Many law departments host a site on their company’s intranet and this blog has noted several of them (See my post of March 1, 2007 #2: Honeywell’s legal intranet; June 24, 2007: Cadbury Schweppes’ intranet; June 6, 2006: traffic on the Office of Legal Affairs, Univ. of North Carolina; and…
If any reader feels like enlightening me on vendors of encryption software that law departments might use, I would be grateful. I mention this because I have been consulting to a company whose legal group encrypts its computers with PointSec. They also use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) to encrypt confidential…
Databases that track information about contracts, often called contract management software, has earned the respect of many general counsel. It helps control the flow of contract development, obligations under executed contracts, key milestones, and responsible parties. This blog has referred many times to that genre of software (See my post…
PLCLaw Dept. Quart., Vol. 3, Jan.-March 2007 at 21, reports survey data about how a group of mostly European general counsel view technology offered for their benefit by law firms. A stacked bar chart describes seven applications according to whether they are deemed “extremely useful,” “very useful,” “useful,” “quite useful,”…
EWeek, Feb. 4, 2008, at 34, lists 10 new technologies in the works at Big Blue, and three of them got me to thinking about law department applications. (1) “The Virtual Team-Building Game is designed to improve trust and cooperation among colleagues unaccustomed to the notion of a virtual meeting.”…
When you customize software, someone writes new code. When you configure software, you rely on the code as written, but change field names, tables, arrangements on the screen, and other elements of the software (See my post of May 23, 2007 about GE’s technology efforts, the disadvantages of customized software,…
An article in Legal Tech. News, April 2008 at 36, lists many easy things any legal team in a company can do to protect the environment. Six of the actions are possible for every law department. (1) Remove your name from mailing lists that send out paper catalogs. (2) Install…
The responsibilities of Leslie Lawson, the paralegal in charge of e-discovery for Eastman Chemical Co., include reviewing software that might help her tasks. In Corp. Counsel, Vol. 15, April 2008 at 76, an article describes Lawson’s role and mentions that “Eastman recently considered purchasing a software program to handle data…
A recent survey found that “Approximately one-third (30%) of in-house counsel sought input from their law firms when evaluating collaborative technologies that they would use together, primarily online matter management and ebilling systems.” This finding comes from the 2007 ACCA/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey, selected results of which are presented…
PEER to PEER, Vol. 23, Nov. 2007, the magazine of the International Legal Technology Association describes ILTA’s Law Department practice group. Headed by Sally Letteri of United States Steel, it facilitates the sharing of information by law-department technologists. For example, the practice group will host a symposium on April 4,…