According to the “12th Annual Law Department Operations Survey,” released last month, business process improvement is the leading current and expected challenge for corporate legal departments, followed closely by the need to stay abreast of law department technology. The survey produced by the Blickstein Group is created via an advisory board consisting of law department
There are typically one or several underlying reasons why organizations invest in and roll out new technology. Among these reasons could be typical business drivers such as increasing revenue, controlling costs, improving client responsiveness, or enabling worker mobility. The project rationale could stem from a single compelling event. For instance, an infamous data breach occurs
I have participated in hundreds of technology adoption projects in my career and have seen first-hand that professionals — highly experienced in the good and bad of technology rollouts — consistently give limited attention to user adoption. Adoption tasks by my estimation typically occupy as little as 5-10% of most technology project plans. And those
The day had arrived, and I was thrust into my first Knowledge Jam earlier this year. Would I be a convert? Would I be screaming from the rooftops the value of ‘jamming’? Unlikely, as I’m generally quite a cynical person and could think of plenty of other ways I would prefer to spend my time.
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
