E-Disclosure Special
Report 2006
Legal Technology Insider, in association with Zantaz,
has published a special report on e-disclosure and
related issues associated with litigation support.
Along with a keynote by Insider editor Charles Christian,
the report includes contributions by DLA Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary partner Browning Marean and an interview
with Janet Lambert of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert. View
as a PDF file (approx 72k)
Online
strategies for law firms 2004 A newly revised
version of the Legal Technology Insider white paper
on online marketing and business development strategies
for law firms. View
as a Word DOC (approx 100k) View
as a PDF file
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Law Society Software
Solutions Guide 2008 (01.08) NEW The
latest edition of the English Law Society's
guide to accounts & practice management
systems. View
as PDF file + check out our winners & losers
chart summarising how the suppliers performed View
as PDF file
Law
Society Software Solutions Guide 2007 (03.07)
The latest edition of the English Law Society's
guide to practice management systems. View
as PDF file Law
Society Software Solutions Guide 2006 (02.06)
The latest
edition of the English Law Society's guide
to practice management systems. View
as PDF file
PMS
& Case software suppliers guide (09.08)
REVISED
The Insider buyers guide listing of UK and
Irish suppliers (over six dozen of them) of
accounts, practice management and case/matter/workflow
management systems, complete with full contact
details and web links, has now been updated
& revised to make it easier to identify
the key suppliers in different market niches. View
as Excel file Probate
& Trust software suppliers guide (11.07)
REVISED
This is a revised version of Insider buyers
guide listing the major suppliers of trust
and probate accounts and case management systems
in England & Wales, complete with full
contact details. View
as Excel file
Software on a Shoestring
(01.05) A comprehensive
guide to low cost (with an entry level price
of £1000 or less) accounts, practice
management and case management software suitable
for sole practitioners and very small firms
of solicitors. This is a digital version of
a special report the Insider prepared for
the Solo and alt X magazines. View
as a PDF file
Top 160 London firm selects Crescendo
digital dictation (09.06)
Crescendo case study looking at the use of
their DigiScribe-XL digital dictation system
in Bates Wells & Braithwaite where the
introdction of DDS has realised costs savings
of £40k a year. View
as PDF file
Crescendo digital dictation case studies
(03.07)
Crescendo present a series case studies showing
the use of their DigiScribe-XL digital dictation
system in law firms. View
as PDF file
DDS Lexicon
(05.04)
DDS supplier NFlow Software has produced a
lexicon of terminology and jargon associated
with digital dictation. View
as PDF file Digital
dictation case study
(06.03) Wedlake
Bell talk about the benefits of their recent
BigHand DDS implementation. View
as PDF file
Digital
dictation & Irwin Mitchell (03.04) Putting
a figure on Return on Investment. View
as PDF file
Digital dictation unit
cost pricing (06.05) The results
of the R&B consultancy spring 2005 survey
on unit costs for digital dictation software. View
as PDF file
Forsters DDS & outsourcing case study
(09.06) Mayfair
property lawyers Forsters discuss their use
of SRC WinScribe DDS in conjunction with an
outsourced transcription bureau in South Africa. View
as PDF file
From analogue tape to speech recognition (07.05)
A new case
study looking at the way Bemrose & Ling
in Derby recently switched from analogue tape
to StatPlus digital dictation and Philips
speech recognition technology. View
as PDF file
ITT for Digital Dictation
System (05.04) Template for
an ITT for a digital dictation system (DDS). View
as a Word DOC file
Paris Smith & Randall
DDS case study (11.05) Southampton-based
Paris Smith & Randall talk about the benefits
of the firm's new WinScribe digital dictation
system which was supplied by SRC. View
as PDF file
Questions to ask your
DDS supplier (05.04) Reynolds Porter
Chamberlain have produced a list of questions
law firms should ask suppliers of digital
dictation systems. View
as a Word DOC file
Ricksons
DDS case study (07.05)
Preston-based Ricksons talk about the benefits
of the firm's new WinScribe digital dictation
system which was supplied by SRC. View
as PDF file
Backup
systems for Blackberry Enterprise Server (12.07)
Neverfail have produced two fact sheets on
their disaster recovery backup systems for
Blackberry Enterprise Servers. View
as PDF files [Neverfail for BES] View
as PDF files [Neverfail for Legal]
Cobbetts use broadband
for remote working (10.05) Cobbetts
talk about the way the firm can support staff
working from home and other out-of-the-office
locations via a broadband solution provided
by Community Internet. View
as PDF file
Creating the matter-centred
practice (06.05) In this
Microsoft white paper, Charles Christian &
Mark Craddock look at the way technology can
deliver on the promise of joined-up law firm
management in the email age. View
as PDF file
Email user policy
(01.04)
Template for email user good practice guide
drawn up by LITIG. View
as a Word DOC file
Net advantage? (06.05)
In this article
Lee McIlwaine, a solicitor and CPIL fellow,
discusses some of the benefits and perils
of using free Internet resources focused in
respect of personal injury work. This article
draws upon his presentation at the 2005 APIL
conference and elements of CPIL's Economic
Investigation of Claims course. View
as Word .DOC file
Website accessibility
(05.04) Conscious Solutions
white paper on making websites accessible. View
as a Word DOC file View
as PDF file
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European benchmarking
survey (07.05)
Hildebrandt's 2004 benchmarking survey on
staff ratios with inhouse legal departments View
as PowerPoint file How
European companies select their legal service
provider (02.07)
Sylvia Hodges' fascinating survey, conducted
for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell on how mid-sized
European companies select and review their
legal services providers. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - June '08 NEW The 9th edition of Legal Technology
Insider's free IT management supplement for
corporate counsel and inhouse legal departments. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - February '08
The 8th edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free IT management supplement for corporate
counsel and inhouse legal departments. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - October
'07
The seventh edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free IT management supplement for corporate
counsel and inhouse legal departments. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - June '07
The sixth edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free IT management supplement for corporate
counsel and inhouse legal departments. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - February
'07
The fifth edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free IT management supplement for corporate
counsel and inhouse lawyers. View
as PDF file
Insider Corporate Legal - September
'06
The
fourth edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free IT management supplement for corporate
counsel and inhouse lawyers. View
as PDF file
Inside Corporate
Legal - April '06 (04.06)
The third edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free quarterly
supplement for corporate counsel and inhouse
lawyers. View
as PDF file
Inside Corporate
Legal - January '06 (01.06)
The second edition of Legal Technology Insider's
free quarterly supplement for corporate counsel
and inhouse lawyers. View
as PDF file
Inside Corporate
Legal - September '05 (09.05)
The first edition of
Legal Technology Insider's free quarterly
supplement for corporate counsel and inhouse
lawyers. View
as PDF file
LawNet annual
e-billing survey 2004 (07.05) View
as PDF file
Managing outside counsel (07.05)
The Association of Corporate Counsel's guidelines
on the management of outside counsel View
as PDF file
Payback time for e-billing whitepaper
(07.05)
The Byline Research Group's whitepaper on
the payback time for e-billing, invoice processing
and automation View
as PDF file
Uniform Task Based Management
System (UTBMS) code sets (04.07) This is the
latest version of the UTBMS code set for litigation
matters. The Defense Research Institute (DRI)
has set up a dedicated section on their web
site at www.dri.org providing background information
on the development of the codes View
as Word file
Uniform Task Based Management
System (UTBMS) code sets (07.05) The
American Bar Association's Litigation Section
whitepaper on Uniform Task Based Management
Systems, including worktype code sets View
as PDF file
Law
firm management Anti-Money
Laundering Regulations Explained (09.07)
This white paper from Sapphire Technologies
describes the compliance requirements for
firms that are subject to money laundering
regulations (which include banks, building
societies, estate agents, money transmitters,
bureaux de change and investment firms). It
also addresses how implementing an ISO 27001:2005
robust information security management system
(ISMS), can aid compliance and direct an organisation
towards improving the way it controls, checks
and monitors customer information. View
as PDF file
CRM & Data Protection
(10.04) This a white
paper by Interface Software and Good Consulting
looking at the obligations of law firms and
other professional service organizations under
the Data Protect Act and the CRM (client relationship
management) technology can have in facilitating
compliance. View
as PDF file
CRM
for Legal Services (05.07)
New white paper by Allan Carton of the consultancy
Inpractice looking at the role of CRM within
law firms. View
as PDF file
E-Learning
at Hugh James (03.06)
This case study from TutorPro looks at the
way Hugh James has used e-learning to reduce
the amount of time spent on classroom-based
IT and external training courses. View
as PDF file
E-Learning at Paul Hastings Janofsky &
Walker (03.06)
This case study from TutorPro looks at the
way Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has
used e-learning to facilitate the rollout
of WorkSite 8.1 to over 2000 users in 17 locations. View
as PDF file Finance
salary survey (05.07)
New survey by the Legal Support Network and
ILCA on the salaries earned by law firm finance
department staff - everyone from cashiers
to finance directors - in the UK. View
as PDF file
HR costs
recovery calculator (05.04) View
as Excel file
Information integrity (04.05)
This is an IDC Executive Briefing looking
at securing business communications, with
particular reference to inappropriate or unauthorised
changes and distribution and the inclusion
of metadata. View
as PDF file Law firm profitability
(10.02) Law firm profitability
- Key points from Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's
recent study on US and UK law firm profitability.
View
as a PowerPoint PPT file
Further information
can be found at www.uk.cgey.com/news
Law Society E-Strategy
(03.05) The English
Law Society's proposals on how law firms can
take advantage of e-business and the demand
for online legal services. View
as a Word DOC file
Legal IT salary survey (04.08) NEW The
2008 edition of legal IT recruitment specialist
JPL Group's annual survey of salaries for
law firm IT department staff. View
as PDF file
Legal
IT salary survey (12.06)
The 2006 edition of headhunters Graham Gill's
annual survey of salaries for law firm IT
staff. And 'yes' the top salary rate is now
over £200,000 pa. View
as PDF file
Legal IT salary survey
(06.05) The 2005 edition
of headhunters Graham Gill's annual survey
of salaries for law firm IT staff. View
as PDF file
LITIG
report on UK practice management systems (04.08)NEW View
as PDF file
Managing conveyancing
using IT-enabled tools (06.05) In this article
Chris Spencer, a solicitor and development
director of EMIS IT, explains how IT systems
can help manage the risks associated with
e-conveyancing. View
as PDF file
NDA template (05.04) Template for
a non-disclosure agreement, courtesy Masons
Out-Law.com View
as a Word DOC file
Outsourcing & Data
Protection (10.04) With more and
more firms now looking at the prospects of
outsourcing IT and back office services to
the Third World, this article by Elizabeth
Weir of Shaw Pittman LLP looks at the data
protection issues raised by such strategies. View
as Word DOC
Outsourcing
white paper (06.07)
New white paper by managed services specialists
CCE looking at some of the reasons why law
firms should consider outsourcing. View
as PDF file
Risk of sharing
documents (04.05)
This report by Vanson Bourne investigates
the scale, awareness levels and efficiency
of processes that impact document integrity,
from assessing how risks, such as security
and compliance, are exposed in the document
process, to establishing productivity gains
and losses, to putting document integrity
in context of other business administration
tasks. View
as PDF file
Sweet &
Maxwell management survey (04.08) NEW
A new report on the role of support departments
(IT, HR, Marketing, Finance etc) in top 100
law firms View
as PDF file
Workshare and
document integrity (04.05)
This is a white paper
by the Patricia Seybold Group reviewing the
latest (version 4.0) of the Workshare Professional
system. View
as PDF file
Legal
IT developments Artificial intelligence
within law firms (09.02) White
paper on the use of AI (artificial intelligence)
within law firms. View
as a Word DOC file
Updated XML schema (05.03) The Legal Software
Suppliers Association (LSSA) has published
a revised proposal for an XML Schema for the
legal profession. The full White Paper illustrating
the updated schema is available in 600k Word
DOC file format. View
as Word Doc file
All you ever wanted
to know about litigation support (04.08) NEW Andrew
Haslam of Allvision Computing has put together
this useful white paper to provide an analytical
framework to categorise and assess the tools
and suppliers available within the litigation
support and electronic data discovery (EDD)
marketplace. View
as a Word DOC file
E-discovery search tools
(02.07) In this
white paper ISYS Search Software look at how
firms can leverage enterprise search software
to tackle e-discovery. View
as a PDF file Electronic discovery
(09.02) LDM
position paper on electronic discovery. View
as a Word DOC file
Fence Building from Allvision (07.07) Litigation Readiness has been described
as the 'better fence at the top of the cliff'
and is a US concept that does have some applicability
to certain UK sectors and law firms. Allvision's
Andrew Haslam has written a white paper exploring
the concepts of litigation readiness and how
they apply to the UK market. View
as a PDF file
IT in civil proceedings (04.06) LiST's latest draft practice direction
on the use of IT in civil proceedings. View
as Word DOC
Legal
Technology Insider Special Report on E-Disclosure
(05.06)
This 10 page special report includes an article
by DLA Piper Rudnick partner Browning Marean
and an interview with Janet Lambert of Barlow
Lyde & Gilbert. View
as PDF file
Survey
of Legal Holds practices (11.08) NEW
CGOC and Huron Consulting have published the
results of their survey on legal holds and
e-discovery practices in Global 1000 companies.
With e-discovery risk becoming a growing issue,
this report makes interesting reading for
anyone involved in the litigation support
process. View
as a PDF file The
Role of Tape (07.08) NEW
This new white paper from eMag Solutions reviews
at the continuing role of tape - and why tape
backups are a good (and often the only) place
to look for information in a litigation support
scenario. View
as a PDF file
Electronic records
management system (03.03) MDY
Advanced Technologies white paper on their
FileSurf electronic records management system. View
as PDF file
Interwoven Matter Centric Design Awards (11.06)
This presentations of the winners
and contenders shows some of the interfaces
law firms have been developing to support
their WorkSite Matter Centric systems View
as PDF file Knowledge management system (02.03) TripleHop
Technologies white paper on their MatchPoint
knowledge management system. View
as PDF file
Open Text/Microsoft
whitepaper (11.07) This
whitepaper - Extending the Value of Microsoft
Sharepoint in Law Firms with Open Text Legal
Information Management - looks at the way
the Open Text Hummingbird DMS platform can
co-exist with SharePoint to the benefit of
law firms. View
as a PDF file
Open Text Product Roadmap
for Hummingbird Users (12.06) This
presentation, previously given to Legal CIO
Advisory Board, sets out Open Text's product
roadmap for its newly acquired Hummingbird
DMS business. View
as PowerPoint file
Optimising Law Firm Filing (04.08) NEW NewField IT, a vendor-independent
UK-based services provider that helps organisations
achieve control of their document and print
management costs, has produced white paper
- called Legally Overweight? Optimising a
law firm's filing environment - on the topic
of managing filing within the modern law office View
as PDF file
The need for specialist
KM tool (06.05) Perceptive
Technology white paper on turning information
into knowledge through the use of specialist
KM tools.
View as PDF file
Case management at
Shulmans (01.05) This is a case study looking at the
way Shulmans Solicitors used TFB case management
software to create QCAS, a high volume conveyancing
offshoot that includes a 24/7 telephone service
for the firm's clients. View
as a PDF file
Case management software (01.03) Case
study on the use of Solicitec's SolCase case
management software at volume conveyancing
specialists Bretherton Price Elgoods. View
as a Word DOC file
Cognito Custodiens review (07.05) A review of the latest version of
Cognito's Custodiens trust & probate software
by Charles Christian View
as PDF file
Debt
recovery work at Clarke Willmott (09.04) This Linetime
case study looks at Clarke Willmott's use
of debt recovery software and its contribution
towards helping the firm win a volume debt
recovery contract from HM Customs & Excise. View
as Word DOC
DPS Outlook Office (04.08) NEW Insider editor Charles Christian
gives his first impressions on the new Outlook
Office system from DPS. View
as a PDF file
Elite 3E white paper (04.06) A new white paper from Thomson Elite
providing an overview of the new 3E platform. View
as a PDF file Linux & Partner for Windows (02.03) Technology
for Businesss (TFB) product reviews/opinion
pieces on Linux and the Partner for Windows
(P4W) systems. Linux:
view as PDF file P4W:
view as PDF file
Litigation support
(06.04)
Microsoft case study
looking at the way InfoPath helped cut conflict
of interest checking time at Gunderson Dettmer
by 75 percent. View
as Word DOC
Matter
Centric Collaboration (07.04) Interwoven
has published a white paper on matter centric
collaboration, looking at the way product
like WorkSite, DeskSite and MailSite can provide
access to an 'electronic case file' comprising
all email messages and documents from within
applications such as Microsoft Word and Outlook. View
as PDF file
Norton Rose
case study (11.07)
This case study looking at the way Norton
Rose has used ABBYY recognition server technology
to help manage the digitising and retrieval
of paper-based documents. View
as a PDF file
Outsourcing
at Irwin Mitchell (11.04)
This Axxia case study
contains an interview with Richard Hodkinson
of Irwin Mitchell on why the firm opted to
outsource the administration of its Unix systems
and the accompanying cost benefits. View
as PDF file
Tideway at Linklaters (07.07)
This is a case study looking at the way Linklaters
have implemented Tideway Systems' Foundation
product to help provide a clearer picture
of its entire IT infrastructure so as to be
able to map interdependencies and improve
the firm's change, incident and problem management
processes. View
as a PDF file
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