Law firms now face significant penalties if they don’t disclose and take action on potential conflicts of interest when taking on clients. And that’s on top of the detriment a potential conflict could have on the firm’s reputation. But the traditionally manual process of reviewing for conflicts is time-consuming as it requires manually entering and
With Post-It notes and my name badge in hand, I turned up to the recent Legal Design Geek event a little sceptical of yet another day of conference lectures. Given that it was the day following its older brother conference, Legal Geek, I suspect some of the other geeks that planned to attend both events
iManage RAVN will take part in the first ever Future Lawyer Week USA event this week at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. The two-day event, designed for in-house counsel and private practice law firms, has successfully run in the UK for the past three years, and is now moving stateside. The first day will
The annual Legal Geek conference is always interesting, energetic, and a great event to get a real feel for the evolving mindset and sentiment driving technology, change, and innovation in the sector. From the standpoint of data management and artificial intelligence (AI), it’s heartening to see that the sector’s approach to the technology is slowly,
The productization of legal services been touted as both the next great move forward for the legal industry and an unnecessary distraction–depending who’s weighing in or maybe even what day it is. The issue was explored in depth at the iManage Legal Innovation and Technology Summit (LITLS) in September, which brought together over 50 large
ILTA this week released the full results of its 2019 Technology Survey which demonstrates how law firms continue to embrace IT behind other industries. Of the 537 respondents to this year’s survey, 2/3 are from firms 150 lawyers or less, with the results showing that legal digital transformation has now moved beyond the top AmLaw
iManage is holding a special ANZ Seminar Series to help firms navigate the digital transformation required to remain competitive in today’s landscape. These morning breakfast sessions, to be held in Auckland in Nov. 11, Melbourne, Nov. 13, and Sydney, Nov. 15, will be presented in collaboration with our partners to help firms meet all their
As the dust continues to settle from LegalGeek, I’ve had some time to reflect on what insights I got from the conference. It’s great to see and catch up with so many clients. But it’s also insightful to see what other vendors in the space are doing. It’s really like a check point in the
Law firms today face unprecedented challenges from a rapidly changing market and technology landscape. A new generation of professionals are coming in with new expectations of what technology can do and what law firm support for them looks like New emerging threats have forced firms to put information behind ethical and policy-based walls creating a
Though records managers often must maintain boxes of old paper records—in addition to electronic records—they no longer have to forgo modern digital technologies, like cloud service delivery. This was a newer theme that was heavily discussed in several education sessions and the exhibition floor at the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) InfoCon 2019,
