Thomson Reuters recently surveyed more than 500 legal departments and spoke directly to over 100 legal department leaders and attorneys. Not surprisingly, given the T-R suite of legal software offerings, one area they covered was” vendor-provided” software (at 3). Matter and spend management tools, they found, had been adopted by…
In the July issue of Claims Mgt, at 30, there is an advertisement by Bottomline Technologies. In bold print at the top the ad proclaims “Bottomline is chosen three times more than any other legal spend management vendor.” I know executives at the company and to the extent of my…
This blog has addressed custom software written for a legal department, as well as some of the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches (See my post of June 3, 2009: customized software coded for legal departments with 12 references.). Let’s review the arguments in favor of custom software.…
KIE Square, a consulting firm that specializes in advanced business analytics, has developed a business intelligence application. According to KMWorld, July/Aug. 2012 at 15, the software helps identify shipments likely to violate import regulations on the basis of the importer’s declarations and other paperwork (See my post of Jan. 24,…
Kraig Washburn, the General Counsel of Flexera, spoke at the recent InsideCounsel SuperConference about his department’s use of Salesforce software. His department has about four lawyers and four other staff. In 2011, they handled about 4,000 requests for assistance, among which were about 700 negotiated software agreements. Currently, with…
A former executive of two matter management and legal e-billing companies, Jeff Hodge recently wrote a white paper for Bridgeway, one of the leading providers of both kinds of software. Entitled Legal Spend Management: An International Perspective, it discusses at page 5 the migration of U.S. law departments to Europe…
A former general counsel, John DeGroote, has created Resolution Tree. An online service, it allows law departments to prepare litigation trees as needed for a fixed cost. An ad in Alternatives, March 2012 at 80, brought this to my attention. I have mentioned DeGroote before (See my post of Feb.…
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has made available a contract-drafting tool with four primary features. As described more fully by Robert Ambrogi in LTN Law Tech. News, June 2012 at 36, Contract Advisor has model contracts, with a group of ten to start from. It also has a clause…
A provider of SaaS-based IP management technology, First To File®, launched this month an IP Document Management Survey to gather information from corporations and IP law firms on this genre of software. One question listed eight reasons why a law department might invest in such a system. The survey asks…
Roughly summarized from the research presented in MMS Insights, four MMS packages stand out as having averaged more years in use, more lawyers in their departments, and more external spend under management. A second group of four packages were, generally speaking, less in longevity, less in average numbers of lawyers,…