With a combined 20 years of business development experience in the legal technology industry, Karen Clifford and David Grabner bring expert insights to Client Profiles after joining the company as regional sales managers.

"Karen and David have each spent the last decade working closely with law firms across the country," said Dave Hutchinson, executive vice president of sales and marketing. "Their solid past performances and in-depth knowledge of the services our clients need make them the perfect new additions to our growing team."

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Legal IT Professionals is proud to announce that Jan Berinstein has agreed to join the panel of colmnists. Jan Berinstein, Ph.D. runs her own software-training company, CompuSavvy Computer Training & Consulting, which caters to the legal profession.  Over the past 15 years, she has trained staff at numerous law firms, government agencies, corporate legal departments, and various other organizations throughout California.  Via her company, she teaches computer lab classes as well, most of which are tailored for lawyers, legal secretaries, and paralegals.  She provides her training clients and her students with copious handouts that she writes herself.

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Firm Uses Industry’s Leading Enterprise Search Platform to Provide Employees with Instant, Accurate Access to Information

Recommind, the leader in search-powered information management solutions for enterprises and law firms, today announced that a leading global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 12 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia has selected MindServer™ Search to power its knowledge management needs.

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Personal injury firm to reduce claims processing time by a third, grow claims handling volume by more than 65% a month

LexisNexis® UK, a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions including legal enterprise software, today announced that personal injury practice The Skemp Partnership Solicitors has selected LexisNexis® Visualfiles® case and matter management system and LexisNexis® PIP Broker, a cross platform application-to-application interface module, to comply with the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) Road Traffic Accident (RTA) Personal Injury (PI) claims reforms, reduce operational costs and grow its business.

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Document Technologies, Inc. (DTI), the nation’s largest independent provider of comprehensive discovery and onsite facilities management services, is pleased to announce that attorney and legal support services industry veteran Colleen Freeman has joined the company as a senior manager of client services for DTI’s Boston office. In this newly created role, Ms. Freeman is responsible for leading DTI’s effort to expand its market share in the Northeast e-discovery and litigation consulting market.

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Company brings first document management system to the legal industry powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Accola, a legal technology and IT services company, today announced the release of Epona’s DMS4Legal to the North American legal industry. DMS4Legal brings the first document management system powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010® to law firms across the U.S. The product was first released in Europe in early 2010 and has garnered much interest from firms for the functionality and capabilities it adds to their practices.

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Legal discovery, or ediscovery, has become a normal business process in most organizations. Perhaps not as frequently used as a sales force automation tool, but at times perhaps more important. With increasingly demanding rules for legal discovery and production, there is a critical need for what is becoming a near constant proactive review of the information held within the enterprise. Given the exploding amount of information and the growing number of sources where business information can reside, the legal discovery business process is now much more than a “sideline” activity that can be run from some small scale appliance under the desk of a legal professional.

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The partnership between Client Profiles and Microsoft Dynamics has been highly successful for both companies, a fact that was on display at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. In front of a crowd of 14,000 people, Client Profiles' president and CEO Whit McIsaac took the stage to accept the 2010 Partner of the Year in Professional Services award. This is the second year in a row that the company has earned that distinction, an accomplishment that only a handful of companies achieve.

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Barker Booth & Eastwood, a long established firm of solicitors based in the North West, has chosen TikitTFB as their official solutions partner to replace their existing IRIS AIM Evolution Accounts system and introduce a comprehensive case and document management system firm-wide.

The 50 user system will be deployed in phases with the accounts and desktop components scheduled to go-live during September. The second phase will concentrate on developing the case management system including the creation of caseflows for their Personal Injury and Conveyancing departments, and is expected to be completed before the end of the year.

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Legal IT Professionals selected as Media Partner

As legal executives work to comply with increased regulation and reduce cost for the department they are scrutinizing budgets, re-defining vendor relationships and implementing new technology to better manage workflow and data. Join a selection of your most respected peers at the 4th Legal Technology Exchange, October 3-5, to develop a new approach to technology planning that will bolster your organization's legal department with more pointed use of technology.

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Besting Legal DMS Competition in 2010 Law Technology News Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey Results

World Software Corporation®, the company behind the award-winning Worldox® Document Management System (DMS) software, today announced that Worldox has scored the highest among its competitors in the 2010 Law Technology News Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey, conducted by ALM Legal Intelligence.  Worldox bested its DMS competition in 8 out of 9 categories and had the highest overall average % for vendor satisfaction.  Also, Worldox/Web Mobile attained top marks in the Mobile Tools/Devices/Services category.

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Four of Top Six Firms in AmLaw 100 Survey Are Now Clients

nQueue Billback LLC, the leading provider of software-based information accountability, expense management and cost recovery systems today announced continued growth in the second quarter of 2010 and outstanding results overall for the one-year period since its formation by merger. Based on the second quarter results and the 2010 AmLaw 100 list of the top-grossing firms in the United States (released in May 2010), the company can count four of the top six firms as clients. The company has added 30 new clients in the past year and now more than one-third of the AmLaw 100 firms are nQueue Billback clients.

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I’ve been running Microsoft’s Office 2010 on my home PC for about a month now and have to say I’m impressed. Well as impressed as you can be with an email client, a word processor and a spreadsheet application!

I thought I’d share in a few blog posts some of the really nice features of Outlook 2010 that I think will be useful for lawyers. For the first post I want to take a look at a couple of nice ways in which Outlook 2010 helps you organise and find email.

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Make it Great.  Yes, that’s the vanilla marketing tagline Microsoft came up with for promoting Office 2010.  This begs the question that’s on legal IT’s collective mind these days: is 2010 actually great, or is it chaos and misery stuffed into a shrink-wrapped box?

On May 12, 2010, Microsoft announced worldwide availability of Office 2010, so the product is officially out of the gate…and running?  The issue is: will it run well, will it be in the running for your firm, or will it run you over?  Microsoft dominates the legal market and is part of the woodwork of most law firms by now, so many sites are likely to be impacted by this new release, for better or for worse. 

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European Litigation Technology Service Firm H7b1 expands French presence with wholly owned subsidiary

Swiss Group H7b1, the forerunner of the litigation technology practice on Continental Europe, announces today that it has added a French subsidiary, H7b1 Eurl.

Created in November 2009, this new subsidiary is managed from the Group’s Paris office located at “La Défense”, which is in the heart of the city’s business sector. Being a wholly owned subsidiary, it directly benefits from the longstanding experience and technology of the Swiss group.

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Social Networking continues to grow and although there is a lot of trivia being discussed, there are also some serious business discussions and related business information being passed around. We should not ignore this information as it may be useful to our business and I don’t believe the phenomenon (if that is what it is) of Social Networking will go away. If anything, we will see more people joining in the discussions and more products and innovative ways of communicating coming out of it, so if you don’t engage early then you may be in danger of missing out on any opportunities that evolve.

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Company selected for innovation and progressive technology serving the legal community in cloud computing and SaaS

Nextpoint Inc., the nation’s leading provider of next-generation litigation support services to law firms and corporate law departments, announced today that the company has been selected by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Global Top 250 Private Companies. 

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FWBS continues to lead the way in providing innovative software solutions to legal professionals, meeting the demands faced by law firms of all sizes. Despite tough economic conditions, FWBS have significantly expanded their client base recently, winning notable top tier firms including Kingsley Napley, Wedlake Bell, and The Treasury Solicitors Department (TSol), amongst many others.

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Cardiff and Newport-based criminal and family specialists, Temple Chambers, has chosen to upgrade in sequence to IRIS Hosted Services then IRIS Meridian Law Connected for improved multi-site and remote access along with enhanced chambers management afforded by the systems’ advanced functionality.

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Content Management and Viewing Technology Leader Participates in XML Section to Help Determine Standards for Electronic Discovery

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, today announced that it has joined the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Project of The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), an industry group created to establish practical guidelines and standards for electronic discovery (eDiscovery).  Joining the EDRM offers IGC the opportunity to work alongside several of its partners, including CT Summation, Clearwell Systems, EMC and IBM eDiscovery, as well as other vendors and individuals in the space on a project that benefits the entire eDiscovery community.

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