IT Management Is Not for Lawyers
"No matter how you currently handle IT, there is no question business law firms rely heavily on technology. Our clients are businesses, many of whom use technology to create new business models or revolutionize existing ones. Consequently, business clients expect the speed and efficiency technology helps facilitate, and they expect their legal providers to meet the standards they have set for themselves. Quite simply, for business lawyers, technology is an essential requirement for successful and profitable client relationships.
But managing computing resources is often time-consuming and expensive for several reasons.
The first reason is the exploding complexity of the systems themselves. Across industries, many organizations have transitioned from the traditional, mainframe-based architecture to distributed systems. With distributed systems, every workstation is a point of management and a point of failure. What software programs are users downloading from the Internet? Are users wasting time or compromising security with spam, spyware and phishing? How many e-mail messages is each user saving in his or her personal folder, and how many of those are duplicates of what another user has retained?"
