After years of barely registering a pulse on The American Lawyer annual associate technology survey, New York’s Proskauer Rose jumped 47 spots in this year’s rankings to land in twenty-sixth place. What happened? The firm attributes the spike to its new technology program, implemented in April, which lets lawyers choose between a laptop computer or a combination of a desktop and an iPad. More than 600 of the firm’s 700 lawyers have opted for the latter. The iPad “is a very versatile device, and our lawyers are using it in all kinds of ways,” says Steven Kayman, a senior litigation partner at Proskauer and head of the firm’s technology committee.
As one of the first firms to roll out the iPad on a mass scale, Proskauer had to do its homework. “There just wasn’t the template out there to copy anyone else,” Kayman says. “We had to specifically create training for our lawyers so that they could get the most out of the devices.” So Malcolm Collingwood, the firm’s head of information services, drafted a manual covering policies such as purchasing apps and personal use of the iPad. The firm also preinstalled apps like the PDF viewer GoodReader, document viewer Documents to Go, and remote access portal Citrix Receiver, and instructed lawyers on how to use them.
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