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DLA Piper recruits Bird & Bird's Paris co-head in hire of five-strong IT team

DLA Piper has hired a team of IT lawyers from Bird & Bird's Paris base led by office co-head Stephane Lemarchand. Lemarchand, Bird & Bird's international IT co-head and Paris practice chief, has been a partner at the firm for 10 years. He will join DLA on 2 November along with a team of four associates.
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Taylor Wessing set to roll out online business development training

Taylor Wessing is set to launch an online business development (BD) training platform as part of its bid to increase the amount of time its lawyers spend on client relationship projects. The online programme will go live in mid-November and will make BD-related guidance notes, videos and podcasts available to all fee earners from their desktops.
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Latham launches corporate jargon iPhone app for deal lawyers

Latham & Watkins has launched a new iPhone application which provides deal lawyers easy access to a digital glossary of financial, legal and regulatory jargon, reports The Am Law Daily. The new app, called The Book of Jargon, offers free access to more than 750 definitions of corporate and finance slang and terminology.
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Social media grows - new survey show more acceptance of technology among lawyers

The results of an American Bar Association survey show more acceptance of technology among lawyers, says Catherine Sanders Reach
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The slow trek forward - firms remain unconvinced of legal project management technology

Listen in on any gathering of IT directors and after the usual stories of budget battles, who's moving to the cloud and maybe a lament about not following mum's advice to study medicine, the conversation usually turns to legal project management. Not the 'what' of project management - successful IT departments mastered 'what' early on. Nor do the discussions linger on 'how' - Amazon.com lists more than 15,000 entries for 'IT project management' backed by consultants, classes and associations. It's the 'who' that prompts the most passionate debate - as in, 'who in my firm, besides me, believes the benefits of project management can be applied to the practise of law?'
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Choosing change - Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum

This year's Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum addressed the themes of the current business environment, business efficiency and profitability and business strategy. In many ways the issues discussed were not new - conferences have been discussing whether the legal market is changing for many years and the end of the billable hour was predicted a decade ago, yet there is still much debate about how firms need to adapt to deal with alternative fee arrangements.
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The iPad - toy or tool?

With apologies to the missus, my three weeks with Apple's iPad have reminded me of my old dating days. There would be that instant attraction, some really good things in the mix, but all the while I'd be wondering - just where is this relationship going? The iPad is a terrific device - for certain tasks. It does a stellar job of playing video, with a crisp, vivid display that puts plenty of laptops to shame. It gets great battery life; ten hours or more on a charge. It provides surprisingly fast web browsing. And who can complain about a device that starts up at the press of a button? With the right apps - those specialised add-on programmes that have helped make Apple's iPhone the tech world's biggest recent phenomenon - the iPad will probably do a lot of things very well.
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Corporate Counsel's Best Legal Department of 2010 - Microsoft

On 16 December last year Microsoft's legal department settled the company's longest and most expensive antitrust legal battle. In a major concession to European regulators, the software giant agreed to open its Windows operating system to rival Web browsers. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith and his legal team spent months last year hammering out the details of the 61-page settlement with the European Commission (EC). By autumn, Microsoft's legal department had held 24 videoconferences and 34 conference calls with EC lawyers. "We wanted to be seen as a company that would work with regulators," said deputy general counsel David Heiner, who heads the antitrust group and led much of the negotiations.
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Camerons set to outsource entire back office with Integreon deal

CMS Cameron McKenna is set to outsource its entire support staff function after signing an agreement with Integreon. The UK top 20 firm's staff were informed of the move in a series of briefings this morning. Under the terms of the deal, Integreon will review Camerons' entire UK back office function, including all support departments, to establish which parts can be transferred to an external Integreon-run outsourcing centre.
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IT: Invest to progress

IT professionals from the top 50 law firms are optimistic about the year ahead and are looking to make new investments, according to a roundtable discussion on 18 March 2010 looking at the key findings of the Legal Week Intelligence IT Report 2009, in association with Rekoop.
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