Most of the metaposts on Law Department Management Blog look at specific categories of software, including the following seven: Contract management (See my post of Nov. 22, 2008: contract management software with 11 references.). Decision trees (See my post of June 17, 2009: decision tree software with 6 references.) Document…
A new blog dedicated to legal holds cited one of my posts, so I wanted to thank them and list their blog. The site is by a New York attorney, John Jablonski. Second, I found that I have accumulated four posts on litigation hold notices since my last metapost (See…
“As a large company, we use three systems for tracking and managing matters. There is a [commercial] legal software system, a Lotus-based system, and a homegrown system. We also overlay the use of Excel for tracking spending by division, by matter and by other indicators.” This eyebrow-raising admisssion comes from…
After my recent post (See my post of June 1, 2009: SharePoint as an option for legal departments.), Adam Davidson of National Grid, a UK company, wrote me. “The in-house team I work in has been using SharePoint for document management, time recording and general collaboration for over three years,…
I had not realized that so many search tools are available for those who want to find patents. If you want to find out more about them, Intellogist can make your research and decision process easier. Intellogist is a free service from Landon IP with more than 30 reviews of…
SharePoint must have a huge following, since the post I wrote a few days back attracted many readers (See my post of June 1, 2009: SharePoint as an option for legal departments.). Yet the post was quite generic. What is the name of even one legal department that uses SharePoint…
A long article in the ACC Docket, Vol. 27, May 2009 at 47, mentions (at 50) that matter management systems can absorb data electronically from service-of-process (SOP) agents. Registered agents, as they are also called, enter information about complaints, subpoenas and other records served on them as the official agents…
Law departments ought to consider Microsoft’s SharePoint for some of their automation needs, according to an article by a consulting firm in ACC Docket, Vol. 27, May 2009 at 18. The article describes it as having the potential to serve as a matter management system, a document management system, an…
Accustomed behaviors waste electricity; changed behaviors can save it. For three examples of what is easy to change, I commend Joe Howie’s article in Legal Tech. News, May 2009 at 40. The first tool is the Smart Strip Power Strip, from Bits Ltd., which “turns off peripheral devices when the…
“One of the considerations involved in managing the automation of a corporate law department is the obligation to follow corporate standards. This becomes important in order to allow for support staff mobility [RWM: so that IT support and administrative staff can use the software wherever they go within the company],…