Pressures are increasing for legal IT professionals to increase productivity and reduce costs. Couple that with the demand for anytime and anywhere access to law firm data and the result is a multi-front push for cloud based solutions. At the forefront of this struggle are core functions of a firm like content management, collaboration, search, eDiscovery and …
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Podcast: Big Data in law firms – opportunities and risks
Harnessing Big Data could be a key for firms seeking to gain competitive advantages and boost their business development efforts. In the podcast below, Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, discuss their recently published white paper, produced by ILTA, that …
The 2020 Data Center: ILTA 2014 session
As the law firm of the future looks globally to serve its clients, cloud-based data solutions will become even more crucial to survive. But with data storage regulations varying from country to country, how are law firm IT departments supposed to find a cost-effective, secure and practical answer? “By the time you review and propose …
Talk to Yourself and Be Crazy (Productive): ILTA 2014 session
During his opening keynote at ILTA 2014, Peter Diamandis reflected on how Charles Lindberg’s flight across the Atlantic inspired him to create the X Prize for space exploration. Looking to the past as a path to the future was a common thread during a follow-up session titled, “Talk to Yourself and Be Crazy (Productive),” specifically …
To App or Not to App? ILTA 2014 session
To app or not to app? That was the question on Monday afternoon at an ILTA session in Nashville, TN. Representatives from three law firms were on hand to discuss how they got to the drawing board through the release and lessons they learned along the way. Marika DePron, Bracewell & Guilliani; Elyse Lazaruk, Latham …
Here and Now and Beyond: Law Firm 2020 at ILTA 2014
This afternoon, I attended a session at ILTA titled “Here, Now & Beyond Law 2020,” presented by Jeffrey Brandt (PinHawk), David Stanton and Marty Metz (both with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). They discussed factors effecting significant change for law firms today. The panel seemed to agree on the importance of information governance and how it …
ILTA 2014 opening keynote by Peter Diamandis: Our world of abundance
ILTA 2014 kicked off with a bang on Monday morning in Nashville, TN, with a keynote by Peter Diamandis, author, innovator and co-founder/executive chairman of Singularity University, the leading institution for the study of exponentially growing technologies. The theme at this year’s ILTA conference is “Imagine,” and Diamandis capitalized on that theme by asking the …
Gail Cohen talks about Canadian Lawyer Top 25 Influential at ABA Annual
We caught up with Gail Cohen, editor in chief of Canadian Lawyer, last week in Boston during the ABA Annual Meeting, where she talked about the release of the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential list For more on the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential, including profiles of all of this year’s honorees, visit canadianlawyermag.com
Should firms be mining for gold in Big Data?
It’s all about the definition we give something. Take “Big Data,” for instance. This term has so many definitions that it is difficult to say whether law firms are even dealing with it. Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, co-authored …
Thomson Reuters and CWAG announce expansion of partnership
Building on a longstanding relationship with CWAG (Conference of Western Attorneys General), Thomson Reuters and CWAG announced an expansion of their partnership at the recent CWAG annual conference. As part of the expanded collaboration, CWAG and Thomson Reuters will publish the American Indian Law Deskbook addressing the dynamic and evolving field of Indian law and …
