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Pressure Points: How to Move Forward Successfully with Technology Leasing
The 2013 IT Budget Benchmark Report conducted by Corporate Executive Board (CEB) Global reveals CIOs across the globe expect a modest growth in total IT expenditure while capital expenditure growth will stay flat. See, www.executiveboard.com/it-blog/2013-it-budget. Despite CIOs' efforts to reduce maintenance and mandatory spending, this continues to represent nearly 70% of total IT expenditure. This trend is amplified in the 2012 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey (http://bit.ly/12nQwgj) where overall law firm technology spend ' as a percentage of total revenue and per attorney ' is still down from the pre-2009 economic downturn and firms across the board were spending less on technology as allocated per attorney.
However, according to a Gartner report just released on 10 critical tech trends for CIOs over the next five years, there is significant growth in IT complexity. Faster change cycles are being predicted with shorter development timelines and end-users increasing demands on IT.
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.