In the news: "Attorney Laurie Weiss and Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski describe how the firm's deployment of Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery with predictive coding functionality, concept clustering and data analytics automated e-discovery workflows and reduced the time and cost of document review."
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Many large firms have been slow to invest in legal software, which helps streamline and expedite case work, because individual programs can be both expensive and too field-specific for generalist practices. Boutiques, however, which concentrate on only a few legal aspects, can justify investment in a handful of such programs because they are more likely to use them repeatedly. This has allowed the boutiques to become far more efficient in their chosen fields than their larger rivals, according to Barron Henley, a legal technologist with Affinity Consulting Group in
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Source: Future Lawyer, 26 July 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.
From an e-newsletter: "One increasingly popular term that the typical attorney would have scoffed at only a few years ago is "Legal Project Management." However, the Great Recession has made law firms return to more of a focus more on profitability and what it takes to get there."
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This post was written by John Heckman: "I have been involved with Time Matters for about 10 years, 7 of those as a CIC (Certified Independent Consultant). Many people are aware that I was unceremoniously excommunicated from the CIC program by the late unlamented Charlie Rogers just days before the CIC conference in 2007 for criticisms of LexisNexis.
I had drafted an article on the state of LexisNexis in February of that year (2007) and finally published it my blog in February of 2008 as "Acquire, Merge, Destroy." I published a followup a year later, and numerous articles since then
Sad to say, most of the analysis in those articles has been borne out, and many of the predictions have come about..."
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This post was written by : "I have been using Freshbooks for timekeeping and billing for over two years, since March 2008. I discovered Freshbooks in December 2007, started testing it with the free account, and quickly decided that Freshbooks is a better solution than anything I had used before (Time Matters, Timeslips, ProLaw, and Amicus). I've used it ever since, and it is getting better as my practice grows..."
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Source: Lawyerist.com, 6 July 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.
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Software, Calendar, Mail and Other Stuff
Backup and Networking
The Other Benefits
In the End...
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This particular chicken and egg question has come up quite a few times in the last few weeks. For example, I recently talked to a law firm IT project manager who was stunned at how rapidly his fortunes had changed. He has worked for a firm with over 500 lawyers for several years, and has spent much of that time trying to get lawyers to accept the idea of applying project management principles to legal matters.
Until a few months ago, nobody listened. Then the news came out that Dechert had trained every one of its partners in this area and all of a sudden people were asking him to recommend project management systems, tools and training.
Which is where the chicken and egg question comes in. Does a firm need to have project management software and systems in place before they train lawyers how to work more efficiently? Or should they begin project management training as quickly as possible, to encourage lawyers to change behavior that can have an immediate impact on client communication and the bottom line?..."
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This post was written by Bryan Sims: "One of the problems that I have when describing my paperless practice to others is the fact that my practice is not really paperless. I use plenty of paper. In fact, a couple of days ago, I mailed out close to 100 pages of paper in court filings and courtesy copies. Because of this, I have, at times, had trouble explaining exactly what I am talking about.
Fortunately for me, I have found the answer I have been looking for. I recently checked out the About Page on the Going Paperless blog by Molly DiBianca. In that About Page, she explains:
Although there seems to be a whole lot of chatter about what exactly a "paperless office" is, exactly, I'd suggest it's not so complicated. Certainly, I still use paper. And plenty of it, truth be told. The "paperless" part is not that paper is not used-it's that paper is irrelevant. In a paperless office (at least as I've defined it), there is no reliance on a paper file. Everything (and I mean everything) is filed electronically using a document-management system..."
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Source: The Connected Lawyer, 5 May 2010. © 2010 All Rights Reserved . Reproduced with permission of the author.
Today we were debating the merits of another new program, and we both agreed that while organization is key, some programs merely duplicate the organization of another program. Effectively, this can force you to spend time managing the various ways you stay organized..."
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