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The Future in Law Firm Technology
When I started in law firm technology in the late 1980s, the key phrase was “data processing.” In fact, that was my title at the law firm: Data Processing Manager. We had a variety of proprietary technology from IBM, Wang and a litigation support company that I can't even remember. The challenge was to provide access to this data regardless of source or location. As technology has evolved and we've gone from proprietary systems to open ones with standard data types, access to data is much easier. In fact, today's challenge is not accessing information, it's deciding what to access and what to do with it. While in the past one needed to be a computer scientist with the right training ' and even that only helped if the data was actually there ' today there is so much information at the fingertips that it is overwhelming.
To date, software providers have solved this problem with dashboards, portals and reports. But these tools only scratch the surface: it's still too hard to know what's important as the decisions on what is tracked qualitative. In order to get truly quantitative, the data, not our preconceived assumptions, has to tell us what's important.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.