Category: Management and Technology

The Wall Street Journal article Bringing Surgeons Down to Earth (11/16/05, $) reports on making surgeons pay more attention to non-doctors in the operating room, which turns out to save lives. Lawyers are at the top of their own caste system – can they learn...

When a large law firm rolls out new software, how can it measure success? Do firms even ask this question? Reader feedback is welcome.  As CIO at a large law firm, I deployed a portal. We bought separate tracking software to measure and analyze portal...

Lawyers are increasingly mobile – technology lets them work from almost anywhere. I suggested in The Future Law Office: Going Virtual that lawyers could sometimes work at home or in satellite offices. Law firms would save on rent and lawyers would save commute time. Two...

Are you an innovation proponent in a large law firm? Ever wonder why life is hard?  Richard Susskind, a leading legal technology thinker and consultant, writes an excellent article in the Financial Times Online: Backroom boys lead ‘positive disruption’ (free registration required; spotted on DennisKennedy.blog)....

I sometimes despair that lawyers will ever “get it about technology.” But now I think we may be turning a corner.  Lawyers don’t need to be techies, but they should make conscious decisions about how they practice and the tools they use. For too long,...

Is blogging here to stay? Lawyers seem to ask that more than most. I think the answer is clearly yes.  Last week I presented at the Fall Educational Forum of the ALA Capital Chapter on whether blogging is here to stay. I explained blogging basics...

ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) has released its latest, 10th anniversary edition, of the AmLaw Tech Survey.  We sometimes forget how much has changed in 10 years. Highlights include the revolution in mobility (laptops, PDAs, and Blackberries), the adoption of wireless networks, and increasing budgets...