 Van Gaalen Attorneys has implemented Mimecast's cloud-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution to ensure total document security and accessibility. Good governance regulations demands that law firms ensure chains of custody remain intact in the archival, discovery and retrieval process should documents and emails be required for other legal matters.
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 South Africa's FIFTH ANNUAL CYBER LAW CONFERENCE is presented by Barend Burgers Attorneys @ the Innovation Hub, Pretoria from the 26th to the 28th of October 2010. This 5th edition's central theme is:
"e-Justice in the context of e-Government".
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 The University of Cape Town, together with GetSmarter, a specialist online training firm, is pleased to present the exciting new UCT (Law@Work) Internet and the Law course. The 10-week part-time short course starts on 13 September 2010, is presented entirely online through GetSmarter's innovative internet training platform.
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 The Sabinet Chairperson's Fund has been supporting a number of projects in Tshwane such as ABET classes, Maths tuition, School children funding, Enterprise development over the past few years. Last year, as part of this regional projects programme, the Sabinet Chairperson's Fund offered funding to three community libraries for their projects.
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 I attended the 2010 Lex-Informatica conference at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria which ran from 14th to the 16th July 2010 and the topic for this year was "Integrating Cyberlaw with Business Management and IT Security" which proved to be a rather interesting and diverse range of topics and speakers.
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 L@W Active (L@W) are delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Boccia as its new Chief Technology Officer. Robert has more than 20 years of technology experience. He joins L@W from Microsoft, where he is currently their CIO Africa. Robert starts with L@W in late July and will lead the overall technology direction of L@W and its various subsidiaries.
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 Breaking through the on-campus clutter of competing recruitment campaigns, Werksmans has launched The Candidate Challenge 2012 concept. Very loosely based on the popular TV show, The Apprentice, The Candidate Challenge offers law students a chance to get an early foot in the door in the race to secure Articles.
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 Prodial (SA) are proud to offer a world first in South Africa - a unique product that has been missing in professional consulting for far too long. Prodial is a patented business concept which allows professionals to automatically generate revenue from their incoming phone calls from wherever they happen to be without doing anything other than consult. You don't even collect your payment, we will pay your consulting fee straight into your bank account.
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Digital lifestyle survey request by Sabinet |
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 Our lifestyles are more and more digital every day. For example, all communications are done digitally through multipurpose digital devices. Sabinet has undertaken a digital lifestyle survey in order to determine what role digital devices such as mobile phones, computers, ebook readers etc. play in the daily life of the legal professional.
Sabinet will sincerely appreciate it if you could ask your practicing attorneys, partners etc. within your company to please complete this survey for us. The survey is available on http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sabinetlawsurvey
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 Mr Eddie Mohoebi, Head of Communications for the Deeds Office has forwarded information in connection with the recent fradulent transfers at the Pretoria Deeds Office. These were based on questions raised in an article by Roy Cokayne of the Business Report publication.
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 Microsoft's new Office 2010 productivity suite goes on sale at retail outlets across South Africa today, with the company's Albie Bester hailing it as "Office for the Internet Generation".
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 There is a growing career industry worldwide known as Virtual Assistants, they are made up of every traditional profession and career you can think of including Lawyers and Para-Legal, from people who are tired of the corporate world, to people who want to operate their business differently, to people who want to spent more time with family and still have the luxury of continuing their profession.
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 LOS ANGELES, May 27, 2010 - Long-time Enterprise firm Bowman Gilfillan will be converting to the ELITE® 3E practice and financial management platform to take advantage of the 3E Workflow and 3E Metrics and Reporting capabilities.
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 I constantly hear legal software and hardware suppliers complaining how tough business is. "The recession is killing us," they say. But many of these same vendors are guilty of not really wanting the business!
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Union boss in hot water after tweets |
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 Union boss Derek Simpson has just discovered the peril of Twitter - be careful what you tweet. The joint general secretary of the Unite union has found himself in hot water after sending some indiscreet messages via the micro-blogging service. Attending sensitive talks with British Airways bosses to try to prevent further strike action by the airline's cabin crews, Mr Simpson used his Twitter account to give a running commentary on the proceedings.
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Microsoft® Office 2010 more affordable in emerging markets |
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 Microsoft has announced that Office 2010, will be released in June for South African business users and July for consumers. Office 2010 is the latest version of the software suite that contains familiar computer applications like Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. At the launch Microsoft South Africa's Albie Bester revealed that South African users may pay less than other markets for their copy of Office 2010. According to Bester Office 2010 will be available locally for ....
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 Michalsons Attoneys, a national ICT Law firm have grown by two highly qualified ICT lawyers with Sizwe Snail joining the firm as a consultant based in Pretoria and Nicholas Hall joining as a candidate attorney based in Cape Town.
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 Last month we posted a poll which asked whether people would want to take part in a salary survey to get an idea what salaries are being paid in the market. The response was 92% in favour of knowing the average salary and 8% not wanting to know or take part in the survey. So here we are...
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 Sepialine Inc. delivers products and services to capture, analyze and report business expenses-print, copy, scan, fax and more-across multiple platforms, devices and sources. By capturing and analyzing expenses, companies are able to gain  business insight, charge back clients for reimbursable expenses and ultimately increase profit.
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 This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania . This guy's response is hilarious, but read State's letter before you get to the response letter.
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Ex-Wife Ordered to Provide Skype Access for Husband, Kids |
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 A state judge in Suffolk County has ordered a mother to make her two children available for Skype online video conferencing with their father as a condition of her move to Florida. The decision marks the first reported New York case in which a judge has ordered a relocating parent to facilitate Skyping -- i.e., the use of Skype conferencing software -- between her children and her ex-spouse as a condition of her move, according to a Westlaw search.
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 L@W is pleased to announce that due to the overwhelming response to our recently launched free trial, we have extended the L@W Bonds trial period until the end of September 2010. The free trial, which began in July, allowed users the opportunity to experience L@W Bonds and the simplicity of its seamless integration with other essential L@W solutions.
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 Often when consulting at clients we have been approached about the recommended hardware that a law firm should purchase so we are introducing a new L@WDeed initiative called L@WTech. While dealing with clients, business partners or even personally, please keep the following information in mind and refer them to our website:
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 There is a motivation from the Deeds Office to increase the schedule of fees very soon, the proposal is currently awaiting approval from the Minister's office. The transfer of land with reference to transfers and bonds seems to have a R50 Increase across-the-board; there are a few exceptions which are lower - in fact three items. The "Report to court made by the registrar in terms of section 97 of the Act", will increase by 40%.
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 In its efforts to keep innovating, Absa Home Loans is implementing an online data storage system which is a trusted, secure and convenient way for customers and institutions to store important documents online. Stordoc will also be used for identification management and for compliance purposes, including FICA. Absa Home Loans is confident that Stordoc will streamline its operations to obtain certain efficiencies.
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Results of New Law Firm Timekeeping Survey |
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 By, Adam Smith Esq. - Last month we made an online survey available on the topic of timekeeping practices sponsored by Adam Smith, Esq., and Smart WebParts. The survey was also publicized through other venues, and ran for three weeks from mid-May through early June.
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Eversheds in iPads deal with Computacenter & Citrix |
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 Eversheds has announced that it has signed a new deal which could eventually see all of the firm's lawyers move on to Apple iPads. In a collaboration with IT partners Computacenter and Citrix, the firm intends to explore how the introduction of iPads in to the business can help its lawyers to work more flexibly.
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 Opality offers clients the opportunity of having Corporate Email for a fraction of the cost, with all the same benefits! Our service requires no capital and allows the clients to have their own off-site MS Exchange server to compete with larger firms. It is a simple decision to agree to the service and start using the system. Should you wish to cancel it is a matter of a month's notice and arrange to move your email files back to your original servers or computers.
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 Following meetings between Powerhouse Dictation and Nuance UK, it became apparent that a number of local "Dragon NaturallySpeaking Resellers" have been producing their own Dragon Packaging including pirated DVD copies of the original software. This is currently being addressed by Nuance themselves as a matter of urgency.
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 Well, now that Microsoft Office 2010 has finally arrived on the store shelves we can start looking at ways in which we can purchase this much awaited product. The pricing structure or the new office has changed somewhat, compared with the older 2007 version. There are two basic offerings from Microsoft, the FPP which is the Fully Packaged Product (Normally at retail outlets) and the PKC, the Product Key Card which is basically the license without any CD or manuals or box.
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 Adams & Adams choose Phoenix Business Solutions as their preferred business solutions partner to assist, complete and upgrade their existing Autonomy iManage WorkSite implementation. Adams & Adams, one of the biggest law firms in South Africa, have selected Phoenix Business Solutions to assist with the firm's Autonomy iManage WorkSite implementation along with Autonomy iManage 8.5 and email management upgrades.
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 We have 459 responses to the salary survey, but I'm a little reluctant to stop the survey and publish the results as we need more data to make it accurate. People have contacted me and asked if there is anything they can do to assist - and there is.
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 The topic for the Lex Informatica 2010 conference on Cyber law is "Integrating Cyberlaw with Business Management and IT Security". We submit that this conference does not only further the debate on cyber security and cyber-law matters but has also become an integral part of the international conferencing calendar.
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We have had a good response to the salary survey for paralegals. To date we have had 350 people take the survey, but this is not enough, we need a lot more to get accurate stats from the results. Please ask as many colleagues as you can to click 5 buttons to help everyone establish the salary reference system. It will really be sad if we publish the results of the survey which are wrong because people did not take the 5 second survey.
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 LegalSuite has developed a new KnowledgeBase to allow users to search their documentation and find answers on different areas of the program. Over the years, the LegalSuite staff have written a number of White Papers on a wide range of subjects covering the more advanced areas of the LegalSuite program and new features that are not included in the manuals.
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AJS installs 10,000th user |
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 With the recent implementation of AJS legal accounting at Bookbinder Khan Attorneys in Botswana, ALS has reached 10,000 users of its accounting and practice management system. AJS is renowned for its robust legal accounting and its outstanding customer support. For more information on AJS, click here.
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 A little humour on the witness stand....
ATTORNEY:
ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
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 For the first time ever in South Africa, legal practitioners can find out everything they need to know about emerging trends, products and services and technology all in one place at the Legal Faire.
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AdvanceSoft Launches a New Technical Division |
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 AdvanceSoft is pleased to announce the creation of our new technical department, which enables us to assist customers in any IT related issues. With the expansion of the business comes the necessity for good people and we would like to welcome Jonathan Simpson and Craig Higgins to the AdvanceSoft team; both have extensive knowledge in IT technology and vast experience in working with the South African legal market. We hope that this extension to our current service will be a great benefit to our customers.
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Korbitec and Property24.com now Offer Combined Property Platform |
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 Property solutions company Korbitec and Property24.com, part of leading multinational media group Naspers, have successfully merged to offer both property professionals and consumers a truly comprehensive and industry neutral e-commerce property portal.
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