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This issue: 214
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Advertising & editorial deadline: 12.12.08
Top 10 in the
latest issue
1.
William Sturges switch from Axxia to Pilgrim
2. November's big deals
3. All change on the corporate front for Aderant
and Solcara
4. Welcome to a Brave New Word
5. Thought Leader #1: Defusing the IP telephony
time bomb
6. Thought Leader #2: Cloud computing - the
future for SaaS applications?
7. Recessionary tales
8. Winscribe next to go DDS 2.0 route?
9. Open Text back with a plan - and new products
10. November's big launch
IT
Director
Davies Arnold Cooper, London - Six figure
package plus benefits
Davies Arnold Cooper is an international law
firm particularly known for its dispute resolution
and real estate expertise. We advise in relation
to specialist areas of law including insurance,
real estate, construction and product liability,
and have a leading Hispanic practice. The
firm is headquartered in London with other
offices in Manchester, Madrid and Mexico City.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an
ambitious IT professional to join this thriving
230 lawyer firm and share in its future growth.
This is a new position and carries significant
responsibility for the leadership, development
and delivery of the firm’s IT strategy
as well as management of the firm's IT systems.
You will therefore possess strong commercial
and management skills as well as having excellent
technical skills. The successful candidate
will be responsible for managing the firm's
IT function and will work with senior partners
across the practice; good communication skills
are therefore essential, as is the ability
to influence at the highest level amongst
the partnership as part of the firm's senior
management team. A good working knowledge
of Microsoft products is important, as is
previous experience of working in a law firm
or similar professional services environment.
Please contact Neil Cameron of the Neil Cameron
Consulting Group - by email to neil@neilcameronconsulting.com
- for a full job description and application
details.
Reasons
to be fearful
So, the recession is here - or at least its
in the lobby hanging up its dirty raincoat
- but what impact will this have on IT purchasing
decisions? For this
month’s Readers’ Poll, which
both law firms and vendors can respond to,
we are checking out some of the reports, myths
and urban legends surrounding the downturn
in IT procurement over the past few weeks.
As ever, all responses are strictly anonymous
- and we’ll publish the results in our
November issue.
Forthcoming
events The
4th Annual E-Disclosure Forum
20.11.2008, London
Thomson Reuters is happy to announce their
4th Annual E-Disclosure Forum. Due to technology’s
rapid advancement every aspect of business
is being affected. Technology’s output
is the core of e-disclosure and if you have
a client large or small that will need to
prepare or is in the middle of litigation
this program is for you. This 4th Annual program’s
focus is on responsibility and accountability.
Long gone are the days that the lawyer’s
responsibility was limited to the letter of
the law. Today’s environment imposes
a variety of standards on knowledge that are
now considered in the purview of the attorney
and their staff. Judges and regulatory bodies
no longer accept excuses of limited technological
knowledge for production of information associated
with a case. To register email WEST.LEGALWORKSREGISTRATION@THOMSON.COM
- thanks to additional sponsorship this is
now a free event.
Kennedys IT Virtualisation Showcase 21.11.08, City of London
Discover how leading insurance law firm Kennedys
made savings of over £350,000 per year
whilst overhauling its global datacentres,
implementing a resilient disaster recovery
plan and improving remote working capabilities.
Virtualisation specialist Intercept is running
this free half day event at Kennedys new global
HQ to showcase how the firm has benefited
from the latest developments in this exciting
technology. Attendees will hear from Ric Martin,
Kennedys CEO, and Ian Lauwerys, Kennedys IT
Director, as well as receiving information
from expert speakers from VMware, Hitachi
Data Systems, Microsoft and Intercept themselves.
There will be an opportunity to meet with
the specialists during a light lunch from
12 noon, with the presentation starting at
1pm and finishing at 4.30pm. Spaces are limited,
please register at www.intercept-it.com/interact_events_kennedys.asp
or for more information please contact Rebecca
Landon on 0207 743 0114 or email rebecca.landon@intercept-it.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Voice Technologies briefings
01.12 + 04.12.08
Voice Technologies is to hold a series of
early afternoon (12:30 to 3:00pm) briefings
on making the most of Winscribe digital dictation
systems, including Blackberry integration,
in December. The first briefing is in Stirling
(1st December) followed by the Lowry Hotel
in Manchester (4th December). For details
email heather@voicetechnologies.co.uk
Survey
of Legal Holds practices (11.08)
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
PMS
& Case software suppliers guide (09.08)
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
The
Role of Tape (07.08)
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
Insider
Corporate Legal - June '08 The 9th edition of Legal Technology
Insider's free IT management supplement for
corporate counsel and inhouse legal departments. View
as PDF file
Sweet
& Maxwell management survey (04.08)
A new report on the role of support departments
(IT, HR, Marketing, Finance etc) in top 100
law firms View
as PDF file
DPS Outlook
Office (04.08) Insider editor Charles Christian
gives his first impressions on the new Outlook
Office system from DPS. View
as a PDF file
LITIG
report on UK practice management systems (04.08) View
as PDF file
The site hosts a growing
collection of white papers, case studies,
buyers guides and downloads. All documents
are free of charge.
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