Legal KM

lecocqassociate has selected Aderant Expert as their new practice management system, making them Aderant’s first Swiss client.

Based in Geneva, Switzerland, lecocqassociate specializes in regulatory banking, collective investments, corporate finance, private equity and more. The boutique firm has grown tremendously since its inception in 2007 to approximately 30 attorneys, with additional offices in Malta, Dubai and another opening soon in New York

In addition to the core Aderant Expert solution, lecocqassociate will be implementing Expert On the Go for mobile use and Found Time to help recover lost billable hours

The 2015 ILTA Technology Industry Survey reported that 51% of law firms have invested in business intelligence, putting the legal industry ahead of the general business community.

Based on interviews and usability sessions with over 100 law firms, Aderant developed an entirely new user interface based on easy-to-use configurable screen tiles. Aderant Product Manager Derek Schutz commented, “Our design goal was to enable anyone at the firm to use BI. In the past, only a few highly technical individuals within the firm could use BI tools. Spotlight enables non-technical staff to use and leverage the power of business intelligence technology.”

That ease enables wider staff adoption of BI, but it’s Spotlight’s Impact Technology that will drive law firm managers’ desire to use business intelligence. Spotlight Analytics shines a light on specific business performance issues and with just a click of the Impact Technology button, Spotlight links into the Aderant Expert module for the user to take immediate corrective action.

Ayelette Robinson's comment to my post earlier this week on my disappointment with the direction Knowledge Management has taken in law firms. Ayelette took my challenge of calling me an ignorant **** and telling me why my argument doesn't hold water. There are others out there telling me I'm wrong – not as bluntly as Ayelette, of course – such as Mark Gould and Ken Adams.

See the graphic below to get a sense of how the intranet fits together with the digital workplace.

For more information on user research and usability testing for law firms, read a sample of the report, Creating a Successful Law Firm Intranet, written by us (Nina Platt, Laurie Southerton and Amy Witt) based on our experience in working with law firm intranets and published by the Ark Group.  The sample includes the Table of Contents, Executive Summary, Chapter 4: Research – Critical for Success, and the case study, Chapter 4: Research for Firm’s Intranet Design.

In their own words, Getty Images wanted to build “a community-based, interactive platform to transform the way employees share and receive information at Getty Images.”

With Getty Images’ enterprise social software platform, every employee has a homepage where he or she can access links to company systems (Learning Management System, Performance Management, Travel, Expense Reimbursement, etc.), internal social networking tools (microblogging, blogs, profiles) and personal accounts (email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). This is made simple by Socialtext’s embrace of OpenSocial, an open web standard that makes it easy to surface applications and content of any kind inside of widgets that people can customize on a personal homepage.

We are excited to introduce the Socialtext platform, which we have branded ‘Mixer’ to our employees.”