TheKnowList30
TheKnowList30 features the 10 ‘people to know’, 10 ‘best solutions’ & 10 ‘shooting stars’ in Legal IT as decided by you. Any footballer will tell you that the player’s player award is the accolade with most significance. Did you make the list? Will you make the next list? Vote for the next TheKnowList30.
Peter Owen
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?We are a consultancy so there is no set solution strategy for clients. They’re all different!
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Mum’s!
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Billy Connolly.
If you were a car what would it be?
My C Reg Landrover Defender – old and slightly broken but still working fine, reliable, goes anywhere and…a classic!
Simon Kosminsky
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?Yes – we will allow connectivity between these devices and our systems but will rarely supply them directly to our staff.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Scotts in Mayfair.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Mr Big.
If you were a car what would it be? Trabant.
Neil Davison
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?We will go with the Playbook. It has all the security features of a BlackBerry and it leverages the investment – financial and technically – we have already made. I think lawyers will love it as you can now work with documents alongside email, as well as dictate and time record on it.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Sadly, it is a McDonalds just outside Yeovil. Driving back from Cornwall on Easter Monday is not recommended. After 5 hours and only 160 miles on the clock, hunger and desperation sets in.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Sylvester Stallone, as Rambo, with his bow. Enough said.
If you were a car what would it be?
It would have to be the Maserati Quattroporte. Stylish, practical and always thirsty. One of my dream cars.
Julie Berry
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?Yes.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Rhodes 24.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Rene Russo.
If you were a car what would it be?
Mercedes SLK.
Karen Jacks
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?Yes it does. We are rolling out iPads to all Partners – gives another way to work remotely, quickly and easily. Enables fast views of our BI tools.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
The local pub! Called the Village Inn although its not a village….its in Ealing!
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Someone thin(ner), young(er) and very attractive obviously.
If you were a car what would it be?
Something built for comfort not speed…. have just bought a people carrier (it happens to us all) so perhaps that.
Jonathan Smith
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?Yes – currently trialling iPad and eagerly awaiting the Playbook.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Van Zeller – Harrogate
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Me.
If you were a car what would it be?
1967 Ford Mustang “Eleanor”
Janet Day
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?A part – time will tell how serious.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Eight Club – Moorgate.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Helen Mirren – she does charcters well!
If you were a car what would it be?
Either a Lexus hybrid – or a classic Aston Martin – both appeal.
Andrew Powell
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?Starting to, yes, and BES server handling non-BlackBerry devices will help.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
The tree house in the grounds of Alnwick Castle.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Jack Dee.
If you were a car what would it be?
Jensen Interceptor.
Jan Durant
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?The iPad definitely. Not the Playbook until it doesn’t have to be docked to a BlackBerry – seems a bit pointless.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Sheba, for a curry in Brick Lane.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Sigourney Weaver – if she can fight off aliens, those who make unreasonable demands will be a doddle.
If you were a car what would it be?
Anything electric – petrol is SO last year.
Eliza Hedegaard
Does the iPad/Playbook form a serious part of your solution strategy?No.
Where was the last place you went for dinner?
Marine Ices opposite the Roundhouse. Best pizza, pasta and ice cream in London.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Billie Piper or Jennifer Saunders.
If you were a car what would it be?
Aston Martin.
DocsCorp - OCR Solution
DocsCorp is a global leader in productivity software for law firms. Its pdfDocs Suite integrates with leading document management systems to provide seamless PDF, Court Bundling, OCR conversion and document comparison workflows.
Applications must become even more integrated with the other applications and systems on the lawyer’s PC to drive efficiency and productivity— seamless integration with MS Office as well as leading cloud-based and on-premise case and document management systems.
Tikit Legal Office
Tikit Legal Office represents the future of IT provisioning to medium size law firms! This cloud based, fully integrated solution provides firms with Tikit’s market leading products in a ready to roll out format on a monthly per user subscription plan.rekoop
Lawyers rekoop more time: innovative, fun, and simple to use and quite unlike any other software you will have seen. Automatically capture time, enhance decision making, and improve profit, fast.
Tablet computing with native applications will powerfully extend existing systems and transform the mobility and effectiveness of legal professionals. Truly embracing mobile applications will assist with time capture, transform decision making and improve profits.
QlikView
QlikView software helps law firms visualise their data (such as profitability and revenue by matter/partner/lawyer etc.) in a simple, costeffective and user friendly dashboard format, empowering their business decision making.
The future of legal technology will be cluttered around BI analytics tools with user-friendly, real-time interactive interfaces that deal with huge and various data compatible with latest technology (including touch-screen).
Decisiv Search
Decisiv Search combines sophisticated contextual search technology with a simple user interface. It provides highly accurate results, customised to each user and organisation to achieve optimal relevancy in every search.
Recommind sees the need for a new breed of information professional to bridge IT and legal, helping to identify risk and opportunity as electronic information grows at an unstoppable pace.
iA Expense Manager
nQueue Billback provides software-based cost recovery, information accountability and expense management solutions to the legal market and others. Our clients include 7 of the Top 20 law firms in the United Kingdom and 5 of the Top 10 globally.
As clients increase pressure to reduce costs, law firms will increasingly rely on technology to help them automate operations, improve productivity and deliver information to help them increase profitability.
MatterCentre
The MatterCentre product from FWBS provideslegal professionals with a versatile, client & matter centric information management case/workflow, contact management and firmwide reporting; all from within the Microsoft Office suite. The new MatterSphere extension delivers rich anywhere access client and matter functionality for both internal and external clients, using Silverlight & mobile platforms.
A rich client and referrer experience of unified client and matter information, will need to be delivered with anywhere access, to any device.
Document Direct
Reduce overhead and improve profitability by outsourcing to Document Direct who provide a specialist service for the legal profession. In a deadline driven environment Document Direct produce complex technical documents from hard copy or audio by experienced DP Specialists.
Legal technology will give greater flexibility for businesses and the freedom to work remotely. We will become totally reliant upon it so that we can have healthy, happy, balanced lives.
MobileIron
The MobileIron service brings ‘BES-type’ control to ALL smart devices, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Symbian and BlackBerry in one solution via a centralised control centre. Drive self-governance and productivity with no impact on the ‘native experience’ whilst enforcing corporate access-security policies.
Media tablets and smart devices will continue to hold more and more sensitive data; firms should review their whole information security ecosystem to mitigate data-loss. Esselar are the experts to turn to.
Mimecast
Mimecast supplies best practice email services to more than half of the UK’s top 100 law firms, as well as facilitating simple, safe migration to the latest Microsoft email platforms.
Hybrid On-Premise and Cloud is going to take an even bigger hold in Legal IT as firms can selectively outsource services for greater competitive advantage
The future of Legal IT will… “see considerable investment and change. Strategically, IT will become even more important to law firms in driving their ambitions of greater standardisation, globalisation and efficencies.” Legal-IT has the opportunity to influence innovative business processes and drive down cost. Leveraging Leveraging emerging technologies for sustainable social change: Anywhere Client/Matter Centric access integrated with social media, for connecting with fellow professionals and marketing legal services – via mobile touch screen computing. Law Firm ‘product’ = Documents Final recognition of this and implementation of real process efficiencies together with the convergence of DM and Know-How Systems to produce intelligent documents. Tablets finally beat paper, and become the preferred way to review documents. And more Law firms realise emails are insecure and send safedrops instead. Recommind sees the need for a new breed of information professional to bridge IT and legal, helping to identify risk and opportunity as electronic information grows at an unstoppable pace. The future of legal technology should include the provision of single, efficient, user-friendly, integrated toolkits of like the Litéra Launchpad, that manage documents across the entire content lifecycle. The changing regulatory and commercial dynamics in the Global legal marketplace and the potential for costly oversights and mistakes that can expose the firm and/or its clients means that firms are looking for specialist software to speed up business intake whilst ensuring that they manage risk throughout the life-cycle of a client relationship. Frayman Group’s specialist focus means that it is uniquely positioned to serve these needs and is currently expanding operations in the USA and UK to serve the increasing demand. The future is bright but the pressure is greater. New technologies are disturbing – more mobile apps, integration, touch screens, hype, buzzwords. The challenge remains the same – getting your technology strategy right. I believe commercialisation and collaboration is the future of legal technology, which will see utility computing provided by IT departments and consumed by end users, anywhere, on any device, at any time. 
Ben Wightwick
“Top business analyst and future IT Director.” – TORIS
Frank Boening
“Always one to watch, a recent move from Workshare to the next big thing? We’ll see…“ TORIS
cloud services and frameworks wherever possible to increase flexibility at lower cost dramatically increases value and supports imperative change. 
Alister Wyld
Articulate, knowledgeable, not pushy. – A new generation of salesperson?” TORIS
NovaPlex
“PrintPath the latest in a series of ground breaking easy to use and install efficiency tools.” TORIS
OD Consultancy
“Who?? Exactly, but miss out on SafeDrop and Project Fusion and you will kick yourself.” TORIS
Recommind
“Pushing Knowledge Intelligence solutions forward where others stand still.” TORIS
Litera
“If you thought they were just another comparison product – oh how wrong you were – watch this space.” TORIS
Frayman Group
“Frayman Group’s risk management solutions including new business intake, lateral hire intake, conflicts management & clearance, ethical walls, confidentiality management and activity monitoring applications are redefining law firm business intake and risk management with a new holistic approach.” TORIS
Christel Aguila
“Quietly innovating and pushing the technology boundaries.” TORIS
Michael Queenan
“New and inspiring face of the future for legal technology sales.” TORIS
