The Cloud

Is the Surface any good for lawyers? Part 1: First impressions

Posted by on 03/11/2012 at 4:09 pm

… Not since I was a young boy opening the box to a Dragon computer or a BBC Micro (I never had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or a Commodore 64) have I had such anticipation over owning a new computer. My new Microsoft Surface RT was delivered on 31 October. It is a slick looking piece of equipment. The tablet itself [...]

Cloud Computing for Lawyers – Reviewed

Posted by on 18/08/2012 at 12:49 pm

… I have this year attended legal technology conferences in the UK where speakers and delegates were clearly confused about how lawyers should be using the cloud (e.g. LawTech Futures 2012 and Lex2012). For them and other lawyers faced with the brave new world of cloud technology the answer is to buy and read Nicole [...]

Speaking about Cloud Computing for Law Firms

Posted by on 16/02/2012 at 11:23 pm

I have been invited to do a couple of talks about my experiences at my law firm, Inksters, in using cloud computing. First up in Glasgow, on 29 February 2012, is the Denovo Business Intelligence Scottish Legal Conference: Maximise Fee Income using Intelligent Cloud Computing. I will be presenting my practical experience of implementing Denovo’s [...]

A visit to my law firm’s cloud

Posted by on 20/12/2011 at 6:25 pm

… In my last post I looked at when your law firm’s cloud turns dark. I finished that post by stating that the management of the data centre had invited me on a tour of the data centre. This post will look at that visit. George Blair from Denovo Business Intelligence and I had an [...]

When your law firm’s cloud turns dark

Posted by on 03/12/2011 at 8:08 pm

… In September I blogged about my Law Firm in the Cloud as we, at Inksters, moved all of our IT systems into the cloud. At that point I could see many pros and few cons of so doing. One day recently we discovered at Inksters that we had, on the face of it, lost [...]

Law Firm in the Cloud

Posted by on 11/09/2011 at 11:26 pm

… In January I predicted that we would see a greater take up amongst lawyers of cloud computing in 2011. Perhaps this was a self fulfilling prophecy because my own law firm, Inksters Solicitors, has just moved all of our IT systems into the cloud (Law in the Cloud). This includes our e-mail, Word Processing, [...]