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Head in the cloud: who is responsible for our data in the cloud?

Data privacy regulations are becoming more complex in today's changing IT landscape, and the consequences are huge. It's increasingly important for businesses to keep up to date on legal and regulatory issues of using public cloud while complying with the EU data protection framework.
6 minute read

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The electronic explosion: how corporate legal teams can use data to maximise efficiency

The sheer volumes of data corporates now hold, and the regulations governing its maintenance, are growing at a rapid pace. So how can corporate legal departments survive and thrive in this data deluge? This video looks at the challenges presented by the explosion in email and electronic content.
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Explaining where all that money goes - what do lawyers think about their firm's IT?

Legal Week has just launched the 2014 version of its annual law firm information technology survey. It is designed for use by lawyers in all UK law firms, and only takes 10 minutes to complete. It covers the use of, and users' views on, a variety of enabling office and mobile hardware and software.
2 minute read

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Legal Week launches survey to test the quality of law firm IT

Legal Week today launches an ambitious survey that sets out to help law firms improve the technology they provide to their fee earners.
2 minute read

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It pays to read the small print - the dissertation on IT and law that transformed a career

"It was 1981, and IBM had just launched its first PC. I was an undergraduate at Glasgow University and was almost alone in the law school in being excited about the possible impact of this new technology. I wanted to understand what the computer might mean for the legal world - how might it revolutionise this remarkably traditional profession into which I was heading?
4 minute read

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Why you should go mobile for your legal research

Head of mobile for Thomson Reuters, Legal UK & Ireland, Chris Hendry explains why you should go mobile for your legal research
5 minute read

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Why you should go mobile for your legal research

In this article, in association with Thomson Reuters, Chris Hendry sets out eight top reasons why you should go mobile for your legal research...
1 minute read

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Legal IT: lions led by donkeys?

Almost a year ago, I wrote about my reflections as a guest speaker at Legal Week's annual Strategic Technology Forum, held in the hills of rural Italy, around an hour from Rome. A tough job, but somebody had to do it, so I gathered my postage stamp's worth of technical IT knowledge and off I went, hoping not to be found out.
5 minute read

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Why old school attitudes to technology are hitting law firm profitability

Neil Cameron explains why an outdated approach to IT means a waste of time for lawyers and a waste of money for clients...
12 minute read

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A tailor-made fit - bespoke IT solutions for today's law firms

Albert Einstein once said: "If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." While IT strategy is neither rocket science nor particle physics, the same truths apply. The issue of understanding the problem is the main role of today's IT director. And no longer is this solely a question of purchasing technology that satisfies the required technical specifications.
7 minute read

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