Cloud computing
Eclipse TouchPoint – the new era of law firm client self-service
Darren Gower represents Eclipse Legal Systems Eclipse’s new TouchPoint solution provides your clients, customers, partners and stakeholders with true self-service control. Providing a device-independent, interactive experience, TouchPoint utilises data (real-time) from Eclipse’s core Proclaim Case and Practice Management system. TouchPoint is an “always on, always visible” solution. From contact management and targeted cross-selling, through to […]
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Time for a Campaign for Real SaaS?
From time-to-time the legal IT industry hits a tipping point when almost overnight a new paradigm sweeps into the market and permanently disrupts the previous status quo. One of the best known examples was in the mid-to-late 1990s when the industry standard of green-screen Unix systems was challenged by the rise of Microsoft Windows and […]
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Implementing a hosted practice management system
More than 2,200 UK legal practices and ABSs now use a hosted practice management system (PMS) with their system and data held (hosted) in a secure, remote location, accessed via the internet, in preference to keeping servers and software on-premise in their own offices. That is roughly 20 per cent of all law firms and […]
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DropBox – a lawyer’s perspective
For anyone who hasn’t come across DropBox, the strapline on their site is as good an introduction as any: “Your stuff, anywhere.” In (slightly) more technical terms, DropBox is a cloud-based storage service which maintains a copy of one of more folders on your computer. The clever part is that it also ensures that the […]
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The best of both – bricks and mortar and virtual
The coming of the much-vaunted information age, improvements in digital and internet technology, and the increasing requirement for law firms to diversify and innovate over the last ten years has led to a series of interesting experiments in business models for lawyers. Law firms (as demonstrated by the success of such firms as Excello Law, […]
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Google Drive and Chromebook
Much has been written about the pros and cons of working in “the cloud”. Even in this Newsletter, if you search under “cloud computing” you will find 26 articles, written over several years! Just to re-cap, the essential concept is that data is stored in an online location which is accessible from an internet-connected device, […]
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Every silver lining has a cloud
In the last issue, I started looking at the issues of cloud computing and some of the data protection issues. This article continues that analysis. The Article 29 Working Party On 1 July 2012, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party adopted an Opinion (05/2012) on Cloud Computing, in which it analysed all relevant issues for […]
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Don’t let the hype cloud your judgment
I can remember the days when computer storage meant a stack of punched cards and disk drives were measured in kilobytes rather than petabytes; when offsite storage meant the boot of the office manager’s car. I am not very old. Now, even the smallest law firm uses computers and it is possible to run a […]
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Legal IT Inside(r)
We’re pleased to welcome on board as a regular contributor Charles Christian of Legal IT Insider. Charles has been writing about legal IT since about the time it was invented and we’re sure his experience and insights will be welcomed and eagerly consumed. He will be contributing with each online issue – view his archive.
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Cloud technology platforms – it’s a legal matter
Delia Venables, Nick Holmes and I go back a long way (remember the old Law Society LOMAT guides Delia, or Computers for Lawyers from Longmans, Nick?) so it’s a great pleasure to be invited to write something for the online version of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. By way of background, at about the same […]
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Practice management systems in the cloud (2)
In the last issue, we provided contributions from DPS, Eclipse, Iris, LawCloud and LexisNexis. Here we continue with four more key suppliers. Linetime are a leading supplier of practice, case and matter management systems with 30 years experience of the legal sector. Clients range from mid tier firms through to top 50 practices. Years of […]
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Practice management systems in the cloud
The phrase “in the cloud” has only been in common use for two or three years. Previously, phrases like “hosted systems”, “outsourced systems” and “software as a service” (SaaS) were used instead, and meant much the same thing, but the take-up of such systems was rather slow. Now, nearly all the major suppliers of legal […]
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