Tech Dirt brings us today’s joke – relevant to the legal domain – namely the Patent System....

Introducing a Document Management System (DMS) to a corporation – not a law firm – brings a new level of challenge to the business analysis.  In a corporation, there might not be a pre-defined taxonomy to organize everyone’s information. A law firm almost always has an existing process to bill for services grouped by client, [...]...

Notables and Quotables in 2012 •   Overall firm technology spending – as a percentage of firm revenue and based on per attorney spend – is still down from pre-2009 economic downturn. •   63% of all responding firms spend between 2-4% of total firm revenue on technology indicating a new tech budget ‘normal’. • [...]...

The Cersys Blog is one year old today: Here are the top twelve posts from the past year. Troubleshooting is a favorite topic, regularly racking up the most visits on full articles.  Five of the top posts are purely troubleshooting. Two articles are not ‘about’ iManage WorkSite at their core: technology-for-law analysis about the costs [...]...

The real risk of allowing substantive content to fester in mailboxes: being liable for the cost of finding the pertinent content. Move it to matter-centric storage and purge those mailboxes regularly. Ban PST files entirely. “We are currently undertaking a detailed review of the proposals. It appears you propose an annual review of approximately 100 mailboxes [...]...

Last week a major sales win for iManage WorkSite was announced, as they beat out competing solutions to get the 1,300-seat contract with the UK law firm BLM. The efficient and smooth integration with existing applications and Email Management was a key factor in the decision. UK law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP (BLM) has [...]...