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By Carolyn Casey | Posted February 8, 2012 |
Law firm lateral hire and merger rumors seem to be almost as constant as the latest NBA trade rumors. There’s even a webpage devoted to lateral hire announcements on The American Lawyer site, aptly called The Churn. As firms try to grow revenue in 2012, they plan to poach talent with abandon to get into [...]
Tags: information management, lateral hires, Law firm, law firm information, mid market, records management
By Carolyn Casey | Posted November 4, 2011 |
28 – It’s not a gigantic number, but when you hear that it’s the percent of law firms who say they are already “paperless” or that plan to be within five years, you go, “wow.” At least that’s what we said when we saw this result in a recent Law Firm Information Management Benchmark Survey [...]
Tags: Law firm, paperless
By Carolyn Casey | Posted August 16, 2011 |
Have you ever noticed the monkeys sitting on law firm executive administrators and records managers’ backs? It’s not too fun for the administrators, but the monkeys are there, silently perched. Probably the largest is the “we don’t have a records management policy” monkey. His existence is usually acknowledged with some degree of shame and embarrassment. [...]
Tags: classified, cost savings, documents, efficiency, information management, Law firm, records management, records managers, secure destruction
By Pamela C. Barker | Posted July 6, 2011 |
The landscape of companies’ relationships with their law firms is changing dramatically. More work is being brought in house versus following the traditional model of outsourcing to outside counsel. While there are many advantages to leveraging this model, including retaining IP, increasing responsiveness, knowledge of where pertinent data resides inside their company, perhaps none is [...]
Tags: chain of custody, discovery, information management, law firms, Office of General Counsel, records management
By Carolyn Casey | Posted June 9, 2011 |
Law firm information management is hard. COOs, CIOs, chief legal administrators and records managers face two-headed monsters in every discussion about information management. And we’re not talking about over-bearing partners here. Monster #1: The Paper and Digital Factory Paper documents are born and re-born every day inside law firms, right along with electronic documents. [...]
Tags: American Bar Association, archive, CIO, client records, content management, COO, destruction, discovery, email, information management, law firms, records managers
