I don’t know how I missed it, but last week, Jones Day laid off 65 IT workers. Most of them were from my home town of Columbus, Ohio. [UPDATE: It appears the bulk of cuts were in Cleveland, not C-bus. Still Buckeyes though. š ] As I began reading the article, my
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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 itā¦ then I read it againā¦ then I read it again. Each time finding different things to agree, and disagree with. I
The Consumerization of IT. Bring Your Own Device. Personal Cloud Storage. These buzzwords have sent IT departments the world over into a tizzy. In fact, 37% of all IT related articles written in the last 2 years have been about one of these three concepts. (I totally made that stat up.) We, as IT people,
One of the listservs I joined early in my law library career was Teknoids (way back in 1997 or 1998.) Although it is made up primarily of techies in law school libraries and IT departments, I still love the conversations that go on. The conversation on what was titled “Everybody’s Favorite Topicā¦” was on what
My first few posts on this blog were about the coming end of Corporate Information Technology, or the CorpTechPocalypse as I coined it. Nearly 18 months have passed. The world around IT has changed substantially, but like the dinosaurs shortly after the meteor impact, IT itself is still desperately trying to understand its role
At work I happily drink from the single cup coffee machine in the pantry, but thatās not coffee so much as a speedy caffeine delivery mechanism. On the weekends, when I have time to make coffee, I Make Coffee. I put the kettle on to boil, then I pour a half a cup or so
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I had the privilege of being on a panel with three amazing people at LegalTech’s CIO Forum this week to discuss how consumerization of technology is affecting the law firm technology strategy. Phillip Hoare from Wilson Sonsini really made me think differently about the topic because he came at the scenario about 180 degrees
Many ground breaking, earth shattering, paradigm shifting solutions have begun with the words, āwouldnāt it be really great ifā¦ā Great ideas and solutions require people of vision with the ability to see beyond the current reality and dream fantastic possibilities for the future. Unfortunately, many stupid, dead-end, wastes of time have started exactly the same
Oh how I long for the days when I would boot up my IBM 8086 PC off of the dual-floppy drives and not have to answer any security questions in order to get to my word processing program. Granted, it was slowā¦ but it was simple. It wasn’t connected to a fast Internet connectionā¦ but
