The pace of change in the legal profession has been accelerating over the past few years – a technology driven transformation of the legal system. Rarely a day goes by that we don’t read about new technology that promises to make lawyers more efficient than ever before, or replace them altogether. Compared to other service …
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ILTACON – DIY or Outsource? A Decision Process Review
We all have attempted to tackle a home project only to call a handyman as it became increasingly complex the deeper we got into the project. An organization’s decision process on whether to outsource document review and other legal services is much like that – figuring out which do-it-yourself (DIY) projects they have the requisite …
ILTACON – Day 1 Keynote: “What Happens When Passion and Talent Meet”
Author Sir Ken Robinson opened ITLACON this week with an inspiring keynote based on his book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. He was everything you want in a keynote speaker – funny, a bit irreverent and gave your brain something to chew on for a few days even while it was trying to …
ILTACON – Thoughts from David Curle, Thomson Reuters director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence
With ILTACON drawing to a close, Legal Current spoke with David Curle, director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence at Thomson Reuters, to get his thoughts on the panels and trends at this year’s show.
ILTACON — Thomson Reuters, Westlaw and Thomson Reuters ELITE Recognized for Excellent Customer Support
With ILTACON wrapping up, InsideLegal has released the results of its 2015 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey, which asked 184 firms for their insights into “technology budget data; updated information on firms’ purchasing influences and patterns; legal IT department trends and challenges; and expansive sections on specific legal technology purchases.” The final question of the survey …
ILTACON – Don’t Just Implement. Adopt!
“Don’t Just Implement. Adopt!” panelists from Perkins Coie LLP, Shearman & Sterling LLP, and Kaye Scholer LLP gathered at ILTACON to discuss the pain of software that wasn’t adequately adopted by their firms. Why should you care? According to the director of KM for Perkins Coie, every minute spent in non-billable time is like time …
ILTACON – The Need for Speed: Rapid-Fire Problem-Solving in a Time-Starved World
During the ITLACON 2015 Session “The Need for Speed: Rapid-Fire Problem-Solving in a Time-Starved World,” attendees hoped to learn to make better, faster decisions with their teams. The session was structured as a workshop in which more than 200 attendees were split into small teams and prompted to make quick decisions on complex challenges such …
ILTACON – Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering and Destroying the Legal Profession
The Napsterization of the legal industry is growing more plausible every day. The innovation and disruption seen in the music business around digitization and file sharing is happening right now to the legal industry. Ryan McClead of Norton Rose Fulbright led a panel discussion, “Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering and Destroying the Legal Profession,” at ILTACON …
ILTACON 2015 – Kim Stein of Thomson Reuters KM Solutions
Legal Current took a few minutes from a busy ILTACON to interview Kim Stein, national manager of Knowledge Management Solutions for Thomson Reuters, about moderating Thursday’s panel, “Guerilla KM,” the full roster of events and trends at this year’s show.
ILTACON – “Watson, I Need You!” Augmented Intelligence for Legal
If you were to imagine the researching aspect of a law firm of the future, what would that look like? Kyla Moran from the IBM Watson Group led a discussion down the path of what we could expect. In what seemed like a shock to many in the room, Moran described an office similar to …
