I just did a speech for the Association of Legal Administrators on Law Firm Security.  I took a much wider view of security as anything that can cause risk to the law firm. I have a downloadable document for you to use.  Feel free to email this out to anyone you want.  You might want [...]

Longtime document management expert leads the StarLaw product line ATLANTA – August 16, 2011 – ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for law and professional services firms, today announced that the company has appointed Doug Geller as managing director of ADERANT StarLaw. Geller joins ADERANT with more than 17 years of [...]

Thursday, 18 August 2011 Combined Firm Delivers Best Practices in Consulting, Engineering, & Software for Document Management Systems. Concord, CA and Plantation, FL– August 04, 2011 – iEnvision Technology, a leader in Information Lifecycle Management consulting, today announced the acquisition of Geller Data Solutions, Inc. (GDSI), incorporating its professional services and software development groups into [...]

Aderant has been making several big moves lately.  Most recently is a new deal to take on the Client Profiles system which will supplement its billing system.  Client Profiles is a great system, but had a weak billing system component, based on the old FSLI billing system.  Aderant fixes this, having one of the best [...]

For the last few years, Google has reiterated that its sole focus was on mobility.  The Android has competed well against the Iphone and has crushed the Palm and Blackberry market shares.  It seems only logical for Google to take a page out of the Apple playbook and start building its own line of cellular [...]

HP, the largest seller of PC’s in the world, made a huge decision to spin off or sell its pc/laptop/tablet line so it could focus on software, servers, networking, integration and other high margin products.  IBM sold off its pc division over 8 years ago to Lenovo and never looked back. IBM has increased business by [...]

It is the largest Legal software acquisition in history.  HP buys Autonomy, which owns many software packages used at law firms today.  The ever popular Imanage.  Several Ediscovery and Knowledge Management solutions.  It is a very bold move.  One that puts HP in the Legal Software game.  And the various software offerings give HP a [...]

It was hard to imagine a few years ago that we would ever have this discussion.  However now with the Xoom and IPAD it seems laptops have become less desirable.  Gartner noted recently that laptops may not be meeting the social-networking demands of users.  However I think it is more to do with the coolness [...]

It used to be that Legal IT and the Lawyers stood on opposite sides of the fence when it came to running a law firm.  That is no longer the case.  Gone is the Us and Them mentality that has overrun the law environment for too many years.  Certainly, the smartest corporations realized long ago the [...]

One of my biggest assets has always been the ability to select great vendors to work with and managing projects using their expert services.  Gone are the days that you need to be an expert at everything relating to IT.  As an IT manager or director, you don’t need to be a Jack of All [...]