Category: Legal

Apr 25 2006

Legal issues: e-tendering

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Legal
25 April 2006

Further to my 7 April post regarding legal advice on extranets, I came across another useful article I missed recently – coincidentally, by Anthony Lee’s Fladgate Fielder colleague Gillian Birkby, but this time in "Building" magazine and covering e-tendering and the RICS e-tendering guidance note (see my 26 November 2005 post): Wired up was published …

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Mar 20 2006

Catching up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Legal, Marketing, People issues
20 March 2006

What only one update in a week? What have I been up to since I got back from the Boston conference? On Tuesday, I met up with an old PR friend – internal communications consultant (and fellow cyclist) Liam Fitzpatrick (Working Communication) – and then with Peter Goodwin of the PIX Protocol – hoping to …

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Feb 23 2006

The email argument (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, People issues
23 February 2006

Further to my discussion of the email challenge in Monday’s post, I read Silicon.com’s leader, Living with info overload, yesterday with interest. It says: "the issue is not only how to monitor digital communications … but also how to search and archive the millions of emails we send and documents we create each day," before …

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Feb 20 2006

ISO27001 certification

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 February 2006

Soon after my earlier post "The perils of vendor questionnaires", I started updating BIW’s website in connection with the issue of compliance with international standards (I link the two items as standards compliance frequently features in vendor questionnaires). Updates were necessary as British Standard BS7799 Part 2 was superceded last October by a new global …

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Jan 04 2006

“Extranets” or “client workspaces”?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, SaaS, Vendors
4 January 2006

Beyond the architecture, engineering and construction industry, the legal profession was another field which took to ‘extranets’ in a big way. A Legal Technology News article suggests that the term may have morphed: into "client workspaces". The term may have evolved in the legal world, but I can’t see us shifting towards such a term …

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Dec 13 2005

Buzzsaw: second-most widely used ASP?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
13 December 2005

At AECnews.com, Randall Newton offers a Reporter’s Notebook: A Day at the Virtual Builders Roundtable, a US event organised by practitioners for practitioners. From his notes, two items stood out to me. First: "The general consensus regarding FTP (File Transfer Protocol) as a tool for collaboration seems to be, if you still have FTP hanging …

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Dec 01 2005

Why do insurers overlook the advantages of extranets?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, Marketing, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
1 December 2005

Reading Silicon.com today, I was struck by a leader article: Insurers must account for disaster recovery, which argues that insurers fail to reward those businesses which take a responsible attitude to data back-up and security. Apparently, when it comes to insuring businesses with multimillion-pound liabilities, insurers often pay little or no regard to where and …

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Sep 26 2005

Service level agreements

By Paul Wilkinson in Legal
26 September 2005

Look around for a conservative, risk-averse profession – other than construction – and you might think about the legal world. I spoke about the construction industry’s use of project extranets at last year’s Legal IT Directors Forum at Gleneagles, and heard how some UK law firms were already embracing such technologies. I will be keeping …

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Sep 19 2005

Information management policies

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal
19 September 2005

Nearly half of UK-based businesses do not have a document and information management strategy despite the explosion in volumes of corporate data being generated and the new pressures imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley, etc, according to the latest research quoted by infoconomy.com A survey of IT professionals found that although awareness of the importance of effective information …