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Is Legal Project Management Going Mainstream?

Jordon Furlong charts recent press on legal project management and thinks it’s about to burst on center stage.  He writes: The day of the haphazard lawyer, who pursues a solution by intuition, experience and the loosest possible timetable, is drawing … Continue reading

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Why Process Improvement Should Matter To All Lawyers

One thing is now clear: for serial litigants, developing efficient processes for handling e-discovery is critical. Joan Goodchild at Computerworld sings a common refrain heard at the The Sedona Conference Institute e-discovery conference I attended last week: NBC Universal is … Continue reading

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Back From The Sedona Conference On E-Discovery

I apologize for the dearth of recent posts. I was traveling last week to attend the Fourth Annual Getting Ahead of the eDiscovery Curve Program presented by The Sedona Conference Institute. I had the honor of sharing notes with dozens … Continue reading

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Serve It Up Precisely

Chuck Hollis thinks IT managers have paid too much attention to costs for hardware and software, and not enough attention to internal IT processes. He argues in favor of less precision and more speed, since the “time to serve” — … Continue reading

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Designing Software for the Workflow

There’s an interesting article on Customer Relations Management (CRM) software in this month’s California Lawyer.  It does a nice job describing what these applications do,  as well as some of their limitations.  And I was both surprised and pleased to … Continue reading

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