Prosperoware has moved quickly to get its platforms certified for WorkSite 9, which was just released in December.  WorkSite 9 is a next-generation private cloud computing platform that provides new capabilities for mobile support and security. All WorkSite 9 features are supported in Unicode,  which not only provides the ability to handle metadata in multiple languages but also to handle dialogues in multiple languages based on the locale that Windows is set to.

In most law firms today, it’s the risk management team or general counsel who decides what level of confidentiality is called for on a particular matter. That’s simply the wrong way to go about it because they are looking at a matter from the 30,000-foot level. Centralized administration of confidentially is doomed to failure In the era of the electronic file, and the failure can be costly.

After reading the Above and Beyond KM posts on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA), I decided to throw my 2 cents into the discussion. A basic tenant of accounting is that if you simply lower your price without improving your margin (e.g. reduce the cost to deliver the service) or increasing the units that you sell, your profits will go down. In the billable hour model, associates simply had their billable hour quota raised or more associates added, but in moving to AFA, the strategy must change. 

We unveiled Zone Webtop today and find the timing of our announcement to be more than apropos. Our new offering, Zone Webtop, delivers UNIFIED access to the systems law firms use for email and matter-specific electronic files through a browser window: note the emphasis on UNIFIED. It’s been optimized for the iPad among other devices and, to our delight, becomes available not long after Apple began shipping the iPad II to 8 million hungry tablet lovers.