Legal Technology Journal

Spring is in the air and issue 9 focuses on new beginnings. Firms are branching out, developing new products and services and opening new offices – in different countries and even in Second Life, where no doubt the weather is always good! These ambitious projects rely on effective technology implementation, which in turn requires IT really understanding the firm’s key priorities and relationships.

Salans’ head of IT updates LTJ on an e-collaboration project that supports the firm’s rapid international expansion and underpins its winning IT strategy.

Ken Heaps explains how cuttingedge technology, highly integrated communications and an outreach team of technologists, support Latham & Watkins’ successful international expansion.

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s IT director outlines the key considerations underpinning a service-oriented approach to client relationship management.

Simmons and Simmons' IT director examines some of the ways that CRM can be used to add real value to the art of client development.

Lewis Silkin’s CRM system is underpinned by close collaboration between the firm’s marketing and IT departments. The firm’s IT director and director of business development describe how it works.

An update on the latest projects that enhance Field Fisher Waterhouse’s reputation as an innovator and early adopter of the latest technology.

The CIO at personal injury specialist Minster Law explains how service-oriented architecture and Enterprise 2.0 is transforming the firm.