Monday's Legal IT news update: nFlow, SOS-Connect, DPS and more, incl 1 new vacancy

New training initiative from nFlow aims to help reduce document production costs for firms
Digital dictation developer nFlow (www.nflow.com) has announced a new workshop training concept for firms wishing to reduce costs by training staff on dictation skills to make sure they are producing text as efficiently as possible. This follows their successful online dictation skills seminar last year and the feedback they have received on their training support website – http://www.dictationskills.com/. nFlow say that focused dictation skills training can provide considerable savings, particularly if a firm outsources typing, by significantly reducing the retyping of documents due to incomprehensible or poor dictation and potentially delivering even higher fee earner to secretary ratios. Read more...

DPS Managing Director invited to chair Profit from IT

Law London 2009 will see the launch of a new conference dedicated to the success of the mid-large law firm. Aimed at CIO's and Partners of law firms, the conference will give direction on legal technology best practice, in particular, planning and applying technology to generate greater margin and add to the bottom line. Read more...




Migration to SOS Connect from Norwell at Druces LLP goes smoothly for 70 users
City of London firm Druces LLP has successfully migrated all 70 staff from its previous Norwell system to SOS Connect. The new software is now live for practice management and generic case workflow across the firm and is providing a modern IT foundation to support the firm’s future growth.
Druces is a medium sized firm with a history of almost 250 years’ servicing a broad range of clients – from high net worth individuals to multi-national corporations across corporate and commercial law, litigation, private client services, charity and property specialties. Read more...

More legal IT news

• Has Windows Workflow got shifting foundations?
• James Robinson Outlines Five Intranet Publishing Models
• Bad Usability Calendar
• E-know.net gives firms an 'easyStart' along the managed service road
• Will Law Firm Technology Budgets Be Decimated in 2009? Discuss.
• The Crisis Goes to Waste as BigLaw Muddles Through

All the details in our news section.

Legal IT vacancy

Today we added the following legal IT vacancy:

• IT Sales Executive (UK, London)

Details in our vacancy section.