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Taking it personally - consumerisation brings a little style into legal technology

With budgets under pressure, IT heads are scrambling to adapt to consumerisation, contain costs and find ways to capture and manage commercially-crucial data. Neil Hodge tracks the latest trends in legal tech...
20 minute read

International Edition

Follow where I lead - Norton Rose's bid to build a flexible firmwide information system

Mobile, accessible and global – Norton Rose's Sheila Doyle outlines the firm's ambitious bid to build and integrate flexible information systems that can support its staff across its expanding international network
5 minute read

International Edition

Olswang makes out-of-season partner promotion with outsourcing lawyer made up

Olswang has made an out-of-season partner promotion in response to an upturn in work in the outsourcing sector. Matthew Bennett has joined the partnership as of 1 November in the firm's commercial group.
2 minute read

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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 Fisher's IT hardware and is fully responsible for its maintenance.
3 minute read

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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 functions for the firm, including helpdesk, infrastructure and training.
2 minute read

International Edition

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 services outsourcing practice.
2 minute read

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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 topic for this group is that I believe technology will be the single biggest driver of change for the legal sector in the long term.
8 minute read

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Technology toy box - top gadgets for general counsel

What treasures do general counsel keep in their technology toy chests? Law Technology News asked 10 GCs – most in tech-related industries such as robotics, games, biotech, digital media, social networking, consumer electronics and software security – to let us take a peek...
4 minute read

International Edition

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 understanding of how their legal function operates and it went from there," Justin Moses explains. Moses, corporate counsel and general manager of the legal product and distribution department at the Australian banking group Westpac, is referring to an innovative series of what the company calls "benchmarking study tours" it has carried out in recent years. The bank's legal team has been visiting international companies in the US and UK to learn from other in-house counsel how they conduct their legal counsel functions and what ideas and structures the banking group can replicate back in Australia and New Zealand.
5 minute read

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The i in team - current IT trends at US firms

After years of barely registering a pulse on The American Lawyer's annual associate technology survey, New York's Proskauer Rose jumped 47 spots in this year's rankings to land in 26th place. What happened? The firm attributes the spike to its new technology programme, implemented in April, which lets lawyers choose between a laptop computer or a combination of a desktop and an iPad. More than 600 of the firm's 700 lawyers have opted for the latter. The iPad "is a very versatile device, and our lawyers are using it in all kinds of ways," says Steven Kayman, a senior litigation partner at Proskauer and head of the firm's technology committee.
6 minute read

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