Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Product Announcement: iMoveMail

Infoware is very excited to announce the release of iMoveMail, an innovative new product for filing and managing Client-related email messages and attachments with Outlook.

Using iMoveMail, attorneys can improve their ability to collaborate on files by centralizing client email correspondence in both directions. When a message in the attorney's personal folder system is closed after reading or sending, iMoveMail will automatically pop-up and present a simple mechanism for filing the message in a shared filing system. [iMoveMail Product Sheet]

Monday, September 12, 2005

Inform Court Form Update

New Ontario Court Forms were released today for Inform Court Form Suite subscribers. Infoware has contacted all clients who require the updates. This version, v6.84, includes the following changes that are effective immediately:

New Forms:

  • Motions Data Form that is required to be filed with Motions

  • Trial Data Form that is required to accompany all Trial and Pre-Trial material in St. Catherines and Hamilton

  • Confirmation of Pre-Trial Form



Updated Forms:

  • M2: updated comments to read "At any time before 2:00 p.m. 2 days before" instead of "At any time before 2:00 p.m. the day before"

  • 60F: the words "Amount of" added in front of the word "Payment" in the chart, added italics for "Rules of Civil Procedure" in sentence starting Under rule 60.19

  • 60G: updated to resolve incorrect wording in 1st para, replaced "I require a renewal of a notice of garnishment" with "I require a notice of garnishment".

  • 60G.1: updated date month field.

  • Updated city field in Affidavit of Service forms.



For any questions regarding these updates, please contact Infoware.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Think you've had a Bad Day?

A lawyer's failure to operate a fax machine correctly was blamed for the European Commission losing a multi-million-euro court case.

The European Court of First Instance ruled in favour of five German banks which had been fined a total of €100m by the EC. In 2001 they had been found guilty of running a cartel to fix foreign currency exchange rates ahead of the introduction of the euro.

The incident illustrates how a failure to use technology correctly can have massive consequences, but also underlines the dangers of not moving with the times. Had the EC's documents been emailed, then the EC might be a hundred million euros better off.