Category: Management and Technology

I am co-chairing, with Neeraj Rajpal. Managing Director & Chief Information Officer, Morrison & Foerster LLP, the Hildebrandt West LegalEd Center CIO Forum on April 24, 2012 in NYC. I hope you will consider joining.  We have several sessions planned: Living with Uncertainty: Current State...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday in Cut Those Costs! (But Not Tech.) that while most companies still look to reduce costs, many “are boosting IT spending, hoping to get a competitive edge”. Should lawyers and law firms do the same?  The article reports...

Office Work Space Is Shrinking, but That’s Not All Bad (New York Time, 19 Jan 2011) is a good read for anyone interested in working virtually and the future of work spaces.   Employees have become more mobile. One study found that 60% of desks...

In recent decades, law firms have added many new functions, for example, marketing, practice support, e-discovery, client service, business research, and knowledge management. Some firms have also created business analyst roles, which are often in information technology.  A business analyst in IT is not the...

The latest American Lawyer Technology Survey is out. Cloudy Forecast in the Am Law Tech Survey 2010 finds that BigLaw IT budgets are still tight.  My take is that there is not much new or exciting in legal tech in large law firms. Reviewing the...

I am attending the conference 2010 Futures Conference & Symposium Agenda hosted by the College of Law Practice Management and the American University Washington College of law. This is a live blog post of Social Media: the Ultimate Business Development Tool or a Huge Waste...

This is a live post from a private large law firm practice management meeting. This session is “LPM Real World Experience: Lawyers Who’ve Led the Charge.” This is a presentation by partners from two large firms that have implemented legal project management.  Large Law Firm...