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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +IT No-No’s
InfoWorld's cover story is "The Top 20 IT Mistakes," and it's a rogues' gallery indeed. Amusingly, many are the converse of another: For example, "botching your outsourcing strategy" vs. "offshoring with blinders on." ...
Be Careful What You Wish For
What enterprise software market is growing 15%/year and is expected, if anything, to accelerate in the next few years? If you answered, "Sarbox compliance app's," guess again: They grew far more than 15% in the last couple of years but must, by...
Monica Bay Enters the Blogosphere
Long overdue is the entry of Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News and editorial director of Law Firm, Inc. and Small Firm Business into the blogosphere with her already-engaging blog, The Common Scold. Two days before Thanksgiving, it is well to...
“Your Call Is Important to Us…”
Is CRM [Customer Relationship Management software] a bridge too far for a firm? This question is probably a tar pit from which one cannot emerge unsullied with a single, unitary correct answer, but as both the power of CRM applications and the competitiveness of...
Your Managing Partner vs. Your Executive Director
It has long seemed to me that the corporate-land debate over whether the CEO and the Chairman should be one person or two mirrors the law-land debate over the relationship between the Executive Director (or equivalent) and the Managing Partner. On the premise...