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DataCert Inc. has enhanced
Guide, its business rules engine.
The software automates the enforcement of corporate law department billing guidelines for
electronic invoicing. It identifies and automatically changes
non-compliant charges.
See page 14
Satori Group Inc. has updated
its Legal-Ease business per-forance software. It adds Legal-Ease for Reporting and Legal-Ease for Matter Planning, supplementing its bud geting, planning, profitability, compensation, and dashboard modules.
See page 20
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PRESIDENT’S CORNER
MARKETING TECHNOLOGY
Two New
Amicus Packages
Bang Your Drum
Ron Collins
PRESIDENT, GAVEL & GOWN SOFTWARE INC.
Toronto’s Gavel & Gown Software Inc. ( www.amicus
attorney.com) has launched two new software packages:
Amicus Accounting and Amicus Small Firm.
The accounting software offers time, billing, and
accounting tools. Users can track time and expenses, generate bills and checks, and manage receivables and
payables. It has trust accounting, general ledger, financial
reporting, and customizable billing templates. The small-firm program combines practice management and
accounting tools, and helps “lawyers spend more time
practicing law and less time dealing with other functions
of running a small business,” says president Ron Collins.
“With solo practitioners and small firms, sometimes the
lawyer is also the bookeeper and marketing person.”
Reader Response no. 350.
IBy Micah Buchdahl
t started the traditional, old-fashioned way.
On August 14, 2006, a senior partner reads an
article and gives it to an associate in her
practice group.
“Look at what this young associate did for
his firm,” said the partner, passing along an
issue of IP Law & Business (a sibling publication
of LTN) that highlighted a successful intellectual property law blog, Dennis Crouch’s Patently-O ( www.patently-o.com).
The associate, who had never visited a blog
site, follows up — and also gets the message:
“You, too, can do something to market our
practice.”
The partner is Josy Ingersoll, who with section leader John Shaw, runs the intellectual
property law practice at Young Conaway
Stargatt & Taylor ( www.youngconaway.com)
in Wilmington, Del. With about 100 attorneys,
the firm operates national practices that include bankruptcy, corporate law and intellectual property litigation.
The associate is Karen Keller. “To be honest, I
was not 100 percent sure what a blog was, but I
checked it out,” said Keller. She took one look
at Patently-o.com, and immediately understood why it was a useful tool to help legal professionals keep up with the federal circuit at the
appellate level. “It occurred to me that our
practice could offer something unique in the
form of a blog as well.”
RESOURCES
See Buchdahl page 55
Office Gear
The Fujitsu fi4860C2
VRS scanner has a 500-
page automatic document feeder. It scans 63
pages-per-minute at 200
dots-per-inch. It can
scan up to 10,000 documents per day .
See page 18
Lenovo’s latest
ThinkPad series X, T,
Z, and R , encrypts
users’ hard drive content. It has 802.11n
wireless connectivity
and Intel’s Core 2
Duo processor.
See page 18
