Tom Koulopoulus was the Monday morning keynote at ILTA09, and his message was one of innovation, and value. My quick take away was that for law firms, and for those of us who are looking to make some changes in that environment, the only way to do it is to prove the value. With the…
Recently, I’ve had some conversation about the idea of whether a particular law firm is innovative or not. It’s a tough question to answer, in my mind, because it really depends on how you define innovative. Just having innovative technology in place does not make a firm innovative, yet at the same time, even the…
I saw their article today about the results of their annual survey of the Electronic Discovery market, and found a couple of striking statements: While two years ago every copy shop in the land became an EDD provider, today law firms nationwide purport to harbor deep EDD expertise. Much of this is a convenient fiction,…
I finished up planning my week for ILTA09 the last week of Aug. As we prepared to get our presentation finished and submitted by the deadline this week, I realized that it’s coming up pretty quick. Unfortunately, as much as ILTA is pushing social networking, they dont have a way to share your itinerary on…
When I read the post What if the Apple Store billed by the hour, I thought to myself, not only is this a good example of the problem with billable hour requirements, but to a lesser extent it’s also a good example of how tracking employees every second and using that to measure productivity can…
I know, times are tough, and budgets have gotten cut all over the place, let alone in the legal industry. That why the folks at ILTA put together a “Make the Case” page that you can present to the management of your law firm as good reasons why the expense of this year’s conference (Aug…