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Field Fisher becomes one of first major UK law firms to adopt cloud computing
Field Fisher Waterhouse has become one of the first major UK law firms to turn to cloud computing in an effort to modernise its IT systems and cut costs. The firm has partnered with technology provider Virtustream, which now owns all of Field Fishe...
03 Nov 2011 | 00:00 | 
Eversheds renews IT outsourcing agreement with £30m five-year deal
Eversheds has renewed its IT services outsourcing contract with Computacenter for a further five years. The new deal, which will take effect from 1 January next year, will see the IT infrastructure company continue to provide various core support f...
28 Oct 2011 | 15:25 |
Squire Sanders Hammonds signs up Pinsents partner as outsourcing and procurement chief
Squire Sanders Hammonds has recruited a partner from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing and procurement group. Garfield Smith joined the firm on 1 October from Pinsents, where he had been a partner for four years and headed the financial...
21 Oct 2011 | 14:59 |
Hasta la vista baby – will technology lead to the termination of the legal profession?
Later this week I’m running a session for a group of leading technology lawyers which will explore the future of the profession. Withington & Co's new M&A lawyer was a force to be reckoned with Why I think this will be particularly interesting t...
13 Oct 2011 | 16:11
The globe trotters - what international institutions taught an Aussie banking giant
“The idea first came about from the relationship the bank has with IBM, which provides significant IT and system support to us. In the course of setting up things with them we had a discussion with their general counsel about trying to get a better ...
15 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Gibson Dunn, Slaughters lead firms on HP's £7bn Autonomy takeover
Gibson Dunn and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) £7.1bn takeover bid for Britain’s largest software company Autonomy, in a deal which could become the largest ever in the history of the European IT sector.
19 Aug 2011 | 10:53 |
The rise of the technophile - why IT teams will have to learn to love personalisation
Since law firms started providing IT systems and services to their employees, those firms have dictated which device would be used. Over the decades of in-house IT systems and services, the nature of those devices has changed very little. A large prop...
21 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Legal Week Web Seminar: Setting the scene on e-Discovery
This webinar, supported by Symantec, will highlight the legal e-discovery landscape, utilising data and opinion from a recent survey of over 5,000 lawyers across 10 countries. Furthermore, our expert panel will provide an overview of the current state...
19 Jul 2011 | 10:31 | 
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How to share nicely - experimenting with crowd sourcing and legal wikis
The last decade has seen the mass adoption of social media and a fierce debate on the value of content. Yet few are grappling with what this really means for the legal profession. Social media is opening up new ways of communicating and is part of a w...
14 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Social issues: law firm IT directors discuss challenges presented by social media
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – there’s no escaping the infiltration of social media in the workplace. Legal Week’s IT roundtable focused on its use by employees, the data risks involved and how it can be used to a firm’s advantage
16 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
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Pass it on and track it - how law firms can boost their referrrals
Law firms taking advantage of modern referral management techniques are reaping the rewards of their lawyers’ relationships. LexisNexis’ Gina Connell explains how to maximise results with minimal effort
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Treading carefully - managing company security while keeping employee privacy intact
Kroll Ontrack's Ben Fielding examines the challenging paradox of how to manage company security while keeping employee privacy policies intact...
12 May 2011 | 00:00 |
Norton Rose makes double hire for new knowledge management roles
Norton Rose has made a double management hire to fill two new roles of group chief information officer and group director of knowledge management. The UK top 10 firm has recruited former Royal Mail IT director Sheila Doyle for the information offic...
10 May 2011 | 15:06 |
SRA invests £20m in IT and gears up for Birmingham opening
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is investing £20m in IT systems as it prepares for the introduction of outcomes-focused regulation (OFR) later this year. The £20m figure includes the cost of upgrading the SRA's existing IT platform as w...
17 Mar 2011 | 01:01 |
Information behaving badly: the struggle to protect client data in the social media age
Social media has revolutionised the way many businesses work, including the organisation of client contacts and other communications. As the use of sites such as LinkedIn becomes more widespread, employers may find it harder to control their client li...
15 Mar 2011 | 11:03 |
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