At Legal Tech New York, a partner from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe described a global corporate secretarial service the firm developed in tandem with Cisco’s legal department. To comply with a raft of national requirements for the hundreds of companies Cisco maintains in more than a hundred countries, in 2007…
Picture this. The lawyers in a legal department have small cameras attached to their monitors. Their clients or primary outside partners also have cameras. Those unblinking eyes let each of them see the other while they talk, if someone chooses to turn on the cameras. Relatively inexpensive, fairly easy to…
An exhibitor at LegalTech New York, TrialNet,certainly has impressive literature to describe its software. A person at the booth said that among the company’s users are the legal departments of Georgia Pacific, Pro Assurance, and Health Corporation of America (HCA). The brochures emphasize the flexible reporting of the system as…
An article about human cognitive limitations mentions that software can help us cope. Unable to make sense of a swamp of output from, say, a matter management systems, managers can enlist visual analytics. “Defined as the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces, VA combines computer science with…
Two points struck me from findings in ILTA’s 2009 Technology Survey, at 42 of law firms: one about the shared challenges of providing technology to lawyers – inside or outside – and the other about overhead support for IT that legal departments often enjoy free of charge. The law firms…
As more legal departments bring inside the software and expertise to handle e-discovery, general counsel and their IT colleagues may want to consider work-flow management software designed for that task. KM World, Feb. 2010 at 15, mentions three offerings: iFramework from i-Framework, Atlas Suite from PSS Systems, and Fusion from…
Having just written about groups for in-house lawyers interested in operations, I ran across the UK-based Legal IT Innovators Group. Among its 40-50 members listed on the website are at least five companies. The site explains: “We meet for a full day once a quarter in members’ offices to network,…
It is rare to find public information about costs and savings from e-billing, so I read with interest in Canadian Lawyer, Jan. 2010 at 24, about Kruger Products (formerly Scott Paper Co.). In an interview, “the company’s legal counsel and director of human resources” gave some background on what preceded…
The European Lawyer, Issue 91, Nov./Dec. 2009 at 21, reports on a survey of the IT departments of the top 250 UK law firms. The article includes sidebars on nine large law firms throughout Europe. What dumbfounded me was that eight of the nine firms responded “none” to the question…
The European Lawyer, Issue 91, Nov./Dec. 2009 at 21, reports on a survey of the information technology (IT) departments of the top 250 UK law firms. “The overall average spend was 4.3% of their revenue expended on IT.” For legal departments, corresponding data is spotty (See my post of Aug.…