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Technology provider of the year

The importance of technology to the legal sector is underlined by the fact that it featured in several of the shortlisted entries for the two innovation awards. This year the British Legal Awards set out to recognise the contribution made by technology suppliers to the legal sector with this new category. Technology supplier of the year was one of the most closely fought of all the categories.
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Best use of technology

LG wins this award for its project to turn fee earners' BlackBerrys into 'pocket offices'. The aim of this project was to boost LG's competitiveness by allowing staff to undertake an array of tasks while on the move that they would normally only be able to complete easily in their offices. The key features of the firm's pocket office concept are:
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The mark of the wise

During the past decade and a half, the internet has grown from a small array of a few thousand websites to a vast network of hundreds of millions of distinct sites containing billions of web pages. Although the internet has presented a new frontier for both trademark use and infringement, the growth of social media sites during the past few years has posed particular challenges for brand owners. These sites, which include blogs, virtual worlds, marketplaces, image networks and relative newcomers such as Facebook and Twitter, allow users to interact with each other, effectively building a community.
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Non-profit group calls for rethink of law firm deal documentation

Not-for-profit organisation Legal IT Innovators Group (LITIG) has teamed up with an in-house organisation counting BAE Systems and Barclays among its members to push for law firms to adopt a new, consistent system for sending deal documents to clients. LITIG, which is supported by more than 70 law firms across the UK, is calling for firms to use a standardised file system for deal bibles following research carried out by partner group Knowledge Management and IT (KMIT), which includes Barclays legal and compliance group's head of operations Andrew Dey among its members.
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Will meetings of the future be televised?

Gregory Gallo has been spending less time at the airport lately. Instead of hopping on a plane for important meetings, the DLA Piper partner ducks into a high-tech conference room in the firm's East Palo Alto office for a face-to-face with colleagues and clients hundreds or thousands of miles away. He can't shake their hands, but he can make eye contact, pick up on facial expressions, read body language and easily gauge the group dynamic - things that the limitations of traditional video conferencing systems made difficult to do in the past.
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Microsoft finds a low-cost window to battle those pricey pirates

Microsoft doesn't take piracy lightly. Last year the software giant filed dozens of lawsuits against counterfeit software makers. And with few exceptions, they were, like most piracy cases, similar and predictable. That's why piracy cases are ideally suited for alternative fee arrangements with outside counsel, says Microsoft senior attorney Mary Jo Schrade. So about a year ago, Schrade approached lawyers at Seattle-based firm Perkins Coie about handling the company's piracy cases for a flat fee. "We thought this would be a perfect place to start," Schrade says.
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E-discovery demystified

E-discovery technology will save lawyers time, effort and money, but is it too far out of their comfort zones? Craig Earnshaw and Nick Athanasi reveal how best to work with IT teams to understand the process
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Eversheds holds off sale of pioneering Tyco support technology

Eversheds has looked at selling its Global Account Management System (GAMS) after discussions with a number of IT providers. The firm has been approached by a number of organisations, including LexisNexis, which was interested in buying the product, which allows clients and lawyers within the firm detailed online access to up-to-date information about work in progress across all relevant jurisdictions.
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Addleshaws and A&O score top marks in new study highlighting IT best practice at law firms

New Legal Week research identifies best-performing firms for IT with survey of more than 3,500 fee earners
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Blueprint for success

Law firms have long shunned the kind of process management familiar to contractors in other service industries. But, finds Gina Passarella, the profession is expected to try again
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