D Casey Flaherty

January 25, 2013 | Legaltech News

The audit developed by D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, to assess the technology skills of prospective outside counsel is "arbitrary," "unorthodox," and raises a number of questions and presumptions, admits Flaherty.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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January 28, 2013 | Daily Report Online

By D. Casey Flaherty

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February 26, 2013 | Legaltech News

Many law firms purport to know how much time was required to accomplish a specific task and how much the client owes the firm for that work. Trust, but verify their accuracy, writes Kia Motors in-house counsel D. Casey Flaherty.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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January 24, 2013 | Legaltech News

Kia Motors America corporate counsel, D. Casey Flaherty, tests a hypothesis that outside counsel are deficient in their use of technology, which results in unnecessary busywork and needless costs. Thus far, his audits have confirmed his thesis.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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January 25, 2013 | Legaltech News

D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, began his career in Big Law and admits to having a profound and enduring respect for his former colleagues, but he was never able to reconcile himself to some of his former firm's standard operating procedures, which helped form the basis of Flaherty's tech audit for outside counsel.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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May 02, 2013 | Legaltech News

Pen and paper is an inferior option for executing legally binding agreements. Yet a recent study commissioned by Adobe Systems Inc. found that 98 percent of surveyed managers "still rely on hard copy in the 'last mile' to deliver contracts to get clients and customers to sign on the dotted line." Such madness needs to cease. Electronic signatures are an idea whose time has long since come. [MORE]

By D. Casey Flaherty

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September 04, 2013 | Legaltech News

Casey Flaherty partners with Suffolk University Law School to expand the Kia Motors tech audit to the legal community.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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October 01, 2013 | Legaltech News

Who will step up to the plate to standardize e-discovery costs prediction?

By D. Casey Flaherty

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January 25, 2013 | Legaltech News

As a practical matter, I am not sure that it is necessary to understand why avoidable inefficiencies persist in the legal services outside counsel provides to corporations. But I can't help but indulge in some amateur sociology because my assumptions affect my approach in auditing the technology skills of outside counsel. [MORE]

By D. Casey Flaherty

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March 27, 2013 | Legaltech News

Confirmation of bias for D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, is an underappreciated source of joy. Flaherty reviews four stories, that reinforce his preconceptions of lawyers' time and billing practices.

By D. Casey Flaherty

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