We are pleased to announce that John Kirk, Lexdata Sydney Production Manager, was conferred the “Lifetime Membership Award” by the Network of In-house Print Professionals Australasia, NIPPA. The award recognises John’s outstanding experience, hard work, dedication and valuable contributions to the field.

Having an MBA and more than 25 years of experience in the Printing Industry, John has worked for prestigious corporations and performed as a technical adviser in numerous printing, copying and document management projects, including the development and implementation of National Training Package qualifications. John is also currently a Director of the ACFIPS Industry Training Advisory Board and a member of the Sector Advisory Committee for Innovation Business Skills Australia.

John was presented with the award as part of the 2011 NIPPA Conference held in Canberra from the 5th to 7th of October.

Once again, we would like to congratulate John on his award and if you want to learn more about NIPPA, please click here

Lexdata is pleased to present a Legal Services Seminar on the topic of Cost Management within the Legal Practice.
Jacqueline Highfield, expert costs consultant from DG Thompson, will address legal cost management experience and strategies. In particular, Jacqueline will provide advice on current legal costing issues and discuss strategies to help reducing costs for legal processes.

There is no charge for this seminar but, pre-booking is essential. To learn more or to register, please go to Legal Seminar.

We are pleased to launch our new website. The new-look site is designed to provide our customers with valuable information about our services, and offers helpful demos and case studies. Through the site, Lexdata will also keep customers updated with latest industry developments. Please take some time to look around, learn a little about us, and get in touch.

Our business is constantly adapting to suit the changing needs of our customers. Recognising the recent growth of electronic document management, Law Image Sydney, Canberra and Perth have changed their name to Lexdata. The specialist information division of the Law Image Group, Lexdata, specialises in innovative electronic services, such as Digitisation, Online Publishing and Applied Legal Technology. Read more about these services here.

Lexdata is proud to announce that we were the recipient of an award at the Reserves Employee Support Awards, held this week. Our business was recognised as a Supportive Employer of Australian Reservists at the ceremony. The awards, presented by the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Senator David Feeney, are designed to formally recognise employers of Reservists for being particularly supportive of Reserve service. At the ceremony, 16 employers in ACT and NSW were recognised. To read more about the Defence Reserves Support click here, or the awards, click here.

“Managing Information Today and Tomorrow” was the theme for the annual Institute for Information Management (IIM) National Conference held in Canberra during 16 – 18 May 2011. This conference, sponsored by Lexdata, was part of Information Awareness Month (IAM) and included several workshops and presentation streams as well as the participation of important national and international speakers to discuss the present and evolution of the Information Management discipline.

Among the participants of the conference, Lexdata run a competition where the prize was a $50 donation to any charity of the winner’s choice. The happy winner was Wayne Finlaison, who donated the prize to the Royal Far West Children’s Hospital in Manly, a charity that provides healthcare services to children who live in rural and remote areas of NSW.

To learn more about IIM please click here

Lexdata is proud to be the Platinum Sponsor of this year's Information Awareness Month (IAM), which was officially launched on Tuesday 3rd of May at the National Library of Australia. This is the second opportunity Lexdata has had to participate in this important event, whose theme for this year is "Information overload: Finding the tree in the digital forest".

Our Corporate Sales Executive, John Cox, spoke at the launch, presenting Lexdata's Digitisation and Publishing Solutions cycle and explaining how we are able to help our clients convert their hard-copy documents into meaningful, searchable information that can be easily integrated into their IT systems and published either internally or externally.

To learn more about Information Awareness Month (IAM), click here .

Lexdata is pleased to welcome Netimpact Online Publishing Pty Ltd to the Law Image| Lexdata Group. Netimpact specialise in professional electronic publishing and knowledge management solutions, and was established in Canberra in 1996. Netimpact has worked with numerous Government departments and private companies and has built a strong reputation in the industries in which it participates.

Netimpact's skill set will benefit our clients as we are able to add to our already extensive suite of services. Our resulting product portfolio shows enhanced expertise across our existing digitisation and document management solutions, but will also now extend to include automated publishing, virtual library delivery and record management solutions.

To learn more about Netimpact click here .

Due to our heritage within the legal sector, Lexdata is naturally drawn to fostering strong relationships with the various law societies around Australia, and we have a particularly strong bond to the ACT Law Society and its affiliated committees such as the Young Lawyers Committee. We recently accepted an invitation to be part of the ACT Law Society's 'Membership Services Directory' and are pleased to say that their members are now able to access a range of exciting and exclusive benefits from Lexdata and other local businesses.

Read more about the ACT Law Society . click here .

We have been working closely with the Young Lawyers Committee in the ACT for some time now and have been constantly impressed by their energy and enthusiasm. They not only provide ongoing educational and development resources and support for lawyers during their first five years of practicing, but they also have a lot of fun - and the 2010 National Golden Gavel finals were not an exception!.

Read more about the awards here .