New survey findings from PA Consulting Group and Legal IT Magazine provide insights into the use of IT in large law firms and the extent to which it supports strategic objectives….
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Searchflow won the SCL Award 2002. Here Mark Riddick, Chief Executive Officer of Searchflow, explains what the NLIS system offers and uses the licence traditionally granted to Award winners to outline the benefits of his particular channel….
In the August/September edition of Computers & Law, Amanda Kearsley and Nick Rudgard explored the difficulties of reconciling the principles of disclosure under the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and the disclosure of personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) arising from the case of Totalise plc v The Motley Fool Limited and Interactive Investor Limited (2001) P&T 764. In December 2001, the Court of Appeal overturned the costs order made at the original hearing and set out the principles for the future. The new approach will have a significant impact on the position of organisations, such as Web site operators, from whom disclosures of information may be sought. This article reviews that approach….
This is an extract from the speech of Lord Goldsmith QC, the Attorney-General, at the SCL Award ceremony on 21 January….
Following the article on the SCL Web site and many reports elsewhere, I thought I would add a little realism to the debate. 1. Cookies don’t work for decent marketing in many situations because most home PCs and many work PCs will be used by several people, but the cookies will treat them as a…
If there is one constant that all businesses face throughout their life cycle, it would be managing legal risk exposures. Given the unique nature of information technology (IT) businesses, legal risk exposures can be particularly accentuated. The need to evolve a sound and proactive legal risk management framework as part of the enterprise’s legal strategy is becoming an imperative. A sound legal risk management framework should provide a seamless integration of legal contents or guidance with an IT-driven workflow process. Here expert systems can play an important role in the design of such legal risk management systems. Zaid Hamzah, CEO, Lexfutura (Global) and Managing Director, I-Knowledge Technologies, Singapore, provides a road map….
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Juliet Humphries and Lucy Dillon examine the relationship between knowledge management and risk management and highlight many of the good practice points that apply. This is the first in a series of articles on ‘Knowledge for Successful Law Firms’, which is being developed by the SCL Knowledge Management Group. For more on this initiative, see vol 14, issue 2 ‘Will the Real Knowledge Management Please Step Forward!’…
Kirsten Houghton and Kate Vaughan-Neil apply old rules to new packages. They ask whether the square peg e-mail, really can be fitted into the round hole of the postal rule….
Paul Berwin and Sarah Ruston report on their experience at the IT Law Conference….
Rick Klau, Vice President of Legal Markets at Interface Software, explains what relationship intelligence is….
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