Guest Comments

Comment: ILTACON in person-was it worth the risk?

Comment: ILTACON in person-was it worth the risk?

For those who didn’t attend ILTACON in person this year due to the (again) surging COVID numbers, many of the large vendors like Litera, iManage pulling out and logistical problems
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Comment: Five stages of developing a solid business case for legal tech

Comment: Five stages of developing a solid business case for legal tech

By Matt Gould, head of legal transformation at ContractPodAi  With digital technology evolving at such a rapid pace, it’s no surprise that the general feeling around change – in the highest echelons of companies
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Comment: Why legal professionals can’t afford to keep making cybersecurity mistakes

Comment: Why legal professionals can’t afford to keep making cybersecurity mistakes

By Tim Sadler, CEO and co-founder of Tessian Would you be shocked to learn that more than half of legal professionals have sent at least one email to the wrong
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Comment: Is your firm in the driving seat against cyber threats?

Comment: Is your firm in the driving seat against cyber threats?

By Steve Whiter, director of Appurity Not a day seems to go by these days without another report of a ‘hacking’ incident of some sort creating copy in the relevant media.
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Comment: Could better work allocation be the antidote to law’s hidden mental health crisis?

Comment: Could better work allocation be the antidote to law’s hidden mental health crisis?

By William Dougherty, founder of Capacity A 2019 survey from the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) provides a troubling window into the wellbeing of junior lawyers in the UK. Some 93% of
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Comment: Process – the Stabilizing Force of the Three Legged Stool

Comment: Process – the Stabilizing Force of the Three Legged Stool

By Vince Neicho, Vice President, Legal Services at Integreon At the tail end of last year, I wrote an article on how lawyers have come around and embraced technology. I
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Comment: Digital skills – learning opportunities for lawyers?

Comment: Digital skills – learning opportunities for lawyers?

By Mike McGlinchey People, process and technology is the mantra that is often used to support the drive for innovation. Law is a people business, and we are good at
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Comment: If You Think the Shift to Remote Work Was Difficult, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Comment: If You Think the Shift to Remote Work Was Difficult, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

By Bill Bice, CEO of nQ Zebraworks The pandemic put legal IT in the spotlight. Suddenly, every firm had to switch to remote work, all at once, overnight. I was
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Comment: BigLaw – Does prestige equal quality?  Does it have to?

Comment: BigLaw – Does prestige equal quality? Does it have to?

By Nathan Cemenska A recent analysis out of LegalVIEW—the largest body of legal performance data in the world—indicated that Am Law 50 firms tended to gain market share from 2019
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Comment: Aderant Virtual Momentum 2021 – The session highlights; product updates & latest trends

Comment: Aderant Virtual Momentum 2021 – The session highlights; product updates & latest trends

Christy Burke outlines the key topics and themes discussed at Aderant Virtual Momentum 2021 The Aderant Virtual Momentum 2021 online conference projected energy, positivity and innovation.  Before the pandemic, Aderant’s conferences had
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Comment: Africa’s legal tech revolution is on course to change the continent

Comment: Africa’s legal tech revolution is on course to change the continent

By Steven De Backer Covid-19 is accelerating the rise of technology and innovation, not just in Africa, but globally. At Afriwise, we have almost 3000 lawyers in our network from
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Comment: For Law Firms, Voice Quality Matters Now More Than Ever

Comment: For Law Firms, Voice Quality Matters Now More Than Ever

By Dominic Norton, Sales Director, Spitfire Network Services Ltd – providing quality voice over IP since 2008 There is some light at the end of the COVID tunnel for the
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Comment: Is the legal industry about personal relationships or B2B relationships?  We’re about to find out

Comment: Is the legal industry about personal relationships or B2B relationships? We’re about to find out

By Nathan Cemenska Calling the legal industry “relationship-based” is cliché, but that’s because it’s true. Historically, legal has been characterized by “A2A” relationships (attorney to attorney)—where individual inside counsel “hire
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Comment: Ideas from Microsoft Ignite 2021

Comment: Ideas from Microsoft Ignite 2021

By Peter Buck “Microsoft seeks to power the global workforce through Teams, push the Cloud everywhere, and distribute application building deep into all companies.” Ignite 2021 was a fifteen-billion-dollar bag
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Comment: Poor Document Quality – Does it matter?

Comment: Poor Document Quality – Does it matter?

By Joanne Humber, marketing consultant, LCT4 I recently posted on LinkedIn my experience of receiving a badly formatted document that I had been sent by the solicitor acting for the
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Comment: Has the Legal Industry Reached a Client-Centered Tipping Point?

Comment: Has the Legal Industry Reached a Client-Centered Tipping Point?

By Tim Dinehart, chief operating officer at ABC Legal Services In his best-selling book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell challenges the assumption that social change happens slowly over a long period of
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Comment: Practice analysis as a tool to manage the future

Comment: Practice analysis as a tool to manage the future

By Pieter van der Hoeven, co-founder and CEO of Clocktimizer Most of us have felt the impact of Covid-19 on our agendas. For the majority of legal professionals, the pandemic has
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