Thursday's legal IT news update, incl 3 new vacancies

London Law Firm Selects Integrated Business Process Management System from LexisNexis

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions including Practice and Productivity Management solutions, today announced that London law firm Payne Hicks Beach (PHB) Solicitors has chosen to deploy LexisNexis Axxia dna as its web-based, business process management system of choice. This decision will enable the firm to standardise and automate its business processes to significantly increase overall business efficiency. Previously, the firm was using Axxia only as an accounting and time recording system. Read more...


Bird and Bird launches new global web site

Sword ECM, the global integrator of enterprise content management (ECM) and collaboration systems has delivered a new client-facing web site for leading international law firm Bird & Bird.
The site, which supports Bird & Bird’s global online presence, was developed by Sword using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (‘MOSS’) 2007 platform.
Commenting on the firm’s new website Head of IT Services Karen Jacks said: “Replacing our old content management system with the scalable and flexible MOSS technology fits well with our existing use of this platform. It is already providing better support for our lawyers and their colleagues for collaborative projects and also for our financial systems team for knowledge-sharing. Our strategy is to provide a much-enhanced user experience that is, easier to update, more intuitive and with optimum search facilities”. Read more...

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More legal IT news

• Juicing Your BlackBerrys With Tested Apps
• New WSGR Term Sheet Generator - an Innovative Online Service
• Cyber law conference call for papers
• Wikipedia Too Malleable to Be Reliable Evidence
• Imagining Web 2.0 in Your Organization: Thinking Inside the Blog
• Elite User Conference 2009 coming up June 9-11

All the details can be found in our news section.

Legal IT vacancies

Today we added the following three new vacancies:

• Senior Microsoft Engineer (USA, any location)
• Senior DMS consultant (USA, any location)
• Senior Records Management Consultant (USA, any location)

Job descriptions and more information can be found in our vacancy section.