A market leader
GhostConvey - After more than 26 years of business, GhostConvey remains the most cost effective and wide ranging conveyancing solution in the South African market.
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Citation index
SAFLII (the Southern African Legal Information Institute) has launched LawCite, a free online legal citator service.
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Boot
The "Assistant-at-Law" identifies the five biggest wasters of law firm time and resources.
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Demise of lawyers
In his latest book, Richard Susskind has predicted the demise of lawyers in IT-led future.
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Legal Technology Insider – July 2007
The Legal Technology Insider newsletter has just come out.
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Legal Technology Insider
The Legal Technology Insider newsletter has been described by The Times newspaper as "the definitive online resource for the latest news about legal technology."
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The best and the worst
Law firm websites range from the excellent to the bizarre and the downright awful.
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Staff ratios and IT
"Decreasing your staffing ratios is simple, but is it best?" asks Seth Rowland.
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Dennis predicts for 2006
USA - Dennis Kennedy has been predicting for years, and at the start of 2006 he continues this activity.
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Virtual caution
A Note of Virtual Caution: Technology's advantages have a cost, writes Ed Poll in the September issue of Law Practice Today.
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Super conveyance
Christian Beck looks at some recent advancements in conveyancing software and at what will be setting the future pace.
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Homeowners want SMS updates
Homeowners in England want the technology.
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IT and the Law
IT and the Law enjoy an uneasy partnership according to Tony Williams.
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Dennis Kennedy predicts
In Legal Technology Predictions for 2005: Color My World, Dennis Kennedy does some crystal ball gazing.
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Strategies for law firms
In Strategies for law firms: The use of technology and technology platforms, Sean Bosse maintains that law firms will succeed once they understand and apply the benefits of technology to their business.
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Don't leave it to the end
Partners should be actively involved in the software procurement process from the start.
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Spyware
 If you think you don't have spyware on your network, you're probably wrong, Chris Hayes investigates this aspect of the Internet.
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Tesco to sell legal services
Tesco has just launched its Legal Store thereby adding legal services to its range of consumer products.
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Andrew Craig Conveyancing
"Solicitors are often perceived as stuffy and old fashioned. Not so at Andrew Craig Conveyancing."
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Propeller heads and lawyers
UK lawyers are arrogant, ignorant and they still don't understand IT - and those are the politer things said about them!
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Throwing money away
In Seven Easy Ways for Law Firms to Throw Away Money on Technology, in Law Practice Today, Dennis Kennedy contemplates the ease with which firms waste technology expenditure.
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Virulent Mydoom virus is foul
Mydoom, a new computer virus spreading by e-mail, is breaking records for new infections and fouling up networks. It generated more than 100 million infected e-mails in its first 36 hours.
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Plug pulled on secure e-mail project
The Law Society of Scotland has decided to pull the plug on its Lawseal secure e-mail project.
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Utility computing
Will the provision of IT services eventually be as easy as obtaining water or electricity, where the flick of a switch or the turn of a tap provides as much of the resource as is required?
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E-mail usage guidelines
A Spam Summit was held in Sandton on 22 October. A web site with useful links and documents is the result.
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Using technology to remain competitive
In this article legal technology consultant Carol Schlein lists basic guidelines every law firm, regardless of size, should follow to remain competitive with and even get a leg up on the rest of the legal profession.
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Virtual solicitors' chambers - the future now?
 The smaller legal firm has very real and immediate problems facing it. These include rising overheads and an inability to afford the real cost of technology, including the purchase price, training, support and replacement. Time spent on administration as against fee earning is also high.
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Linux for law firms?
 Could it be curtains for Windows? In Linux for Law Firms: Is the Penguin an Emperor or a Turkey on the inpractice website, Dominic Watson gives an excellent overview of what the state of play regarding Linux is and its use in the legal profession.
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WinXfer Plus
 WinXfer Plus is a useful bulk search tool for property transfers. It is used by amongst others financial institutions, mortgage originators and estate agencies to retrieve information from the deeds office about South African property sales.
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Surviving the e-mail onslaught
E-mail is becoming more widely used and vital to the practice of law - how one can use it more effectively and efficiently is the subject of an article by Dan Pinnington on the Law PracticeToday web site.
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Lawyers really do not like technology
A new survey by Digital Message in the UK has found that although 99% of lawyers surveyed use PCs, nearly three quarters of them admit they don't enjoy learning new software. A large percentage of lawyers also have only a basic grasp of common packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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What is a digital lawyer?
The phrase "The Digital Lawyer" was first coined by Professor M. Ethan Katsh in a series of articles and his book, Law in a Digital World. What does it mean?
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Move to technology
UK - Timothy Hill writes that conveyancing must move toward technological change… or else.
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The future
Build your own future, says Professor Richard Susskind to the legal profession.
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"Voodoo" words
What "voodoo" words in your client newsletter will trigger spam filters?
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Inbox tyranny
Lizelle Kilbourn gives us twelve tips to allow us to free up some time away from the Inbox.
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Legal Technology Insider – June 2007
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Common mistakes
Learn how to avoid and correct the most common flaws in your firm's web site design.
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IT's not all about costs
Use the internet to attract and keep new clients.
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Technology predictions
Recently Richard Susskind delivered the Society for Computers & Law's annual lecture on the topic of "The Next Ten Years".
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Next step forward
UK - The legal IT market is maturing as firms slow down in their race to invest in IT.
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Tech @ 10
A look back at the last decade's winners and losers in the battle for lawyers' hearts, minds and technology dollars.
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Always on
The benefits of broadband internet access Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) for law firms are many and varied, and are worth considering.
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Why Acrobat?
Lawyers process information. Today, most of that information exists on paper and in digital format. Adobe Acrobat™ bridges the divide.
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E-mail tops
It is official: lawyers now like e-mail more than the telephone, but they prefer both forms of remote communication to a face-to-face meeting.
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Take a stand
Renata Saayman writing in this month's De Rebus, calls on conveyancers to take a stand on IT systems.
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Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery for small and medium firms is eminently worthy of one's attention, according to disasterrecoveryworld.com.
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Conveyancers set legal IT pace
 Conveyancers are at the forefront of legal IT use and adopting the latest technologies.
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Use the technology
David Kamu opines that given the advancement in technology such as the availability of email, word processors and document assembly tools that enhance productivity, the lawyers' charging system should change.
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New look Government online front page
 The Batho Pele Gateway portal is now a useful single-entry point to both government information and government services.
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The next big boom
A fascinating picture is beginning to emerge of the trends in Internet growth, electronic banking and e-commerce. Well-known local commentator Arthur Goldstuck pulls together the threads of various research projects.
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Home buyers' demands
Estate Angels makes it clear that consumers now demand extra services alongside property details when they use the Internet to move home.
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2004 Legal Technology trends - 2: Do we stand on the threshold of the next Legal Killer App?
In this, the second segment of a two part article, well known writer and speaker Dennis Kennedy continues with his legal technology predictions for 2004.
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2004 Legal Technology trends - 1: Do we stand on the threshold of the next Legal Killer App?
In this, the first segment of a two-part article, well known writer and speaker, Dennis Kennedy, sets forth his legal technology predictions for 2004.
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New Year Legal Tech Resolutions
As we ease into the new year with shattered resolutions blighting our lives, Inpractice has come up with some more for us to consider.
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TechnoLawyer.com: Why document management?
In this article from TechnoLawyer.com, legal technology consultant John Heckman discusses the basic functionality of document management systems, including a checklist of features to help you decide which ones are essential to your firm.
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Monitors
Buying a good monitor can be confusing, what with terms like "dot pitch" and "bezels". This article, by Rhoda Alexander of Stanford University, should go a long way to putting you in the picture.
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Virus/worm update
During the last week two insidious viruses have blighted the business world, causing much irritation, damage and embarrassment all round. These are the W32/Sobig.f@MM and W32.Blaster high-risk worms (a worm is a variant of a virus).
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Sonnenschein case study
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP is a United States Law firm with over 1600 PC users, including 600 attorneys. This Case Study documents their implementation of GhostFill Document Assembly and Document Management software during 2003.
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Solicitors involvement in e-business
 A survey by the Law Society of England and Wales into the extent and nature of solicitors' use of information and communication technologies has revealed that their reluctance to use computers is holding back universal desktop PC access at small and mid-sized law firms. More...
Horrors of bad web design
Your firm's website can harm your reputation. Attorney and web designer Peter Boyd identifies 17 of the horrors your firm should avoid to achieve the quality of a professional website.
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Online strategies for smaller law firms
This is a must-read white paper by Charles Christian, which appears on the Legal Technology Insider website. He provides a concise overview of developments in the online world and then comes up with ideas and practical advice to help firms determine their Internet and online legal business strategies.
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Legal websites in South Africa
 Emerging technologies are making the legal marketplace more competitive in South Africa, yet lawyers continue to deliver traditional methods of service. Why?
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Designing an effective internet strategy for law firms
New models of service delivery will lead to overall improvement in service value and might also create new revenue streams for law firms, according to an article published on the Singaporean Law Gazette site.
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