Law Roundtable

PeopleFinder, a new system by leading Australian law firm Mallesons, makes clear that previous views of client facing technology have been too narrow. 

Client-facing typically has meant extranets, document creation software, or content-rich systems, including online legal services. While new instances of these come to market periodically, innovation is ...

Today inhouse counsel at Sun Microsystems shared hands-on experience with legal outsourcing. This is the best legal process outsourcings (LPO) presentation I have seen to date by an actual customer. 

The Legal Process Outsourcing Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals today held its second webinar, chaired ...

Several large law firms have laid off lawyers and staff. Less publicized are other cutbacks. 

I hear from friends in multiple BigLaw firms that they face pressure to reduce travel costs. If “necessity is the mother of invention” and there is a “silver lining in every cloud,” then perhaps ...

The American way is “innocent until proven guilty.” The American Lawyer way seems to be “guilty by association”. 

The July 2008 American Lawyer, in the “Bar Talk” section, has an article Irony, Thy Name is Guidance sub-titled “Howrey’s EDD provider has EDD problems of its own.” The short ...

It’s surprising, but computers seem less predictable and more moody than people. 

Who would have thought that the seeming black and white of the binary world would lead to the moral equivalent of moodiness. And I don’t mean dystopian visions such as HAL in 2001. I mean here and ...

In the late 1990s, large law firms started creating web-based interactive legal advisory systems. What happened to that trend? 

Market data on the number subscribers, and revenue is not available; as far as I know, the best listing of these types of systems is my Online Legal Services list. ...

How does managing legal technology compare to managing corporate technology? 

A panel discussion at the Strategic Technology Forum in Lisbon, hosted by LegalWeek in Lisbon last month addressed the question. The panelists were David Coates, IT Director of Bond Pearce and formerly of UBS; Jason Haines, Director of ...

Law firm CIOs who think strategically need to understand the where the legal market and large law firms are heading.  

Large UK law firm Eversheds recently released its Law Firm of the 21st Century report. I found it provocative and had hoped to comment about it but too ...

A pending change in Internet domain names creates new law firm branding opportunities. 

The New York Times reports in New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way (27 June 2008) that the authority regulating Internet domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a “modest proposal” to regulate BigLaw. This post generated a fair bit of stimulating conversation. What’s interesting is that many seem to have taken my proposal at face value rather than the intended satire. 

First, let me reference the discussion it ...