New columnist, news from Interwoven, Bighand, and SOSconnect, and legal IT vacancies

"Legal IT Professionals" proudly announces a new columnist: Fred Yeomans

We are very proud to announce our new columnists: Fred Yeomans. With almost a quarter century of IT experience, Fred is the go-to guy when it comes to Portal Technology Solutions (specifically SharePoint) and increasing information worker productivity. He is a guru when it comes to reconciling technological advancement with business need. "In this industry," Fred says, "innovation is a term which is thrown around quite freely by technologists. But technological advancement is not innovation until it brings increased value. Until then, it is just technology in search of a purpose." Read more...

Interwoven Announces Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Autonomy
Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), a global leader in content management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software, for $16.20 in cash per share for a total transaction value of approximately $775 million. Read more...

Hooper & Wollen go live with SOS Connect
Leading South West law firm Hooper & Wollen has gone live with SOS Connect after successfully migrating from its previous IRIS Mountain system. SOS Connect now provides practice management, generic matter management and case management workflow to 100-users at offices in Torquay, Paignton and Dartmouth. Read more...

JST Lawyers improves document turnaround 200% and makes substantial cost savings via BigHand digital dictation
BigHand, the leading digital dictation vendor for the legal community, has today announced that Liverpool law firm JST Lawyers has reported significant return on investment within just 10 months of implementing the BigHand digital dictation workflow system. The project has also included use of BigHand’s award-winning BlackBerry Edition for remote dictation. Read more...

More legal IT news headlines

• Video Marketing Tips for Lawyers: No. 2
• What's Old Is New in Web Site Protection
• The Supreme Court on Twitter?
• Blogs Make a Name for Lawyers, Generate Business
• LawSoft's got the X factor
• Avanquest listened to Text Message Server customers & new release V7 includes requested features

Check our news section for the details.

Legal IT vacancies

Today we added the following two legal IT vacancies:

• Support Analyst 1st 2nd Line (UK, Twyford)
• SQL DBA (UK, Bournemouth)

See our vacancy section for the details.