Postcards from the edge – With budgets under pressure, IT heads are scrambling to adapt to consumerisation, contain costs and find ways to capture and manage commercially-crucial data. Neil Hodge tracks the latest trends in legal technology

Harnessing the whirlwind – Linklaters' Alastair Bain argues that leading law firms will increasingly gain competitive advantage via the ability to access, manage and distribute information

Juggling tech – Can you keep all the people happy? Charlotte Edmond reports on how Legal Week research rates law firms' IT

Follow where I lead – Mobile, accessible and global – Norton Rose's Sheila Doyle outlines the firm's ambitious bid to build and integrate flexible information systems that can support its staff across its expanding international network