One of the contributors to a recent article in Met. Corp. Counsel, Vol. 17, March 2009 at 35. makes the statement that the most technically efficient legal departments are the ones with dedicated legal IT reporting to the general counsel instead of to the CIO. I agree, but an in-department…
I can’t make sense out of an answer in Met. Corp. Counsel, Vol. 17, March 2009 at 35. The question asked was “What technologies would a new general counsel look to in setting up a legal department? What are the priorities?” One of the respondents replied: “First are basic technologies…
David Munn spoke at the ACC Annual Meeting, Oct. 30, 2007. His materials listed 36 programs for contract management, ranging from relatively inexpensive programs, through matter management systems that include contract management features, to full-blown CLM systems. He points out that most of these vendors have extensive information on their…
This is still a nascent genre. According to the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) 2008 Law Department Survey, when asked which packages they use, three quarters of the 45 respondents said “none.” And these were mostly large companies with large law departments. The software used by the remaining quarter of…
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) 2008 Law Department Survey at 11 reports on three kinds of specialized software for law departments. This post lists the packages and the percentage of the 45 respondent law departments, mostly large, that reported using them. The software with zero percent were probably on…
The website of LegalMaster lists approximately 131 companies and what seems to be the e-billing system their law department uses. After some scrubbing of that data, I can pass on below the number of users for two dozen packages and their percentage of the website’s group. CSC Litigation Advisor 34…
Matter management systems all have reporting capabilities, from canned reports that come with installation to elaborate report writers. The low-tech way to supplement those capabilities is to export data to a spreadsheet and massage it there (See my post of May 8, 2008: export data to a spreadsheet.). Further sophistication…
No one boasts of their plain-vanilla software, their program that gets the job done and thank you ma’am. Everyone in articles brags about chrome-plated, futuristic, leading-edge whizbang that is the talk of the town. Magazines praise you and pick you for awards if you have dared state-of-the-art technology. Vendors splash…
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) released the results of its 2008 Law Department Survey of 45 law departments. The respondents could check all that apply, so there may be more systems than departments. In declining order of use, the DMS’s mentioned are: Open Text DocsOpen/DB (30%) Interwoven and, EMC…
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) released the results of its 2008 Law Department Survey. Forty-five departments responded, and about 34 of them were in companies with more than $10 billion in revenue, so we have a substantial population of large law departments. The report provides some very useful information.…