Reinventing Professionals

Reinventing Professionals

By Ari KaplanBusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnology
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Reinventing Professionals episodes

  • Visualization and the Movement Toward Glanceable Information in eDiscovery
    I spoke with Ian Campbell, the president of iCONECT Development, the maker of the XERA® hosted review platform. He is responsible for sales, business development, product lifecycle development, and legal service provider and partner relations. We discussed the company’s history and the evolution of eDiscovery, the need for litigation support tools to look and feel like familiar technology platforms, and key trends that he will be discussing at the upcoming Ingenious East Coast eDiscovery and Information Governance Retreat, including healthcare metrics, OLED screens, and the personal cloud, among other topics. Campbell predicts that visualization and a movement toward “glanceable information” will impact eDiscovery in 2015.
    10 min
  • Intangible Investors and the Changing Innovation Landscape

    I spoke with Bruce Berman, the founder of Brody Berman Associates, a management consulting and communications firm that supports intellectual property rights holders and service providers, who is also the author of five books, including The Intangible Investor – Profiting from Intellectual Property: Companies’ Most Elusive Assets (CloseUp Media, 2014).

    9 min
  • What You Don't Know About Timekeeping Could Cost You
    I spoke with Peter Zver, the president of British Telecom subsidiary Tikit North America, a provider of technology solutions and services to law and accounting firms around the world. We discussed the importance of timekeeping in improving client relations, growing revenue, and enhancing productivity. Zver also addressed the trends associated with passive timekeeping, the velocity of time capture, and next-generation time entry. He highlighted the forces that are shifting the landscape in this area, such as mobile technologies, alternative fee arrangements, and the need for e-billing transparency.
    10 min
  • How Law Firms Pay For Their New Technology
    I spoke with Dean Morrison, a national business development manager with Summit Funding Group, an independent equipment leasing company focused on supporting legal technology initiatives at small and mid-sized law firms. We discussed how financing for law firms differs from other industries, how the need for financing is evolving given the move toward cloud computing, and the most common mistakes that law firms make when financing their technology.
    11 min
  • Tips for Applying Information Governance Principles
    I spoke with Jim Merrifield, the Director of Information Governance for FileTrail, a records and information management solutions company. He is also the co-founder of the Information Governance Conference, which will have its inaugural event in September. We discussed his role at FileTrail, the genesis of the Information Governance Conference, the inherent challenges associated with producing industry events, and advice for those interested in applying information governance in their organizations. Merrifield suggested that legal teams identify quick IG wins using live metrics, maintain a plan B, and avoid reading too much into best practices.
    10 min
  • Can SharePoint Save the Legal Community?

    I spoke with Doug Horton, the President and CEO of Handshake Software, a leading provider of SharePoint products and services in the legal community. We discussed Handshake’s mission, the impact of its recent acquisition of the Thomson Reuters OneView portal, the impact of SharePoint 2013 on the legal community, and his views on the SharePoint as a DMS debate, among other topics.

    8 min
  • Using KM to Resolve the Efficiency Paradox in Legal
    I spoke with Kingsley Martin, the founder of KMStandards, a provider of contract standards and contract analysis tools. We discussed the genesis of KMStandards, how corporate counsel are embracing knowledge management for drafting agreements, ways that lawyers can overcome the efficiency paradox, and the future trajectory of contract analysis standards.
    10 min

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