IT and the London Civil Courts
This article is an edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s lecture to the London Solicitors Litigation Association….
Lawtech & Lawyers
The Application of Information Technology
In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….
LSLA and Bar Report on Technology in the Civil Courts
At the end of June this year, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and selected members of the Bar published a joint report, The Practitioner Working Group Report on Investment in Technology in the Civil Courts of England and Wales. The report was commented on by Lord Justice Brooke in his speech to the LSLA and is available in full as a Web article on the SCL site….
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Generic v Specific Software
Alastair Morrison responds to the call in an issue of the magazine for articles on whether generic software can do most of the IT work required by the legal profession…
EDMS Software: Winning Legal Business
Egami-Legal Litigation Support from DPA-Egami was a finalist for the 1998 SCL Award….
Data Tagging
Adam Westbrooke argues the importance of data tagging but explains that its importance does not dictate that it must be complex….
Product Review: DTSEARCH 5.00
Jonathan Goodliffe is a Solicitor at Simmons & Simmons….
The Gap between IT and Business
This article is an edited version of a ‘White Paper’ published by Boxwood Technology, a unit of management consultancy Boxwood Group. It is the product too of a research agency which was commissioned by Boxwood to talk to managers and partners at 20 leading law firms. There is an oft-reported gap between expectations at board or partner level of what IT can do and what the IT function actually delivers. The aim of the research was to test whether that gap existed in business operating in the legal profession….
Transcript of SCL’s 30th Anniversary Lecture by Richard Christou
This is the edited transcript of Richard Christou’s lecture on the occasion of the SCL’s 30th Anniversary….
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A Leading-edge e-court in Australia
Sandra Potter and Phil Farrelly describe how Australia has moved closer to paperless courts with the completion of a world class ‘leading edge electronic court’….