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Legalease: New Bamboo Wins Web Development Contract To Improve
Legalease Directory Service; Web site overhaul will allow businesses to
search for law firms anywhere around the world
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:07072008
Legalease, the world's largest legal referral site, has awarded its
website development to New Bamboo, the specialist in bespoke software
development using Ruby on Rails. The project will involve updating the
site so that businesses can easily access the wealth of information
available on 10,000+ law firms around the World.
The contract value was not disclosed.
Launching in summer 2008, the updated website will allow businesses and
individuals to explore the content of the Legal 500 directories online
and to search for law firms by company name, discipline or country.
The Legal 500 provides extensive editorial coverage of the strengths
and weaknesses of commercial law firms worldwide. It provides thousands
of tables and editorials on which law firms are the best for particular
categories of work in over 100 countries. This ranges from Tax in
Vietnam, Real Property in Paris, Litigation in Wales and Finance in
London.
The web development will combine Ruby on Rails and an Agile project
management methodology. "We selected this approach as we wanted to
complete the web project within 12 weeks. The Agile methodology also
allows us to explore new ideas and features throughout the process. The
New Bamboo team gave us the confidence to try something new, but within
a safe and controlled environment", comments John Pritchard, Chairman
and CEO of Legalease.
Damien Tanner, Co-founder of New Bamboo said, "We are extremely pleased
to be working with Legalease on updating their website. Over the last
12 months, we have seen an increase in the number of organisations
looking for a fresh approach in web development. The feedback from our
customers has been that traditional web development approaches are far
too rigid, limiting innovation and creativity." Tanner adds,
"Traditional development methodologies are prone to problems such as
budget overruns and not meeting expectations. The Agile methodology
involves regular meetings between the development team and all
stakeholders. This process encourages constructive review and
refinement rather than pre-determine what can and can't be done."
The legalease directory service includes the hugely successful Legal
500 series of guides reviews the strengths and strategies of law firms
in over 90 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North and South
America, and the Caribbean. The enhanced features will provide
easy-to-navigate and cross-referenced guides, recommendations and law
firm rankings to enable clients to identify the best law firm for the
job.
Legalease also produces a number of other invaluable reference sources,
including the Legal experts guides to the leading specialist legal
advisers in the UK and Europe; the Lex 100 student guide to the top law
firm employers; the comprehensive Courts & Agency Directory and the Tax
Directors Handbook. All this editorial material is produced by the
Legal 500 team of journalists and researchers and is fully searchable
at Legal500.com.
Notes to editor
About Legalease
Founded in 1987, Legalease is a leader in the provision of legal market
information. As a quality-driven publisher, we offer authoritative and
in-depth analysis and commentary across a broad portfolio of
publications, spanning directories, magazines, journals, textbooks and
online. We aim to be at the forefront of legal publishing, creating
high-quality publications for the elite of the legal profession, and
their clients.
About New Bamboo
New Bamboo Web Development Limited is a specialist in bespoke software
development using Ruby on Rails. Its range of experience covers social
networks, complex e-commerce solutions and process management and
collaboration tools for organisations.
New Bamboo offers a highly skilled technical team that has been
programming with Ruby on Rails since its conception in 2004. The
company uses an Agile methodology which is particularly suited for
complex projects and is based around objective metrics, stakeholder
involvement, feedback, and managed processes.
New Bamboo is privately held and based on London, United Kingdom.
What is Ruby on Rails? It is an innovative framework architected for
rapid development of web applications. Ruby on Rails is the framework
and 'Ruby' is the programming language.
CONTACT: Lena Ahad, Technology PR, for New Bamboo
Tel +44 (0)7908 725 212
e-mail: Lena@technologypr.eu
WWW: http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk
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