One of the questions Major, Lindsey & Africa, the executive search firm, asked in-house respondents in a survey was to check which of eight topics interested them. The third-most checked topic was “New technology for legal departments.” Let me riff on that. Three variations on the central idea of technology…
Here is the latest backgrounder on a leading matter management system’s founder, Joe Bookman of CompInfo (currently the CEO of PinHawk). “CompInfo was incorporated in 1978. Yiorgos Athanassatos and I, along with other early CompInfo people, had worked for CBS News Elections and Surveys. We were part of a small…
Yesterday, Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a private equity firm with some $6 billion in investments, acquired Mitratech, one of the leading providers of software for law department matter management, e-billing, as well as governance, risk and compliance. The press release says that the capital and management experience of Vista will…
The International Legal Technology Organization (ILTSO), founded in early 2011 by a group of people involved in legal technology and law, has published guidelines for best practices and standards for all aspects of law firms’ technology needs. From my quick glance through them, they look meaty. The rest of the…
A strategic plan to make better technology available in your law department makes much more sense to me than overall departmental plans. The software, hardware, and training covered by such a plan falls much more to the control of the department, although with corporate IT embracing it and standardizing it,…
Some bias comes built into these results since 70 percent of 54 departments responding to a recent survey belong to the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). ILTA’s 2011 Law Department Technology Survey gathered data in December 2010. It found that for legal departments with 50 or more attorneys, 78 percent…
Here is the latest backgrounder on a leading matter management system’s founder. I asked these “cottage industrialists” to give some idea about the start of the company, some metrics about the current company, and an usual use of their software. Here is Mitratech’s. “Mitratech started in 1987. When Ladan Behnia…
Rights management software helps companies cope with contract complexity, third party content creators, new distribution platforms, and reporting requirements. According to the website of RSG Median, a provider of this specialized law-related software, “Generally, the process of identifying content and isolating restrictions has been an extremely manual process, one that…
What I have referred to on this blog as “document assembly” software others refer to as “contract automation” software. An article by Gabrielle Walker, the general counsel of a leading provider of contract automation software, Business Integrity, offers three points for comment. The article is in the Met. Corp. Counsel,…
In the “anything else” category of law department software, the 54 respondents to this year’s ILTA survey of its legal department members came up with a range of software. Workshare for document comparison had the most mentions (8) while the other 10 packages in eight categories had only one each:…