A piece on Gerry Kenney, the general counsel of NEC Corp. of America, explains how his law department handles litigation holds (See my post of Aug. 27, 2008: litigation hold notices with 6 references.). Once they identify custodians who control data that must be preserved, the legal department sends them…
Roaming the aisles at LegalTech West, I noticed a new participant, Codean. It says that its software, Visualizer, “automatically analyzes legal documents for defined terms without user intervention to generate a live, hyperlinked version of the document.” The software finds, portrays, and analyzes defined terms. It would help lawyers quickly…
My friend Roy Russell, a principal of Ascertus,a leading legal-technology consultant based in the UK, passed on to me some details about a matter management system and two corporate secretarial packages. I am not personally familiar with the software on offer but some readers will appreciate knowing about them. Effacts…
A comment by a consultant in InsideCounsel, June 2010 at 56, brought home a truth about matter management and e-billing systems: “The cost to change systems is extraordinary.” The cost to license a new system represents only a part of the investment. If the pain were only pennies, even lots…
I was glad to have an opportunity at the SuperConference to collect information from three providers of software: Contract Express, Emptoris, and Selectica. At a high level I came to appreciate better that contract management should mean much more than a database where employees can locate copies of executed contracts…
“The biggest impact of technology is not on information management, it’s on people management, it’s on relationship management, it’s on process management, it’s on systems management” (emphasis in original). The speaker is Michael Schrage, of the MIT Center for Digital Business, in an interview by MIT Sloan Mgt. Rev., Spring…
An article lists 20 “companies using document assembly tools: Amazon, BBC, Cadence, Catlin Group, Cisco, Credit Suisse, Dow Jones, EADS, Ford, GE, Johnson & Johnson, McAfee, Microsoft, Munich Re, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, Telstra, Wespac (and no doubt others).” Aside from the size of these…
One of the speakers at Mitratech’s upcoming Interact Conference,is Libby Troughton, Senior Manager, Legal IT, at The Home Depot. Since the conference doesn’t take place until May 16-19, my observations are based on Troughton’s bio in the program materials. A “Troughton directed a multi-year, multi-million dollar project for the custom…
An interesting tool for legal departments came to my attention on Charles Christian’s online American Legal Technology Insider, March 2010. “Baseline Solutions has launched a new legal document review tool called Baseline. Through a series of customizable ‘Playbooks,’ the system automatically inserts omitted language and deletes undesirable text from 3rd…
A good example of converting formerly bespoke and expensive drafting into a document assembly-type process appears in Met. Corp. Counsel, Feb. 2010 at 7. General counsel should take note of this general approach. Latham & Watkins has developed a program called Capture to assist with massive outsourcing contracts and RFPs,…