretary Ben Bradshaw having to spend £20 to call out an engineer to fit a scart cable into his […]
New statement from IRIS Legal – revised
IRIS Group chief executive Martin Leuw has issued a statement to legal market users, stressing that the division is successful, generating total revenues of £22.2 million in the year to 30th April 2009, with pre-tax […]
Rio Tinto outsource legal work to CPA
This story has already been covered this morning by Richard Susskind in The Times however here is the text of the formal announcement…Rio Tinto today announced that it has entered into a legal services outsourcing […]
Hill Dickinson swap out Axxia for Aderant
Aderant has just announced that UK top 30 law firm Hill Dickinson LLP, has selected Aderant Expert to replace its legacy practice management system. (According to Legal Technology Insider records, the firm previously ran LexisNexis […]
One to watch
Keep an eye out for Lyceum Capital (headed up by Jeremy Hand) – they atre rumoured to be stalking the legal market with a view to putting together a commercially funded legal services offering, Tesco […]
Bermuda law no longer an island in the (gulf)stream
From 1st Jul,y Justis Publishing will exclusively host the Bermuda Law Reports on its Justis full-text online legal library. Previously available only on their own isolated website, the detailed judgments, which go back to 1986, […]
Elite San Diego user conference feedback
Following last week's Elite user conference in San Diego, we have received the following feedback from Elite and from one of our correspondents who also attended the event…Elite say: “The 2009 Elite User Conference – […]
Legal IT Forum back for another year
Undaunted by the Lexis/Butterworths/Axxia foray into legal IT events, Informa's events subsidiary ICBI has just announced details of its 2009 iteration of its Legal IT Forum event. The dates are 14 & 15 October 2009 […]
The Lexis IT show – latest
We've had some requests to see the programme for the Lexis/Butterworths/Axxia/Visualfiles Alternative Legal IT event – see attached PDF. The metadata on the original Word file shows this version was drafted on 22nd May.
