Technology Strategies for Law
July 12, 2012
Protecting Today’s Transactional Lawyer
The precision and care required to draft transactional documents can conflict with the time and billing pressures of today’s legal market. The risks for transactional lawyers intensify when you couple those pressures with the increased complexities of mobility and the varying devices used to edit or exchange documents. Lawyer and legal technology expert Robert Blacksberg and ALM market expert Lynn Frances explore new workflows and best practices to protect against these risks.
This session covered today’s workflow trends, the risks associated with these trends and technology solutions including:
Robert Blacksberg, Principal, Blacksberg Associates, LLC
Lynn Frances, Principal, eDiscovery Writer, Inc.
Bonnie Reid, Director, Marketing, Microsystems
To watch, first register at http://info.law.com/Microsystems_Registration.html. Then view the webinar at http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&eventid=508015&sessionid=1&key=E145E82210EF42D07A7670836960E08F&eventuserid=68520232. Please note that the original webinar qualified for CLE only for those who watched when it was presented.
Metadata is a fact of (document) life, so let’s deal with it. Lawyers are relying more and more on track changes and document properties to collaborate and expedite their workflow. Discover how to coexist with the metadata menace –– remove it when you want it out, leave it alone when you want it in. Hear how technologists and fee earners are coping with the data within the data.
Presented at ILTA 2012 AC2DC with Glynn Fluitt and Kenneth Henry – Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
The PowerPoint presented at the session can be viewed at:
http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/productfiles/productfiles/914334/APP14.pdf.
A common question on everyone’s mind is whether the iPad will replace laptops. What are the capabilities of both devices? Is it feasible for users to perform their daily work on an iPad? We’ll identify which users might be candidates to use iPads instead of laptops, explaining the applications, tools and support they might need. Differing viewpoints will give you the information you need to provide an accurate answer when your partners ask about using iPads.
Presented at ILTA 2012 – AC2DC – Monday with David Neesen – Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger, LLP and Toby Adamson – Microsystems
The PowerPoint presented at the session can be viewed at:
http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/productfiles/productfiles/912310/DASPG1.pdf
Portal technologies, now a common resource, gather and display information and documents from the many constituencies of corporations, organizations and professional practices. They promise to distribute responsibility for gathering, editing and refreshing the content.
Portal leadership requires a combination of a thorough understanding of the work and roles, documents and information of each part of an organization, together with fluency in the tools, methods and technologies that support the system.
At the law firm, Drinker Biddle and Reath, beginning in 2001 as Program Director and later Director, Practice and Project Services, directed the acquisition and deployment of a firm-wide portal using Plumtree’s portal product. Starting in 2006, directed deployment of the portal in Microsoft SharePoint, first in SharePoint 2003 and later in SharePoint 2007.
Both the initial portal deployment in Plumtree and migration to SharePoint involved work throughout the Firm’s practice groups and administrative departments, as well as close coordination with the information systems engineering staff responsible for installing, configuring, customizing and maintaining the the portals.
As the technology matured and the firm grew, especially with the 2007 merger of Gardner Carton and Douglas into Drinker Biddle & Reath, the portal became the opening page for each user’s desktop. Worked with the communications and marketing leadership to develop a front page organization and presentation, assisted by consultants from XMLaw (now part of Thomas Reuters’ HubbardOne group). The communications and marketing group took responsibility for daily updates of the front page content.
Designed, implemented and trained users for custom document collections, such as court filings for complex cases. These applications connected a constituency of lawyers and support staff with a highly focused interest in the content of the collection and the time, effort and skill required to support it.
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