CIO.com announced the winners of their 2008 CIO 100 Awards honoring 100 companies that are creating new business value by innovating with technology. Two law firms made the list: Goodwin Procter for Matter Pages Goodwin Procter deployed Matter Pages to manage matter-related information for more than 850 attorneys working in eight different locations. Matter Pages [...]
As reported in The Lawyer . com, the Eversheds has grabbed a big chunk of legal work from Tyco. It sounds like the key to getting the work was putting an electronic approval process in place. Using their Global Account Management System (GAMS), which requires the lawyer at Eversheds to fill out a quick form [...]
While I was watching the New England Patriots steamroll over the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday, there was a flurry and a twitter of posts, comments and twits about whether enterprise software should be “sexy.” It all started with Robert Scoble of Scobleizer wondering why Enterprise software isn’t sexy. Stephen Collins of acidlabs thinks Enterprise apps *can* [...]
I heard a short presentation on knowledge management on Thursday night: “Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake.” Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin
I was surprised at the lack of “live bloggers” at ILTA. It is a technology conference so I expected to see some interesting ways people were keeping notes and tracking information. Lisa Kellar Gianakos was toting around a tablet PC. But otherwise, I saw very few people using computers. Mostly, I saw people scratching some [...]
In wandering through the vendor booths at ILTA, I stopped by the Workshare booth with a configuration question. (I had an issue with the rendering set in Deltaview.) While I was there they pointed out some new features in Workshare Professional 5. Now the software can compare a word document to a PDF document. This [...]
WSJ.com (soon to be part of Murdoch’s empire) had a story on the troubles of married couples sharing technology: ‘Til Tech Do Us Part. (Subscription?) The story highlighted the problems created with a shared music library, recording on Tivo, joint email accounts, NetFlix, Amazon.com recommendations, and joint blogs. A jogger is jarred by having his [...]
ABA is now selling iPods, in your choice of colors and pre-loaded with ABA CLE programs: ABA-CLE Podcasts and Preloaded iPods. When I initially bought my iPod I ripped my CD collection and bought a few albums from iTunes. Over the last year I have used my iPod mostly for listening to podcasts. It is [...]
Mark Chandler is the SVP and General Counsel of Cisco Systems and on Januray 25, 2007 in San Diego, CA he gave a luncheon speech at the Northwestern School of Law’s 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute. Transcript of Speech “…the greatest vulnerability of the legal industry today is a failure to make information more accessible [...]