LFI Survey: Issues, Staff and Salaries
A wide-ranging survey of IT directors in law firms by LFI, the specialist professional services and financial services recruitment consultancy, has made a number of interesting and detailed findings.
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Towards 2000: Bristol Fashion
Bristol was the venue for the latest SCL Information Technology for Lawyers Workshop and Exhibition….
Scottish Group Report: The Commoditisation of Legal Services – The Killer Legal APP?
Johan Hall of NETLEX Legal & Financial Portals (www.netlex.net) reports on a Meeting of the Scottish Group held jointly with theIn-House Lawyers Group of the Law Society of Scotland at Standard Life, Tanfield,Edinburgh, 13 October 1999. E-commerce and new software can revolutionise the way legal services aredelivered. The Desktop Lawyer Service (www.desktoplawyer.net) and the Rapidocsoftware…
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Office 2000 Review
Martin Riseley works for Cadence Europress Ltd, a developer of legal software.
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Re-structuring SCL – Our Vision for the Future
Chris Reed and John Irving are Joint Chairmen of SCL. SCL reached a milestone in its history this year. It is 25 years since a bandof enlightened lawyers recognised the need for an organisation to push forwardthe introduction of ‘computers’ into the legal profession. That battle hasbeen won, and the emphasis has changed from pioneering…
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SCL Award 2000
Will you mark the millennium by winning or nominating the winner for thisprestigious Award? Since its inception in 1989 over 250 organisations have been nominated forthe award and a record entry is expected in this 25th Anniversary year of theSociety. Each year the profile of the Society’s Award for the most outstandingapplication of Information Technology…
Scottish Group Annual Lecture
The Scottish Group’s Annual Lecture and Supper was held in Edinburgh
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Working from Home: Staying Sane and Staying Sociable
Laurence Eastham, freelance editor, legal writer and former Editor of Computers & Law, shares his wit, words and wisdom on the topic of homeworking…
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Talking Point – A New Era of Speech Recognition
Francis Davis is Business Development Manager at Dictaphone UK Limited….
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NEC ’99: Emerging Trends
David Riggall is Principal Consultant with R & B Associates,independent IT advisers based in York. He may be contacted at drmbcs@randb.freeserve.co.uk Spring was in the air at the National Legal Office & Legal ServicesExhibition at the NEC in March. Three of the top five suppliers were missing,although all five Law Society software solutions for smaller…