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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.
7 minute read

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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.
11 minute read

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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.
4 minute read

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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.
3 minute read

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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.
6 minute read

International Edition

Microsoft signs up to new outsourcing deal with Integreon

Microsoft has signed a new deal with Integreon that will see the legal process outsourcing (LPO) company carry out further legal support services for the software giant. The new agreement, which confirms Integreon as Microsoft's exclusive provider of offshore managed document review, will see the a team of lawyers in India provide contract review and offshore document review for Microsoft.
2 minute read

International Edition

Shake the foundation

LexisNexis' Bob Hadingham argues that law firms should be gearing up to radically overhaul their underlying business processes in order to emerge from the recession in the best possible form
6 minute read

International Edition

iHelp - the best new gadgets for lawyers

I like the way the guys who run the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) think. January, after all, already has enough strikes against it - bad weather, the post-holiday return to work, all those resolutions I'll never keep. Why not brighten the mood with a peek at great technology that's soon to hit the market? Each year, CES comes through - and this year was no exception. But 2010 did have a twist. The most-anticipated product announcement - Apple's iPad - came several weeks after the big show ended, from a company that has historically opted out of CES in favour of more intimate unveilings.
9 minute read

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SJ Berwin and Macfarlanes advise on £200m technology fund

SJ Berwin and Macfarlanes have advised on the creation of a £200m investment fund aimed at boosting the innovation technology sector in the UK. The creation of the Future Technologies Fund saw the Government and the European Investment Fund each put in £100m, with the commitment announced last month (22 February).
2 minute read

International Edition

Microsoft outsources legal work to India with CPA Global deal

Microsoft has entered into an agreement with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global to offshore legal work to lawyers in India. The technology giant began a pilot scheme with CPA in October and formally rolled it out at the end of 2009. A team of between three and five qualified lawyers at CPA are handling multi-jurisdictional legal support work, including legal research, for Microsoft. The lawyers are based in CPA's offices in Gurgaon, near Delhi.
3 minute read

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