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 There is a revolution happening in the legal profession as more and more small to medium-sized law firms are starting to sell legal agreements and contracts via the Internet. In his book “The End of Lawyers?” UK legal technology futurist Richard Susskind predicted a constant shift towards commoditisation in the legal profession. With online document assembly tools like XpressDox for the Cloud, his predictions are now becoming reality. Until recently, document assembly software for the Internet was too expensive for all but the really large law firms. But now all that has changed.
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DLA Piper Sponsors Open-Source Think Tank |
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 DLA Piper, one of the world's biggest law firms, is increasing its advocacy for the use of business-class open-source software. The firm this week announced its sponsorship of the 2012 Open Source Think Tank, an invitation-only event which involves its audience in discussions and debates on real-world business and technology problems.
Read more at the LTN web site...
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Big step forward for safety of bionic contact lenses |
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 Researchers have successfully demonstrated the safety of a single-pixel wirelessly powered display on a contact lens on a rabbit’s eye. At the moment, the contact lens device contains only a single pixel of information, but the researchers say it is a proof of the concept that the device could be worn by a person. Eventually it could display short e-mails and other messages directly before a wearer’s eyes.
Read more at the Popular Mechanics web site...
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WordPerfect's Upgrade: Does It Matter? |
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 There's a new version of Corel's WordPerfect shipping this spring. Does it matter for any reasons other than sentiment? The word processing package emerged in 1980 and became dominant in the middle part of that decade by surpassing rivals such as MultiMate and WordStar. By 1990 it had more than 45 percent market share, technology research firm International Data Corp. stated at the time.
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LinkedIn is the most popular social media platform in law firms |
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 LexisNexis, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced results from its latest study on law firm engagement in social media methods. The report, 'Global Social Media Check-up: A global audit of law firm engagement in social media methods', reveals that whilst social media has changed the way that millions of people communicate in their personal lives and that many international B2B law firms have registered their presence on the networks, the legal profession overall has a reticent approach to social media engagement.
Read more at Market Watch....
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5 Predictions for time capture in 2012 |
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 Once again, we’ve come to the time of year where we all start looking forward. We’re going to harness our curiosity about the year ahead and make some predictions relevant to timekeeping. Keep reading to find out why Todd Gerstein, CEO & Founder of Smart WebParts, thinks 2012 will be the Year of Time Capture.
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 NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vizibility Inc. and LexisNexis announced today the results of a survey conducted to shed light on the use of social media in legal services marketing.
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Connecticut Courts Weigh In on Social Media as Evidence |
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 When defendant Robert Eleck wanted to impeach the credibility of a key prosecution witness, he turned to a source that has increasingly provided a treasure trove of evidence in court cases: Facebook. The messages on the witness's Facebook page appeared to contradict her testimony that she had no contact with Eleck after he was accused of stabbing another teen at a party.
Read more on the Law.com web site....
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German Roll Top : The Laptop from the Future |
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 The future of the laptop and the tablet PC has been rolled up into one. German designer Evgeny Orkin has developed a concept design for The Rolltop. The Roll top computer is constructed of a flexible OLED display that wraps around the removable power supply stand. Tucked into the power stand is a webcam, speaker sound bar, USB ports, and the power supply and power cord.
Read More at Gadget World...
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Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word |
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 America's top court has rejected Microsoft's appeal against a ruling that Microsoft Word infringed on patents owned by a tiny Canadian software maker. The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld an earlier court's ruling that said Microsoft willfully infringed on i4i's XML patents in Word 2003 and 2007. Microsoft was ordered to pay i4i almost $300m in damages and told in the ruling that it could no longer ship Word 2003 and 2007 with the offending code. Microsoft issued a patch to sidestep the XML code and continue selling its software.
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 Leaked application tokens can give third parties access to Facebook users' personal info and the ability to post to their walls.
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 Mimecast®, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity and archiving, today announced that it was awarded the Service Excellence Award at the recent KnowList Legal IT Awards, for the second consecutive year. TheKnowList Awards are dedicated to the strategic implementation of technology within the legal profession, recognising the success of key individuals, law firms and suppliers who are constantly striving to add value using IT.
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Sydney firm scraps billable hours |
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 Sydney law firm People Culture & Strategies (for real...) is to abandon billable hours and timesheets. The ridiculously-named firm is the latest in a string of outfits looking to move away from time based billing.
Read more on the Roll on Friday site.
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 We thought it would be a good idea to have a summary of the most popular articles from 2010, some we may have forgotten or missed the article entirely.
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Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011 |
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 So here we are in a new decade, and the technologies that are now available to us continue to engage (and enthrall) in fascinating ways. The rise and collision of several trends-social, mobile, touch computing, geo, cloud-keep spitting out new products and technologies which keep propelling us forward. Below I highlight seven technologies that are ready to tip into the mainstream 2011.
Read more at TechCrunch
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Mimecast, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced the results of its 2010 Microsoft Exchange Infrastructure Survey. The survey of 590 IT professionals revealed that the majority of organisations view upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2010 to be a daunting task.
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Reliability and Service: Notebooks |
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 Overall, laptop reliability is improving gradually: 25.9 percent of respondents report experiencing at least one significant problem with their notebook, down from 30.9 percent last year and 31.8 percent two years ago. When it comes to support, 1 in 5 desktop users (21 percent) report their problem was never resolved by the manufacturer; with laptops, the rate is slightly higher at 23.6 percent.
Read more at PCWorld
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Mimecast®, an enterprise email management company offering SaaS-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced that the company has achieved an 80% year-over-year growth rate, as noted by the world¹s leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner Inc.,
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 The International Legal Technology Association's (ILTA) 2010 Conference was held in Las Vegas from the 22nd - 26th August 2010. It consisted of 160 legal technology sessions with 150 vendors from the legal sector exhibiting in the exhibition hall - rather a large get together. Here is the feedback from the event....
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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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 Johannesburg, 23 April 2012 – Samsung Electronics recently announced that SAP AG has selected the GALAXY S II and GALAXY Tab 10.1 for internal use. This announcement marks the first time that Android-based smartphones and tablets have been deployed by SAP to help enhance employee productivity.
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 Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn’t have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Facebook’s inventory consists of personal data — yours and mine.
Read more at the New York Times Sunday Review...
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 Two senior judges have retired to consider whether a Twitter message threatening to blow up a snowbound Doncaster airport was a joke or a menace to society.
Read more at The Guardian...
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Reed Elsevier denies reports that LexisNexis is for sale |
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 Salamander Davoudi (@sdavoudi) of the Financial Times reports that publishing giant, Reed Elsevier, denies reports that LexisNexis is for sale. Management intends to pursue only small-scale merger and acquisition activity within its five divisions over the next 12 months, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans, and has no plans to sell its Lexis-Nexis Legal & Professional business despite calls for its divestiture.
Read more at The LexBlog Network...
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Google under fire from all sides |
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Google faces accusations of underhand tactics from start-up Mocality, an online business directory based in Kenya, which has accused the search engine giant of malpractice and misrepresentation.
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 With South Africans starting to return to work at the end of the holiday season, there’s nothing more likely to destroy the warm afterglow of a great trip overseas than coming home to an astronomical cellphone bill after being caught in the roaming trap.
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 Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions.
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 LegalSuite have launched a competition to the local legal market, which will see one lucky winner working from the latest Apple iPad2. The competition will close on the 30th September 2011.
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Target age groups for lawyers and law firms are reading blogs and using social networks |
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 According to the latest Pew Survey, there is little question that the target audience lawyers and lawyers are trying to reach are reading blogs and using social networking sites. About 35% of Generation X (age 34 to 45) read blogs About 28% of Younger Boomers (age 46 to 55) read...
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 How on earth do you become a qualified municipal electrician in South Africa?
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The Best of ABA TECHSHOW 2011 |
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 Whew! ABA TECHSHOW is in the record books for another year. I enjoyed the Keynote and EXPO - always good to see product demonstrations and meet new vendors. And the weather was a welcome break for those of us who have yet to experience spring. As always, there is much to enjoy in Chicago by way of art, architecture, and museums. All In all, it was a perfect Silver Jubilee.
Read more at Oregon Law Practice Management site...
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 CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that its customer, international law firm SJ Berwin, has won the KnowList Award 2011 for its deployment of Autonomy's iManage Universal Search (IUS) and Phoenix Business Solutions' Knowledge Assist solutions.
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LegalTech New York 2011 Wrap-Up: Products, Trends, and More |
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 Technology announcements at LegalTech New York often provide a theme that is adopted over the course of the show. Last year, Thomson Reuters announced WestlawNext at the show and put the human element back into legal research. The "human element" echoed in the Exhibit Hall as vendors stressed their ability to facilitate human-computer interaction in e-discovery document review and software interface designs.
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 The CES Technology Show is the biggest consumer technology show in the world. It ran from the 6th to the 9th January in Las Vegas and had 2700 companies show off their latest products to consumers.
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The Web's Best Productivity Sites |
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 From Gmail to Xmarks to Wolfram Alpha, here are the 20 best sites and services for getting work done, keeping your schedule in order, finding useful information, and more. The Web's Best SitesThe Web is a big place. Really big--around 300 million sites and counting. So no one could blame you if you don't have time to browse through all that stuff, try all the latest and greatest online services, and find the very best. Good news: We've done it for you.
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HDTVs and Home Theater: Best of 2010 |
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 Home-theater enthusiasts have a lot to play with this year, as top-quality HDTVs, media streamers, headphones, and music players from Apple, Samsung, Sonos, and Western Digital, among others, make our list.
Read more at PCWorld...
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 Norton Rose has announced tie-ups with Canadian firm Ogilvy Renault and South African firm Deneys Reitz. The mergers come less than a year after Norton Rose formalised its tie-up with Australian firm Deacons, now Norton Rose Australia, as the City firm continues its global expansion.
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 Global Legal Professionals is an international network of globally accredited professionals specializing in the delivery of world class professional services to its clients. The network is accredited by the relevant regulatory bodies and provides its members with (inter alia) advertising and advertising discounts, access to our database of approximtately 1,000 professionals, regular mail shots, referral work, copies of standard legal documents, newsletters, updates and copies of frequently asked questions and answers.
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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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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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