What Do Dinosaurs, Electric Drills and Technology Have in Common?
Those who are unwilling or unable to adapt, like dinosaurs, will find it difficult to survive.
Information Governance: The Foundation of E-Discovery Projects
If there is one cause of consternation among law firms, consultants and service providers –those who mostly collect and process ESI—it is a project in which the client organization has poor information governance practices. I am reminded of this because a few weeks ago at The Master’s Conference in Washington, D.C., I told the audience that information governance practices are...
Humans are the Weak Link in Technology Assisted Review
There’s been debate throughout the legal industry about which software product is the superior tool for conducting technology-assisted review (TAR). I’m no data scientist. In fact, I’m not a scientist at all. I’m not a programmer or a linguist. No PhD; no computer science degree; Heck, I’m not even a particularly highly qualified technical person. Nope. I’m just an operations...
Legal Operations Needs to Drive Legal Innovation
It seems like everywhere you turn today people are asking who is going to lead innovation. People frequently ask me what’s the best way to drive the adoption of project management principles in the legal business, and my answer has invariably been that any real change must be driven by clients (i.e., the corporations shelling out $300 billion annually for...
You Know It’s Bad When the Court Decision Has a Table of Contents
Corporate legal operations folks need to pay attention to this Court Decision One of the things that has always puzzled me is how some of the smartest people in the world could behave so irresponsibly when it comes to legal matters. I’m not a lawyer, and granted, I’ve worked around lawyers long enough that some of their tendencies if not...
Cultivating a Culture of Project Success
As far as I can tell, at the most basic level, all organizations exist to do two things: activities intended to sustain daily operations, and activities designed to improve and grow the business. I don’t know any organization in which the purpose or goal is to drive the business into the ground. For clarity, the first of these things, operations,...
Managing Compliance and Information Governance Risks
Most CEOs and corporate leaders would say that a core mission of any company is to maximize shareholder value and/or protect the company’s assets. With nearly every “document” in the world being created on a computer today and a company’s information clearly being one if it’s assets, why wouldn’t information governance or, as they say in corporate legal circles, compliance,...
GDPR Invades the World (and your inbox)
I think GDPR is a Movement If you’re data footprint on the world is anything like mine, in recent weeks you’ve been bombarded by updates to data privacy policies from every company or site that has your email address. Frankly, I don’t think I’ve seen movement on an legal issue like this since the Y2K panic nearly 20 years ago....
Time Management Does Not Work
As part of a training series within his organization, a good friend recently asked me to speak to up-and-coming leaders about time management. I begin to research the issue and I keep coming across materials suggesting that teaching time management is a waste of time. The fact is –and I guess I already knew this and my research merely confirms...
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