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Listing ID: 1395
Title: The Orange Rag
Description: The blog of the Legaltechnology.com website, described by The Times newspaper as "the definitive online resource for the latest news about legal technology".
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listed on: July 22, 2008 07:32:04 PM
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| More on that alternative legal IT event - Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:30:00 +0000 |
| Just before the Christmas holiday break, we mentioned that some UK law firm IT directors (altho our contacts in the US say there could be a similar demand over there) are wondering where to go for their legal IT conferences and networking events this year – on the basis that most of the events currently taking place have either lost their way or past their sell-by date. And, there is also a view that any project that is actually going to cost IT directors money to attend is going to be out of the window in the current financial climate. What is therefore wanted is some kind of networking event which brings vendors and IT directors together – that is totally funded by sponsoring vendors BUT (and this is a big but) which is not in the hands of commercial conference organisers who inevitably wack on a massive profit margin for themselves and pretty quickly ring the last drop of blood out of the stoney goose that once laid the golden egg (to mix a few metaphors). So what kind of programme would such an event include – given we can assume nobody wants to sit through death-by-Powerpoint presentations by sponsoring vendors? One suggestion is that day one would seeDragon's Dentype presentations/elevator pitches by vendors before the IT directors with an impartial chair/moderator. This would be run underChatham House Rules– altho possiblyLas Vegas Rules(what happens in Vegas, stays in Las Vegas) might be more appropriate. (We're not certain how this event would handle the other vendors – presumably they would be excluded from these presentations until it was their turn. Another variation might be some kind of product shoot-out between vendors with competitive products – we're sure there would be a lot of interest in a three way shoot-out between Bighand, Winscribe and nFlow in the digital dictation arena. The Workshare versus DocsCorp debate at theTikit Word Dayin the autumn certainly proved informative.) This would be followed on the second day with a reversal of roles – with an audience of vendors asking individual IT directors to explain their respective IT strategies and purchasing decisions. (Current betting among rather cynical vendors is that the most frequent explanation would be"We only bought that system because we read that Janet Day had bought one.") Reflecting the frugal times ahead, the suggested title for this event isBarely Legal IT. What do readers think? Here on the Orange Rag/Insider, we'd certainly be up for sponsoring some of the action (as long as our money was going into the event and not the event organisers'pockets.) |
| Lupton Fawcett now live on Pilgrim - Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:50:00 +0000 |
| UK top 250 law firm Lupton Fawcett are now live with Pilgrim’s LawSoft after successfully migrating from their legacy IRIS AIM Evolution system. The firm are live with PMS, document management, CRM, matter management and debt collection case management. Pilgrim and Lupton Fawcett are now implementing a detailed Personal Injury case management system that fully integrates with the rest of the LawSoft suite. The firm, who were running the old Classic Unix version of AIM Evolution, placed the order early last year – for first report see Insider #206 (February 2008). |
| More US law firms facing extinction - Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:47:00 +0000 |
| Following the recent closure of four US law firms – Thelen Reid, Thacher Proffitt –which actually survived the destruction of its NYC head office in the World Trade Center on 9/11, Heller Erhman and Dreier, the American legal jobsboard LawCrossing is warning that more firms are likely to fold this year. Thelen, Thachers and Heller all blamed the financial crisis for their demise. At Dreier, the firm had to file for Chaper 11 bankruptcy protection after its founder and sole equity partner Marc Freier was arrested last month on charges of cheating hedge funds out of more than $100 million. Closer to home, a YouGovCentaur survey conducted on behalf ofThe Lawyermagazine reports that only 15% of associatesfeel safe from redundancy, while only 34% of partners feltstrongly that they were secure in their jobs. It is also being suggested that the number of legal job losses to-date, particularly among partners, has been under-reported and that the full extent will not become apparent until late 2009.The Lawyersays the total number of legal redundancies reported since the start of the recession now stands at 1259 but at Hammonds alone there are 95 posts currently subject to consultation. |