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Dentons and Herbert Smith lead on rescue of inflight technology firm

Denton Wilde Sapte and Herbert Smith have advised on the rescue of inflight mobile technology company AeroMobile after five weeks in administration. AeroMobile went into administration at the end of December, with Dentons instructed in the lead role for administrator BDO.
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How secure is your PDF?

Adobe PDFs are frequently used in the business environment, but, say Keith Jones and Ryan Lerminiaux, other measures should be taken to increase security on more sensitive documents
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A matter of timing

The costs of disclosure have rocketed in recent years with the shift from paper to electronic documents. The growth of email, together with the increased use of portable digital devices, has combined to produce an explosion in the volume of documents created by businesses, and the courts have now begun to take notice. Lord Justice Jackson has identified the disclosure process as one of the main causes of excessive litigation costs, and a string of recent judgments have penalised litigants for failing to properly manage their disclosure exercises.
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The not-so-quick draw

Many legal departments have significant concerns about how to handle data when called upon to do so for litigation or regulatory response. Many in-house lawyers consider that their company policies and procedures in this area are unclear and unworkable, with less than one in five aware of the existence of policies for collecting and processing data. According to our recent survey of more than 200 senior in-house lawyers, half of respondents admit to being concerned about the legal department's ability to find data.
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A higher platform

Deciding to become an early adopter for Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system was one of those moments when all of the stars aligned. It was time to replace the hardware at Allen Matkins, and we wanted to improve the efficiency and administration of our technology environment as well as help our lawyers be more effective with 24/7 access to mission-critical tools. Windows 7 happened to become available at the right time, and the operating system performed as well as the marketing materials said it could. Allen Matkins is an entrepreneurial firm by nature, so this fact, coupled with our track record of choosing effective early solutions, made it relatively easy to gain firmwide approval.
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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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International Edition

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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