This speculation comes from the Met. Corp. Counsel, Vol. 18, Jan. 2010 at 18. “Often legal departments remain with the billable hour because their billing systems and supervisory arrangements are not positioned to deal with the perceived complexities of alternative fee arrangements.” I don’t buy that. A matter management system…
An excellent support group for legal department personnel who deal with technology is the Corporate/Government Practice Group of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). It has close to 250 members, I believe, and it has produced some very useful ideas and research commented on by this blog. One post introduced…
A global mapping system for trademarks, available to clients of Reed Smith, appears to be an innovative way to assist decision analysis. The software uses global mapping to portray the international complexities of an IT strategy. As reported in Corp. Counsel, Vol. 17, Dec. 2009 at 41, the software locates…
For a long-term client of mine, I have been issued a laptop because of the company’s stringent security efforts. To log onto the laptop I must not only enter my username and password but also pass a fingerprint test. It works wonderfully and amazes me. I swipe my index finger…
I Twitter infrequently although I see steadily increasing traffic here from Twitter. When people retweet one of my items or write their own with a link, readers click through. Today I noticed that my tweets are on three “lists.” Here is the information about them. @IntegreonEDD/legal following 56 Twitter members…
If you visit the website of Mitratech, one of the leading providers of software for legal departments, you may notice the coterie of consultants who have been trained on how to help develop, plan and implement the TeamConnect software. Nine are listed. Acolyst Baker Robbins Computer Generated Services (CGS) Duff…
“It usually takes five to seven years for IT investments to produce substantial returns because it typically takes that long for companies to make the organisational changes needed to capitalise on the new technology,” opines the Economist, Oct. 24, 2009 at 74. For software investments by legal departments to materially…
On a lark, I ran a Google search for the combination of “law” and “matter management system.” In the sponsored links at the top, first came LexisNexis’ CounselLink, followed at number four by Bridgeway’s eCounsel, and number six EAG’s CaseTrack. The other top links were not for matter management software…
By guest author Steven Levy of Lexician. Recently the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted a session titled “”Inexpensive/Free Applications for Your Law Department.” The speakers extolled the virtues of open source software as “free applications.” Every parent understands that there is no such thing as a free puppy. The acquisition…
Guest author Steven Levy reports on a new development: WhichDraft.com is a new and interesting free online contract site run by two experienced attorneys. This appears to be both a simple and reasonably powerful document assembly tool. It has a large number of pre-drafted contracts for individual users looking to…