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Law Firm Fosters Collaboration and Lowers Costs With Integrated Tools Investment

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld needed a new approach to its technology environment. The law firm wanted to improve organizational control of its IT assets, along with the business processes and the technology solutions that supported them. Akin Gump decided to embrace an integrated environment made up of Microsoft...

Tags: Fosters Inc., Investment, Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Portals, Litigation, Web Technology, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Internet, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-08-13

Law Firm Ensures Mission-Critical Communication With Unified Messaging

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm that manages business-related legal issues. With more than 2,000 personnel, it places significant emphasis on technology and teamwork in an effort to respond quickly and effectively to its clients' needs. "Communication is mission critical," asserts the Chief Information Officer at Winston...

Tags: Unified Messaging, Microsoft Exchange Server, Law Firm, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Groupware, VOIP, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-06-01

Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer

Wow. Talk about revenge. The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg anakata has devised an ingeniously evil plan to get back at the law firm that helped deliver the verdict again TPB. According to the Blog Pirate: The plan can be...

Tags: Asset, Payment, Law Firm, Attack, Litigation, Internet, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Law Firm's CIO Keeps e-Mail Service High While Trimming Servers by 85 Percent

As Chief Information Officer of Dinsmore & Shohl, a Cincinnati, Ohio, law firm, Juanene Wong has to deliver unfailing e-mail service to 400 attorneys while keeping operating costs in check. This became increasingly difficult as the firm accumulated 14 messaging servers in 10 locations. Wong turned to Windows Server 2008...

Tags: Law Firm, E-mail, Litigation, Servers, Online Communications, Business Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2009-04-06

Top Global Law Firm Implements Flexible CRM Platform to Enhance Client Service

Global law firm Reed Smith decided to take its client service delivery to the next level by implementing a Customer Relationship Management CRM system. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Client Profiles, the firm is implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM tailored to its business processes and practices. The flexible platform allows...

Tags: Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Litigation, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-02-13

Law Firm COO and CFO Virtual Roundtable: Leveraging Technology to Address Today's Challenges

Law firm executives have expressed an interest in improving service delivery operations; improving "The experience" they offer their clients; and better managing their talent and intellectual capital. Law Firm executives have also shared an interest to improve their insight into parts of the business to make better investment decisions and...

Tags: Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations

Webcasts 2008-11-25

Help this guy: saas, cloud, the whole shebang

During the week I received an email from a colleague who runs a tiny lawyering business. In many ways his challenges are no different to those of the large enterprise. Right now it is difficult to suggest a really simple solution that meets all his needs but it should be...

Tags: Phone, Law Firm, Intuit QuickBooks, E-mail, Litigation, Online Communications, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Psystar retains Apple-beating law firm

Court documents filed yesterday show that Mac-clone company Psystar has retained a Californian law firm which has tangled with Apple before - and won. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Law Firm, Apple Inc., Burst.com Inc., Psystar, Litigation, Business Operations, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Law Firm Wins More Uptime and Security With Windows Vista

Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky DPK had two main technology issues it needed to address: reliability and security. Computer and network unreliability translated into lost efficiency. Lack of robust computer access for remote users dramatically affected productivity as well. When it came to security, the firm was always seeking ways to...

Tags: Security, Network, Law Firm, Microsoft Windows Vista, Uptime, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Litigation, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-06-01

Large West Coast Law Firm Uses Biscom Delivery Server to Ensure Client Privacy and Save on Courier Costs

One of the largest law firms in the United States with more than 500 attorneys and nearly 50 offices in major metropolitan areas was primarily focused on ensuring privacy protection of confidential client information. Because the firm has so many offices across the United States, their challenge was even greater...

Tags: Law Firm, Privacy, Server, Attorney, Biscom, Litigation, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-03-28

Legally Overweight?: Optimising a Law Firm

Carrying excess paper weight is debilitating for any company - whatever its core business - but it remains a particular problem for many of the UK's law firms. This need not be the case. Embracing a fitter future will require a great deal of planning, expertise and resource. However they...

Tags: Law Firm, NewField IT, Litigation, Business Operations

White papers 2008-03-11

Open+source+gains+business+credibility

Open+source+gains+business+credibilityWell...Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the guy you have issues with with a law firm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they seem hardly more likely to need anything other than what Office/Exchange can give them in a somewhat turnkey manner.Not that there's not better solutions out there,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Operating systems, ROI/TCO, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., open source, law firm

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

U.K. Law Firm Improves Client Relationships With Customer Management Tool

Leading United Kingdom law firm asb law wanted to better manage and strengthen client relationships, drive profits, and create a single source of data for its business. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Aspective, the company chose Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 because it was easy to use, fast to adopt,...

Tags: Law Firm, Client Relationship, U.K., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Litigation, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-02-01

Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR

One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was increasingly complicated to manage. So the customer looked into storage solutions that would allow them to...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Law Firm, 3PARData Inc., NetApp, Storage, Litigation, Hardware, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-02-01

Award Winning Law Firm Makes a Case for WinScribe

As the largest law firm in the South Island and one of the top 10 nationwide, Anderson Lloyd prides itself on an anywhere, anytime approach to its client relationships while also being able to deliver the same flexibility in its working environment for staff. With 140 staff across 3 offices...

Tags: Law Firm, WinScribe, Litigation, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-12-12

Improve Mass Mailing Techniques at Your Law Firm

E-mail, in many respects, has replaced written correspondence as the preferred medium of communication in the legal community. Even so, mass mailings continue to offer one of the best ways for law firms to keep in touch with large numbers of clients on a regular basis. Paralegals, acting on behalf...

Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Communications, Law Firm, Litigation, Marketing, Technique

White papers 2007-12-01

Google Case Study: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

According to The National Law Journal, the fledgling law firm Robert S. Strauss and Richard A. Gump founded in 1945 is now the 25th largest law firm in the United States, and Practical Law Company ranks the company among the Global 50 firms. Akin Gump employees relied on the firm's...

Tags: Google Inc., Law Firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Intranet Site, Intranet, Litigation, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-10-06

Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use

Over at Above The Law, David Lat provides irreverent coverage of the insular world of law firms and the judiciary. Today he posted a song produced by the Nixon Peabody law firm, forwarded by an unidentified tipster, that belongs in the bad business music hall of fame. ...

Tags: Song, Law Firm, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Blogger, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-25

The AMD Opteron Processor Helps a Busy Midwestern U.S. Law Firm Stay Connected and Prepare for the Future

For Metcalf, Kaspari, Howard, Engdahl & Lazarus, P.A., a seven-employee law firm in Minneapolis, Minn., technology was the last thing in which the company wanted to invest. It suffered that PC-based document storage and peer-to-peer networking, suffered from limited access and frequent lost connections. Also, the existing system cost the...

Tags: Law Firm, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Litigation, Processors, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2007-06-25

Tech Truth - Time is Money: OCR Enhances Productivity for Law Firms -- Large and Small

For most law firms, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all the work done and shuffling paper eats up time like nothing else. The average legal practice is buried under an avalanche of paper. Finding the right paperwork still requires a human being to dig through...

Tags: Law Firm, Optical Character Recognition, ABBYY USA, Litigation, Business Operations

White papers 2007-06-14