Last year was a very good year for me and my team. At the beginning of 2008 the team was still very much reactive in terms of the services (or lack of) we offered. By the end of the year we had launched our curriculum – now offering a dozen new courses. Our evaluation results have exceeded our wildest expectations and the feedback from the business (right up to Partner level) has been fantastic. I can pretty confidently say that we upped our game in 2008 and we now deliver more value than ever. So why do I still feel a little uneasy? The economic downturn in the second half of 2008 signalled the end of more than a decade of law firm growth – and of course law firm IT department growth. Many firms have made redundancies. No matter how secure you think you are, no one is bullet proof in the current climate. Can you honestly say that you haven't looked around the department and considered who would go before you? It's a horrible thought, but human nature when you have bills to pay (at this point I'm pondering the possibility that it's just me who's had this thought and I'm going to burn in hell). Everyone is now thinking about strategies for increasing visibility and delivering more value. Read more...
Legal IT news update
Today we added the following legal IT news links:
- Wave Software Launches Wave University Webinar Series
- Remove costs, improve control and reduce the risk of disruption to your business with RightFax 9.4
- RightFax webinar on Thursday
- Kroll Ontrack enhances awards-winning review tool to better empower e-discovery review teams
- Peak Discovery Hires Former In-house Attorneys to Fill Regional Sales Manager Roles
- Intercom Enterprises Unveil New Workforce Modelling Capabilities By Partnering With HumanConcepts
- Tweetdeck Helps Twitter Users Organize Tweets
- Not Only the President Faces a BlackBerry Challenge
- File Not Found? Enter Computer Forensics
- American Legal Technology Insider Issue #6 Available
- ThompsonWest Webinar Series
- Wikis In Law Firms
Check our news section for the details.
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