Element55 President Ray Deck attended the ILTA 2007 conference with the agenda of meeting members of the legal technology community, learning more about legal technology issues in the sessions, and sharing his experiences with the legal technology community via liveblogging the conference.
Part of the agenda is live-blogging the conference to share insights in legal technology with members of the community that couldn’t be there, attended different sessions, or who are just looking for another take on the session.
In addition to founding Element55, (read the story of our origin in this Mass High Tech piece) Ray is author of seminal thought leadership pieces on Attorney-Centric Time Capture among others (downloadable here).
I attended this session because I knew Stephanie Larson (who I worked with at Gesmer Updegrove and is now at Goodwin Procter) was running the show. The session was mostly a freewheeling Q&A with the experts in the front of the room (including a couple of LN people as well as the client-side speakers from [...]
Major notes from the session:
Systems staff want to consolidate and relocate servers/libraries. Complex library models are being abandoned in favor of unitary or binary systems (open cases vs inactive was suggested)
Upgrades are getting more complicated because of the integrations among systems.
Attorneys want ubiquitous access to all documents (Google cited as a model)
Increasing cry to [...]
I stepped into this session a little late, but got a number of good insights:
First thing I heard about was the importance of “automated mobile event tracking†– basically time capture on mobile devices to capture all those little things done on the fly. Legal55 was mentioned specifically as a solution to the time capture [...]
Law firms are entirely revenue driven. That is the key take-away from this session describing the economic model and levers of law firms for CIOs and IT directors. The challenge posed is how a given technology project is going to help the bottom line.
Profits per Partner (PPP) was described as an “arms race†among the [...]