Category: Management and Technology

Several large law firms have laid off lawyers and staff. Less publicized are other cutbacks.  I hear from friends in multiple BigLaw firms that they face pressure to reduce travel costs. If “necessity is the mother of invention” and there is a “silver lining in...

How does managing legal technology compare to managing corporate technology?  A panel discussion at the Strategic Technology Forum in Lisbon, hosted by LegalWeek in Lisbon last month addressed the question. The panelists were David Coates, IT Director of Bond Pearce and formerly of UBS; Jason...

Law firm CIOs who think strategically need to understand the where the legal market and large law firms are heading.   Large UK law firm Eversheds recently released its Law Firm of the 21st Century report. I found it provocative and had hoped to comment...

Successful large law firm CIOs have learned many secrets to managing legal technology.  Over the last year, I wrote in this blog about maxims for managing legal technology. I collected and refined these blog posts, which have now been published as Maxims for Managing Legal...

I have previously written that Australian and UK legal reforms allowing public ownership of law firms could mean big changes in law firms and legal technology. Lyceum Capital in the UK announced in March that it seeks investments in UK law firms. Today, I heard...

The number of law practice management conferences has exploded in the last 20 years. What does this tell us and where are we heading?  In 1989, I saw few conferences of any kind advertised in the legal trade press or by direct mail. To fill...

Law firm CIOs and other managers who want the proverbial “seat at the table” need to follow law firm economics. For large law firms that means the AmLaw rankings.  I could not attend the American Lawyer rankings preview webinar today but found an excellent summary...

Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: “77% of legal professionals… cite a clack of sufficient information technology tools to cope with the ever-increasing information burden.”  Law firms and legal market vendors undoubtedly can do better in creating,...