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The Evolving Minimal Technology Footprint

By Eric Hunter
April 27, 2012

Here's a theory: The cloud enables firms to adopt a legal project management (LPM) approach to billing, financial management, even client relations, with a minimal technology footprint ' all based on the introduction of a disciplined process, yet perhaps unorthodox approach. LPM in the cloud promotes a team and account management philosophy, including a broader attorney and firm user base all collaborating to provide better client service. While recently speaking at the LawTech Futures event in London, I heard a futurist give a fascinating perspective on how we are evolving from the economics of scarcity to the economics of ubiquity ' basically having easy access to everything! If we indeed have unlimited access, thanks to Google for information, Facebook for interpersonal connections and cloud deployments for collaboration, we should be open to exploring creative and social ways (think in terms of spheres as opposed to “top to bottom” lines) to organize our attorneys into teams and deliver better client service.

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