Every now and then law departments request software written especially for their own purposes. Usually they are very large departments and they conclude that there is no suitable package available for license. Custom software that holds promise as precisely targeted to solve a need may be the perfect solution, or…
If you are interested in knowing more about software for contract management, you can get my compilation of 39 of them. My list has the trade name of the package, the vendor’s name, and a website address. While it can’t claim to be the definitive list of software geared toward…
LawDepartmentManagementBlog is pleased to publish the submission of Phil Homburger, the founder and CEO of Synaptec Software, creator of the law department matter management system, LawBase. phil@lawbase.com “We started programming LawBase in 1979. It became an actual product in 1981. We began before the IBM PC was announced and before…
An obvious but nonsensical, answer would be “all matters.” That cannot be the solution since it begs the question “What makes something a matter?” (See my post of March 26, 2008: definition of the term “matter”.). Many law departments deem a set of legal activities a matter for purposes of…
A negotiation app that was released recently through Apple and will be released soon for Android (BlackBerry to follow) could help in-house counsel. This offering came to my attention from Don Philbin, Jr. He wrote “We’ve been studying negotiation patterns empirically with thousands of cases and have some good models…
Early next year, General Counsel Metrics will produce a breakthrough analysis of matter management software (MMS) in light of law department benchmark metrics. Along with the quantitative insights, there will be assembled my MMS posts from this blog. There are today 143 of them, all organized into five topical areas,…
Early in the data collection this year for the GC Metrics benchmark survey, 69 law departments stated how many years they had been using their matter management system. The average number of years those departments had had their system installed was 6.4 years. Later, with 652 law departments in the…
Describing new developments in CounselLink, Jeff Schuett, its VP and GM at LexisNexis described one particular addition that deserves note from Met. Corp. Counsel, Nov. 2011 at 30. The matter management software has a new feature that “can support existing agreements, allowing clients to publish the billing rules, manage the…
What can be said usefully in 1,500 words on matter management systems? Lots of vendors and consultants can’t clear their throat in that space – “huge forces at work,” “GCs under huge pressure,” “need for information and insight,” “costs spiraling out of control.” I tried to write my National Law…
The latest submission in my series features Eric Blankenship, the veteran leader of EAG’s matter management system offering. “Founded in 1986, EAG specializes in providing matter management software to corporate legal departments, and litigation consulting services to banks, insurance companies, securities firms and individual investors. CaseTrack was first introduced in…