by Bruce | June 5, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Technology strategy
I for one am surprised this hasn’t happened sooner, but outsourcing administrative and staff functions—if not yet paralegal and even attorney functions—just got a high-visibility boost from the entry of Hildebrandt consulting into the sector. ...
by Bruce | May 30, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
If a University of California study is to be believed, 800MB of electronic data is generated every year for every man, woman, and child on the planet. (And some of us are responsible for more than others.) Be that as it may, this Legal Week article is a nice...
by Bruce | May 21, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
The former IT director of Herbert Smith, the large UK firm, evaluates the state of the art on the lawyer’s desktop, and finds it deeply unsatisfactory. I told you that "lawyers live in Outlook," and evidently that’s more true than most people...
by Bruce | May 20, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Technology strategy
Michael Schrage of CIO Magazine has a characteristically sane and clear-eyed column about the value—and the concomitant risk—of free-wheeling internal corporate blogs, and he apparently has the goods on some in-house Fortune 500 examples. What topics do...
by Bruce | May 19, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
What are the pitfalls of document management in the digital age? Let me count the ways: statutes (e.g., SOX) may tell you how long you have to retain documents (five years past an audit, e.g.), but if not you have to decide what your policy is; you can violate...
by Bruce | May 11, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
Thinking of building or updating your firm’s on-line "portal?" Can we start by just defining our terms? What is a "portal," after all, and what strategic objectives is your firm trying to achieve? According to this article in Legal IT,...