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Succeed at Post-Merger IT Integration
Statistics have shown that, no matter how much planning goes into the IT integration part of a merger, the process rarely goes smoothly. A whopping 95 percent of IT integrations take longer than expected. One critical early move in a merger is creating an integration team that includes both IT and business executives. This kind of collaboration helps integration team members perceive how computer systems contribute to the business, says Marsha Stein, chief information officer of law firm Ropes & Gray.
Georgia Courts in Dire Need of Tech Overhaul, Report Says
Technology upgrades are desperately needed to synchronize a disjointed court information system, according to a long-awaited report released Tuesday to the Georgia Supreme Court. The report, a year in the making, concluded that widening gaps in technology have prevented the state's more than 1,100 trial courts from creating a statewide or even a circuitwide system that allows criminal data to be shared electronically, possibly compromising public safety and homeland security.
Making Forensics Elementary at Your Firm
Computer forensics is becoming more central to discovery. Notes one expert, "Even a small business has a 20 GB hard drive these days." Writer Christy Burke registers the growth of an emerging industry as she digs up caveats for law firms choosing forensics "experts" and vendors.
Defendants in Righthaven Case Don't Want In-House Counsel Sanctioned
A federal judge in Nevada has set a hearing for today to rule on whether Righthaven, the so-called "copyright troll," and its in-house lawyers should be sanctioned for misleading the court. In an odd twist, the defendant in the case has stepped forward to argue on behalf of two in-house lawyers, saying responsibility should fall on Righthaven's CEO.
Internet 'Data Scraping': A Primer for Counseling Clients
Anthony J. Dreyer and Jamie Stockton of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom write that the technological explosion that has created a vast repository of "publicly available" information on the Web has also made it far easier for third parties to extract this data for commercial sale and use - and to do so for free and without authorization.
Networking and Storage: Small Firm Options
It's possible to build a network fileserver to handle the needs of a five-person practice for as little as $4,000. That's for a fileserver, a network operating system such as Microsoft Windows 2003 Small Business Server and all services. By tapping "smart leasing" approaches, this should be affordable for most small practices. But what if it's not? Network attached storage -- the marriage of external hard drive systems and network cards -- may be an answer.
Top-Level Domains: Fourth Horseman of the Tech Apocalypse
In the fourth installment of the series covering the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011, Douglas Wood of Reed Smith concludes with what may be a monumental change involving top-level domains (TLD) on the internet. With a new TLD recently introduced, .xxx, and more on the way in the near future, Wood ponders the impact on corporate counsel.
Kick-Starting Information Governance With Analytics
At ARMA International's 2012 Conference, records managers, like legal professionals, were interested in how advanced technologies such as content analytics can help govern information responsive to business and litigation needs.Trending Stories
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