This Friday, March 12th, I’ll be presenting at the Legal Marketing Association in Denver, CO with Meredith Williams, Director of Knowledge Management at Baker Donelson and Patrick DiDomenico, Chief Knowledge Officer at Gibbons P.C. in a session titled “Leveraging Knowledge Management to Increase Efficiency and Improve Your Firm’s Bottom Line”.  This is a great topic, and an increasingly common di... (Read full post)

I’m blogging from the ILTA SharePoint event at the Hilton while the LegalTech event continues upstairs.  Attendance was outstanding, I estimate 120-140 in the room.  Bob Daniels, Norm Thomas and Adam Juechter from Microsoft kicked off the event and gave a general overview of SharePoint 2010, with extra focus on the new document management capabilities in 2010 and the potential for it being “the v... (Read full post)

I arrived at LegalTech yesterday afternoon, just in time for the two panel discussions I moderated in the Knowledge Management track.  Before we started I took a quick walk through the exhibit hall and the floor seemed busy, which was encouraging. In the first session I participated in, “Maximizing your KM investments”, I was joined by Jim Tuvell, Director of Knowledge Services at Fox Rothschild... (Read full post)

I am very excited to announce that XMLAW is now part of Thomson Reuters.  We will be aligned with Hubbard One, the premier client development product and services provider.  The combination of Hubbard One and XMLAW brings unmatched capabilities in law firm information management and client development technology and services that serve the broadest spectrum of law firm needs.  As industry lead... (Read full post)

Congratulations to the Reed Smith team!  Reed Smith was named SharePoint Innovator of the Year 2009 at the International Technology Legal Association conference in Washington DC for their outstanding intranet portal.   Reed Smith’s portal is a collaborative workspace that connects more than 3200 people in 26 different countries.  Driven by the Reed Smith project team, which includes Tom Baldw... (Read full post)

This week Inc. magazine announced the 2009 Inc 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America - and XMLAW ranked #701.  Following our BBJ award from last month, needless to say we're very happy with all of the recognition we've received this year!  We are all extremely proud to be honored for our continued growth and success, particularly at a time when the industry is facing unp... (Read full post)

We’re just wrapping up the second day of presentations at ILTA’s SharePoint Symposium in Downers Grove, IL.  Attendance was surprisingly good and it was great to spend time with clients and colleagues.  Presentation content has varied from technical (editing FAST index profile XML files) to non-technical, including what I thought to be a great session on social computing by Mark Beckmann from MSF... (Read full post)

We’re sponsoring the 2nd annual ILTA SharePoint Symposium this week, being held at Microsoft’s Downers Grove offices outside Chicago on Wednesday and Thursday.  Attendance looks great, over 130 ILTA members registered, and we’re excited to participate.  We have two presentations – first on Wednesday when we’re presenting with Tom Baldwin, CKO at Reed Smith, on the topic “Using SharePoint to Bui... (Read full post)

Yesterday we attended the Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work in Boston 2009 Awards breakfast and were very honored to receive our award along with other great companies and honorees.  20 companies were honored in small, medium and large business categories out of more than 380 total, and we came in at #11 in the small category.  Yeah, I know - we always look that, unfortunately.  :) ... (Read full post)

Autonomy iManage announced today their app for the iPhone at the Apple World Developers' Conference in San Fran (thanks to Janders Dean, pointing out the Orange Rag posting).   The online demo looks great, as expected, and the need for mobile access to DM content is real.  Blackberry is still the predominant mobile device in law firms but I've definately seen more iPhones lately.  Having client... (Read full post)