Category: Management and Technology

New technologies and processes abound in the legal market: e-discovery, portals, customer relationship management (CRM), knowledge management, practice group profitability analysis, matter-centricity, online training, to name a few. What can we learn from the past, both to predict the future and to guide how we...

Applying technology to improve law practice is a continuing challenge, as those of us who have been doing it for years can attest. What, one might ask, are the law schools doing to help?  A New York Law Journal Article, Law Schools Steal a Page...

I have proposed that law firms consider the possibility that lawyers be encouraged to work at home some days or at satellite offices. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports yet another reason to support this idea: workers get more done at home because there are...

The widely reported merger of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Hale & Dorr raises interesting questions about the role technology can play in helping to integrate two firms. To be sure, merging the tech infrastructure of two firms can be a major challenge. I will...

I noticed today on Legal Technology Insider that Interface Software, makers of Interaction customer relationship management (CRM) software, has acquired the assets of Scout Solutions, makers of Aptus.   According the April 19th Interaface press release, “Interface Software announced today that it has signed a...

In my prior post, Working Virtually, I referenced an article I recently wrote for Law Practice suggesting law firms consider facilitating lawyers working from home. A recent Wall Street Journal article, “It’s 10 A.M. – Do You know Where Your Workers Are?” (1/12/04), has some...

The January/February issue of Law Practice magazine includes an article that I wrote called The Future Law Office: Going Virtual. It explores how law firms should consider letting lawyers spend more time working at home or in satellite offices and, in return, rent less space...