Perhaps Law.com was just fishing for traffic by choosing a controversial headline (something we at 3 Geeks would never condone!) but yesterday’s article, misleadingly entitled AFAs Trending Down in U.S. and U.K., got a lot of attention. To be fair, the data gathered in the 9th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, does indeed show a decrease
LPM – Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Part 5 of 5
This post is the final part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
Conclusion
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By now it is obvious there will be no return to the glory days of an ever-expanding legal market and steadily rising hourly rates. Legal
LPM – Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Part 4 of 5
This post is the fourth part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
Legal Project Management 2.0
The next generation of Legal Project Management software (LPM 2.0) extends and expands on the Planning and Budgeting capabilities of earlier products, and it includes tools to help
LPM – Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Part 3 of 5
This post is the third part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
Legal Project Management 1.0
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Even before the economic slump a handful of legal technology vendors recognized an opportunity to help firms better understand and budget for their non-hourly
LPM – Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Part 2 of 5
This post is the second part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
The Tipping Point
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There is no longer any doubt that the legal market has fundamentally changed in recent years. Every firm felt the weight of their clients’ demands
LPM – Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Part 1 of 5
This post is the first part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
Legal Project Management, why now?
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Project Management, which has been around since the 1950s, is defined on Wikipedia as “the discipline of planning,
Friends Don't Let Friends Aggregate Alone
You’ve all read/heard my take on aggregators here at 3 Geeks, and how there was a time when having access to information was in and of itself a competitive advantage. Simply knowing what your competitors or market were doing was currency. We all have more access to information today than any of us dreamed was
Library Catch 22: Facing Cutbacks and Shutdowns While Demand Is Way Up
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Very interesting story from The Daily Beast over the weekend that talks about the situation we have with public libraries in the United States, and the delimma of cutting services and budgets during a time when demand for these services is booming. In her story, “Can Libraries Survive in an Era
Are IT and Library "Logical Partners" in Leveraging Library Assets?
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A friend of mine pointed me to an article from Quidlibet Research, Inc.’s, Nina Cunningham, entitled “Leveraging the Assets of the Law Library.” I read it… then I read it again… then I read it again. Each time finding different things to agree, and disagree with. I
The Ghost in the iCloud
Apple gets a lot of flack for creating a closed platform that economically locks its users into their products. After all, if you’ve already spent $200K on iOS apps, why would you switch to Android or Windows phones or tablets and have to repurchase all of that software? It’s a reasonable argument, but it totally