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Squire Sanders Hammonds signs up Pinsents partner as outsourcing and procurement chief

Squire Sanders Hammonds has recruited a partner from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing and procurement group. Garfield Smith joined the firm on 1 October from Pinsents, where he had been a partner for four years and headed the financial services outsourcing practice.
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Hasta la vista baby – will technology lead to the termination of the legal profession?

Later this week I'm running a session for a group of leading technology lawyers which will explore the future of the profession. Withington & Co's new M&A lawyer was a force to be reckoned with Why I think this will be particularly interesting topic for this group is that I believe technology will be the single biggest driver of change for the legal sector in the long term.
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Technology toy box - top gadgets for general counsel

What treasures do general counsel keep in their technology toy chests? Law Technology News asked 10 GCs – most in tech-related industries such as robotics, games, biotech, digital media, social networking, consumer electronics and software security – to let us take a peek...
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The globe trotters - what international institutions taught an Aussie banking giant

"The idea first came about from the relationship the bank has with IBM, which provides significant IT and system support to us. In the course of setting up things with them we had a discussion with their general counsel about trying to get a better understanding of how their legal function operates and it went from there," Justin Moses explains. Moses, corporate counsel and general manager of the legal product and distribution department at the Australian banking group Westpac, is referring to an innovative series of what the company calls "benchmarking study tours" it has carried out in recent years. The bank's legal team has been visiting international companies in the US and UK to learn from other in-house counsel how they conduct their legal counsel functions and what ideas and structures the banking group can replicate back in Australia and New Zealand.
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The i in team - current IT trends at US firms

After years of barely registering a pulse on The American Lawyer's annual associate technology survey, New York's Proskauer Rose jumped 47 spots in this year's rankings to land in 26th place. What happened? The firm attributes the spike to its new technology programme, implemented in April, which lets lawyers choose between a laptop computer or a combination of a desktop and an iPad. More than 600 of the firm's 700 lawyers have opted for the latter. The iPad "is a very versatile device, and our lawyers are using it in all kinds of ways," says Steven Kayman, a senior litigation partner at Proskauer and head of the firm's technology committee.
6 minute read

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Gibson Dunn, Slaughters lead firms on HP's £7bn Autonomy takeover

Gibson Dunn and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on Hewlett-Packard's (HP) £7.1bn takeover bid for Britain's largest software company Autonomy, in a deal which could become the largest ever in the history of the European IT sector.
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The rise of the technophile - why IT teams will have to learn to love personalisation

Since law firms started providing IT systems and services to their employees, those firms have dictated which device would be used. Over the decades of in-house IT systems and services, the nature of those devices has changed very little. A large proportion of the static working population have used desktop machines for years – yes, they are smaller, much more powerful and have a much wider range of services, but they remain fundamentally the same. The user gets a screen – flat and much larger, a processing unit – now small and often hidden away, and a keyboard with a mouse.
6 minute read

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How to share nicely - experimenting with crowd sourcing and legal wikis

The last decade has seen the mass adoption of social media and a fierce debate on the value of content. Yet few are grappling with what this really means for the legal profession. Social media is opening up new ways of communicating and is part of a wider change in how the professionals of the future will share their ideas.
5 minute read

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Social issues: law firm IT directors discuss challenges presented by social media

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – there's no escaping the infiltration of social media in the workplace. Legal Week's IT roundtable focused on its use by employees, the data risks involved and how it can be used to a firm's advantage
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Pass it on and track it - how law firms can boost their referrrals

Law firms taking advantage of modern referral management techniques are reaping the rewards of their lawyers' relationships. LexisNexis' Gina Connell explains how to maximise results with minimal effort
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