Category: Management and Technology

Notice to legal market innovators: replace the arrows in your back with an award that recognizes your hard work and risk taking.  The College of Law Practice Management in concert with Edge International announces The Second Annual InnovAction Awards recognizing innovation in law practices around...

Legal Tech NYC is a good time of year to take stock of the legal technology market. Some years nothing is new (e.g., around 1992, the only new thing at Legal Tech was a coffee maker!). This year, fortunately, there is much to report…  ...

Consulting firm Hildebrandt and The Law Firm Group of the Citigroup Private Bank, which works with many of the leading law firms, have just released their 2005 Client Advisory. The combination of Hildebrandt’s strategic insight with Citigroup’s financial insight yields a very useful look at...

Large law firms CIOs and IT managers frequently benchmark their operations against the competition for their own purposes or in response to firm management. The International Legal Technology Association (formerly LawNet) has recently released an excellent IT staffing survey to help in this regard. And...

I have previously posted about General Electric’s experiments to use auctions to buy legal services. The experiment seems to be a success.  In “General Electric names 37 firms for UK panel launch,” LegalIT reported on January 19th that in the UK, GE selected 37 firms...

Ringing in the new year is a great article by a Cisco law department member on how technology can change and dramatically improve the ways lawyers practice and the business relationship between lawyer and client.  Laura Owen, a lawyer who is director, worldwide legal services,...

I started my career in legal technology in 1989. For most practical purposes, this means I was in the legal market at the beginning of the PC revolution. And I had many colleagues who shared with me their technology experiences from the prior decades. For...

Last year GE Capital began an experiment to purchase legal services via auction (see my posting). Two years into the experiment, GE reports savings of up to 20%.  GE Capital Wins Big with Legal-Services Auctions in the Corporate Legal Times September issue quotes Barbara Daniele,...