Following on from an incredibly busy year, the Team at Business Integrity is hitting the road! Kicking of 2012 in style, you’ll be able to find us at lots of events, giving law firms and in-house legal teams ample opportunity to meet the team and find out more about our world leading  automation and contract management solution, ContractExpress.

Here’s where you’ll be able to find us over the next few weeks:

24th January, Paris: EuropeanGC.com Information Governance For Lawyers. This event, the  largest gathering of in-house lawyers in France, is delivered by  EuropeanGC.com and the AFJE . The team at Business Integrity will be delivering a presentation on Global quality control and Managing contract risk, discussing ways in which document automation can help in-house teams manage the risk associated with contracts across large global companies.

24th-25th January, Amsterdam: KM Legal Europe 2012, Europe’s most established knowledge management event for the legal profession, addressing challenges and issues for Knowledge Management. Jeannette Wiers, head of Knowledge management at leading Dutch firm Nauta Dutilh, and long standing user of ContractExpress will be presenting a case study on the firm’s use of Business Integrity’s solution ContractExpress.

30th January – 2nd February,  New York:  At this year’s LegalTech you’ll  find the Business Integrity team at  booth 324/326 demonstrating the power of the World’s leading document assembly solution and expertly crafted content.  To impress upon attendees just how powerful this concept is we will be offering a 1 year free subscription to the Koncision NDA product. With Koncsion Attorneys can quickly draft NDAs using the language of Ken Adams, published by the ABA and recognized as the guru of contract drafting.

2nd-3rd February, Berlin: For the first time Business Integrity will be attending the annual Unternehmens Juristen Kongress. An exclusive meet for general counsel and heads of legal, attendees will have the opportunity to see just how our leading automation solution ContractExpress, together with our integrated SharePoint system can transform the way in-house legal teams manage the production of contracts across their businesses.

13th February, Berlin: At the first ever European In-House Counsel Day, in-house legal professionals will have the opportunity to view a live demonstration of ContractExpress. Come along and see us at 13.25 in the conference room.

14th-15th February, Berlin: Yet another opportunity for In-House Legal professionals to find out all about ContractExpress at Euroforum’s Unternehmensjuristentage. Come along at 13.25 and view a live product demonstration, and find out how you can change your business processes with ContractExpress.

If you have any questions about any of these events, please don’t hesitate to ask, and we look forward to meeting lots of you on our travels!

Around about this time of year, it has become customary in the world of legal technology to ask ‘What are Richard Susskind’s predictions for the coming year?’

Last year Legal IT Professionals rose to the task, covering Professor Susskind’s predictions in their 10 Minutes with feature. The hot topics for 2011 were

1. Widespread use of the I-Pad and Tablets both in house and within law firms

2. Significant increase in use of the Cloud

3. Outsourcing

4. Social Media

Looking back at the media archives for the past year, all four topics have certainly be widely discussed. From a document automation perspective there has been a lot of interest from lawyers looking to deploy ContractExpress.com; delivering quick and effective document creation both within the firm and direct to their clients via the cloud platform (and, as would be expected, ContractExpress questionnaires can be run on the I-pad too!).

So what does Richard Susskind’s crystal ball show for 2012? Speaking with Ari Kaplan late last month, he outlined what’s in store for the coming year.

The key defining feature of 2012 is going to be what Susskind calls the ‘more for less challenge‘. General Counsel are under increasing pressure to deliver more legal services for less cost. As such they are going to be expect law firms to take a look at how they are working and expect them to deliver more efficient practice. The effect of AFA’s is time limited, and reducing charges just simply isn’t going to cut it. 2012 is all about readdressing the way things work, its about working differently. View you can view the full interview below.

For ContractExpress this is an exciting prospect. ContractExpress has already been a key driver, helping firms and in-house counsel change the way they work. ContractExpress not only enables quick efficient document creation; it has an effect far deeper within the organisation, helping to effect change in the way people work changing legal practice for the better.

2012 The more for less challenge – bring it on!

Last month we sponsored the ACC “Deal or No Deal: Contracts in a box” event. We just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for coming by our table and filling out our contract management and contract automation survey. To date we have collected over 400 responses from senior counsel across the country. If you haven’t filled out our survey yet, please do so online and you will receive a copy of the published article via email.

Survey link: http://2419412.polldaddy.com/s/contract-management-and-automation-survey

We would also like to congratulate the winner of our kindle fire drawing at the event. That’s me on the left next to our lucky winner. You may notice, although I did not win I am smiling as well. That’s because I work for the best document assembly and contract management company on the planet. (probably in the universe). For some serious reading on why ContractExpress is the leading solution for corporate legal departments and law firms alike visit our website here:  http://www.business-integrity.com/solutions/index.html