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Gibson Dunn, Slaughters lead firms on HP's £7bn Autonomy takeover

Gibson Dunn and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on Hewlett-Packard's (HP) £7.1bn takeover bid for Britain's largest software company Autonomy, in a deal which could become the largest ever in the history of the European IT sector.
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The rise of the technophile - why IT teams will have to learn to love personalisation

Since law firms started providing IT systems and services to their employees, those firms have dictated which device would be used. Over the decades of in-house IT systems and services, the nature of those devices has changed very little. A large proportion of the static working population have used desktop machines for years – yes, they are smaller, much more powerful and have a much wider range of services, but they remain fundamentally the same. The user gets a screen – flat and much larger, a processing unit – now small and often hidden away, and a keyboard with a mouse.
6 minute read

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How to share nicely - experimenting with crowd sourcing and legal wikis

The last decade has seen the mass adoption of social media and a fierce debate on the value of content. Yet few are grappling with what this really means for the legal profession. Social media is opening up new ways of communicating and is part of a wider change in how the professionals of the future will share their ideas.
5 minute read

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Social issues: law firm IT directors discuss challenges presented by social media

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – there's no escaping the infiltration of social media in the workplace. Legal Week's IT roundtable focused on its use by employees, the data risks involved and how it can be used to a firm's advantage
5 minute read

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Pass it on and track it - how law firms can boost their referrrals

Law firms taking advantage of modern referral management techniques are reaping the rewards of their lawyers' relationships. LexisNexis' Gina Connell explains how to maximise results with minimal effort
7 minute read

International Edition

Treading carefully - managing company security while keeping employee privacy intact

Kroll Ontrack's Ben Fielding examines the challenging paradox of how to manage company security while keeping employee privacy policies intact...
6 minute read

International Edition

Norton Rose makes double hire for new knowledge management roles

Norton Rose has made a double management hire to fill two new roles of group chief information officer and group director of knowledge management. The UK top 10 firm has recruited former Royal Mail IT director Sheila Doyle for the information officer role and Clifford Chance (CC) director of global knowledge systems Sam Dimond as knowledge management chief.
2 minute read

International Edition

SRA invests £20m in IT and gears up for Birmingham opening

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is investing £20m in IT systems as it prepares for the introduction of outcomes-focused regulation (OFR) later this year. The £20m figure includes the cost of upgrading the SRA's existing IT platform as well as the launch of a new project - dubbed Smartview - which allows the regulator to monitor law firms, alternative business structures (ABSs) and individuals on a case-by-case basis and track all regulatory breaches as part of the move to OFR.
3 minute read

International Edition

Information behaving badly: the struggle to protect client data in the social media age

Social media has revolutionised the way many businesses work, including the organisation of client contacts and other communications. As the use of sites such as LinkedIn becomes more widespread, employers may find it harder to control their client lists and ultimately to protect their business from departing employees set on poaching clients. In a recent study in the US, six out of 10 employees admitted that they had taken company data (such as client lists) on their departure.
7 minute read

International Edition

System of exchange - predicting costs and controlling payments

Recognising the importance of client retention, law firms have begun to embrace more client-centric strategies since the recession. Technology has been effective in helping to underpin best practice, particularly when it comes to international payments. Recognising the unique external challenges that today's law firm's face such as increased currency volatility, Travelex Global Business Payments has built the first law firm-specific online payment system. GlobalPay Legal by Travelex Global Business Payments incorporates a state-of-the-art online payment system that enables law firms to make all types of payments and also to book future payments. This allows firms to fix the exchange rate and schedule payments under £10,000 for release at any time within 120 days. This means that firms will know the precise sterling cost of their related or client billable items and can invoice their client the exact sterling amount, allowing greater control over their incoming and outgoing payments and also eliminating the need to re-invoice clients or post losses due to currency movements.
4 minute read

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