PwC and Iron Mountain say 40% of law firms don’t know if they’ve lost data
The Orange Rag
Sensitive and confidential information held by legal firms is at risk of exposure because many do not check whether their employees implement information security measures, according to new research by information management company Iron Mountain and PwC. Four in 10 (42%) law firms surveyed across Europe did not know whether or not they had suffered a data breach in the previous three years. (read the post)
In the Tablet Age, Law Firms Face New IT Threats
Matthew Huisman, Law Technology News
To lawyers anxious to protect their businesses — and their clients — Wolf’s remarks were the latest warning about a growing and significant danger. Law firms across the country face an increasing number of online threats from entities that can range from shadowy American hackers to foreign governments. The advent of smartphones, tablets, and other remote work devices used by lawyers has only increased the risk of unwanted online exposure. (read the post)
You Can’t Make Lawyers into Techies: 3 Lessons About LPM
Pam Woldow, At the Intersection
The initial efforts of IT gurus to develop software-driven templates and dashboards often produced tools of astonishing elegance – and complexity. At demos for firm partners, these wizards showed off all their tools’ technological bells, whistles, nuances and capabilities with effortless facility. The IT experts loved this stuff. Ah…No
But when lawyers tried to: a) learn these technologies; and b) apply them to their daily work while also doing their daily work, their heads exploded. (read the post)
Matter management dominates at LegalTech NY for in-house lawyers, and a few consultants appeared
Rees Morrison, Law Department Management
If you are with a law department, and if you are not interested in document review products – litigation support products, the pickings were slim at LegalTech NY other than matter management (See my post of Jan. 5, 2012: 11 matter management systems with booths at LegalTech.). (read the post)
The Strongest Law Firm Brands in the Land
The American Lawyer
Which law firms have the strongest brands in the United States, the world’s largest legal market? According to a study by Acritas, the brand research company, Skadden, followed by Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin, and Wachtell, lead the big firm pack. (read the article)
Staying Relevant – Part 2: The Initial Pain and Response
Toby Brown, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
You may have noticed I did not refer to the economic shift as going to a buyers’ market. My sense is that the legal market is now in a traditional, competitive market; one where firms have to employ a broad range of business strategies and tactics. In the old sellers’ market, the only differentiator was that of perceived legal skill. Lawyers only needed to market their skills, resulting in clients sending them work. In a competitive market lawyers need to show clients an arsenal of differentiators. (read the post)
Call for 2012 Best Legal Departments Nominees
Anthony Paonita, Corporate Counsel
It’s that time again, when CorpCounsel invites all in-house counsel to nominate their colleagues as one of our Best Legal Departments. Nominate your department here. (click to read article)
An app for in-house counsel who negotiate and settle
Rees Morrison, Law Department Management
A negotiation app that was released recently through Apple and will be released soon for Android (BlackBerry to follow) could help in-house counsel. This offering came to my attention from Don Philbin, Jr.
He wrote “We’ve been studying negotiation patterns empirically…(read the post, watch the video clip)
2011 Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers
Reid My Blog Furthering Innovation in Management, Governance, & Ethics for Lawyers
2011 is the Year of the Tablet. Any tablet. Well, almost any tablet. Although the iPad is the tablet IPad 2 atop most Christmas lists, there are some very good tablets out there that deliver terrific bang for the buck: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tops the list of the many Android-based full-size tablets. (read the entire list)
