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Answering Questions About the Latest iManage Upgrades and Add-ons
Attorneys have been trained to reject risk. Many spend their lives advising how to avoid mistakes, or counseling clients who have already made them. However, what is the impact of being risk averse to technology innovation? Firms that do not embrace digital transformation will be squeezed on profitability, growth and future opportunity. This could present…
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How Law Firms Can Better Implement Information Security
What is information security, and how do we do it better? At LegalSEC 2018 I had the privilege of participating on a panel that addressed this topic. Our panel included a Principal Security Architect (myself), an Information Security Officer, and an IT Manager. The takeaway: Different roles in a firm each have a different view…
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Azure Data Protection – An Overview of Your Options
With Microsoft’s cloud solution there seems to be a dizzying array of options to secure data, with new ones coming out all the time. There is Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Information Protection (AIP), Customer Key (new and not fully rolled out), Azure BitLocker, Key Vault, and the list goes on. Some of these solutions…
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Windows 10 – Time to Wake Up the Baby
A year or so ago, a group of us at Adaptive gave a series of presentations up and down the east coast, focusing on the merits and perils of upgrading the legal desktop to Windows 10. One of the first slides in the presentation bore the title “The traditional legal desktop; never wake a sleeping…
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Moving to the next generation of legal desktops!
It’s no secret that 21st century attorneys are highly mobile and practice law from just about anywhere. Gone are the days of working within the office, behind old wooden desks, and going home for the weekend with your files safely stowed in your litigation bag. Today’s lawyer works at Panera and Starbucks. They demand a…
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iManage Work 10 Feature Spotlight – Journaling
Users who accidentally choose “replace original” when saving a document now have the ability to download the document they inadvertently overwrote without having to contact an administrator. iManage Work 10 gives administrators the ability to create backup copies of user’s documents, eliminating the need to perform work on the backend system to retrieve documents that…
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Floor Support – An Essential Element of a DMS Rollout
While the Go Live classroom training is key to a successful DMS roll out, there is significant value in face to face interactions. That’s why, in this article, I will review the benefits of floor support as an essential phase of your DMS roll out. What is the best approach? Various organizations have rolled out…
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Experienced Developers Can Easily Customize iManage Solutions
At ASI, we have been able to develop and deliver customized document management solutions to our clients. iManage makes this easier by providing training, certifications and documentation tools that developers need to provide law firms the flexibility and functionality they require in their DMS. iManage provides documentation for each of the many integration points that…
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DMS Victory by Avoiding 8 Common Mistakes
Winston Churchill was right when he stated, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Over Adaptive’s 20 years in the legal technology industry, we’ve seen our share of mistakes. We’ve found that the following are the eight most common DMS mistakes law firms and corporate legal departments should be sure…
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The Challenge of Law Firm Technology Innovation
There is no shortage of evidence to demonstrate why law firms should be more focused on technology and process innovation. Hardly a day goes by without some focus by the legal world on the importance of innovation. The 2017 Altman Weil ‘Law Firms in Transition’ report states: “Firms that pursue thoughtful efficiency initiatives and stick…
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