Anthony Paonita

October 01, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

In the latest edition of our annual Who Represents America's Biggest Companies survey, we see that the economic crisis has led to changes in the client-firm relationship—in lots of little ways.

By Anthony Paonita

11 minute read

October 05, 2000 | Law.com

As lawyers' dependence on the Web and e-mail grows, they may want to replace dial-up modem Internet access from home with "broadband," or fast Internet access that is always connected. But their choices are limited. Cable modem service and DSL are the two main options for those who'd rather not pay a couple of thousand dollars a month for a T1 line. Both of them have their quirks.

By Anthony Paonita

7 minute read

March 15, 2001 | Law.com

The information superhighway is littered with the carcasses of discontinued computer "tablets." But mobile professionals need a computer they can carry around, whip out, and scribble on. Smaller computers necessarily have fewer features, and the ones they have make or break them as products. Meet some new tablets that may be winners.

By Anthony Paonita

6 minute read

February 21, 2001 | Law.com

Some lawyers have an almost mystical attachment to WordPerfect, despite its fading fortunes in a Word world. Turbulent "Word versus WordPerfect" chat room discussions reveal the war out there for the hearts, minds and credit cards of lawyers. After a few days with both software suites, Anthony Paonita can forcefully say that, well, er, both have their strengths and weaknesses.

By Anthony Paonita

8 minute read

November 14, 2001 | Law.com

Nothing concentrates the mind like disaster, and the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., prompted information technology types and their corporate overseers to review their recovery plans. Shockingly, some had none. Others weathered the crisis pretty well and managed to get up and running quickly. So what's the lesson? Mobility and redundancy are good. Centralization isn't.

By Anthony Paonita

6 minute read

January 11, 2001 | Law.com

These days a CEO has to worry about the impact of globalization, the Internet, a speech to be delivered at the Davos World Economic Forum, and whether any of his company's factories is exploiting workers in Burkina Faso. It's all part of a natural progression, argues Yale's Jeffrey Garten in his book "The Mind of the C.E.O."

By Anthony Paonita

5 minute read

June 01, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

We read submissions. We talked. We argued. And, in a rare show of unanimity, we chose our top legal department for 2008.

By Anthony Paonita

1 minute read

December 05, 2006 | Law.com

By Anthony Paonita

3 minute read

June 10, 2005 | Legaltech News

Since its debut in 2001, Apple has continually improved its OS X, charging users more than $100 each year or so to have the latest. The first versions made X a workable, stable system, but Apple's finally taking advantage of OS X's Unix-based solidity and the speed of newer Mac hardware. The newest version, "Tiger," sports a new disk search system, dubbed 'Spotlight,' and also adds RSS support and slicker mail and videoconferencing capabilities.

By Anthony Paonita

3 minute read

November 10, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

By Anthony Paonita

4 minute read