At ILTA 2009, a partner from Mallesons showed what they call “Mallesons Connect.” It is an extranet system for one of their largest clients. Its purpose is to provide transparency to the client about the services on their behalf provided by the law firm. On a dashboard, the members of…
At ILTA 2009, John Alber, a partner at Bryan Cave, described a system his firm developed to give advice on certain export and import questions that many companies encounter. For an annual fee of “a couple of $100,000,” subscribers can query the system and find many of the answers they…
One of the ten disruptive technologies presented by Richard Susskind at ILTA 2009 was online dispute resolution. He specifically mentioned SquareTrade and CyberSettle. In his remarks, Susskind explained the double-blind method where two parties can come to terms without disclosing their ultimate position to the other side. One side submits…
A post by Andrew Davis on the Exari blog added several ideas to my post about the four issues can actually benefit from document assembly (See my post of Oct. 7, 2009: contract management’s four key concerns.). His main point is that document assembly addresses and at least partially solves…
Fred Smith, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing of Trademarkia, wrote me about his startup, Trademarkia.com that launched in September 2009. Smith explained that “Trademarkia has built the first and largest library of 5.7 million logos, names, and slogans anywhere on the Internet by leveraging public information. [Rees Morrison: The website…
From guest author Steven Levy,slightly abridged, here are seven key “go-do’s” for successful Legal-IT projects. They’re based on but somewhat different from CIO Magazine’s tips, and they take into account a few ways in which “Legal is different.” Require an honest business case. ROI, ROI, ROI. I can’t repeat this…
I use the term “project management” to mean a set of disciplines for keeping a complicated set of tasks on time and efficiently run (See my post of April 28, 2009: project management skills at SABIC Innovative Plastics; and June 24, 2007: project management with 5 references.) Others use the…
This blog can help readers by naming legal departments that have licensed specialized software. If you tell me about those instances, as end-user or as consultant or as software provider, I will periodically summarize the information without attribution. Other legal departments, pondering software selection, will find the information useful and…
Amidst the large number of specialty packages (See my post of Feb. 9, 2008: law-department software applications with 59 references.), it is important for managers in legal departments not to lose sight of the basic software choices. It will make much more difference to their legal teams if everyone understands…
While building another post, I realized I had not assembled in one place my various comments on software for corporate secretarial functions. Not one to dally around, here are the eleven posts (See my post of July 19, 2006: corporate secretarial web portals; Aug. 9, 2006: merger of corporate secretary…