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Intranets and Extranets in Law Firms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Martin White
Martin White
Affiliation:
Martin White is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd, which he established in 1999. Martin consults on intranet strategy and the specification and selection of content management applications. His clients have included the Bank for International Settlements (Basel), the International Monetary Fund (Washington), the International Labour Organisation (Geneva), and the UK Environment Agency. His interests in legal information date back to his days at Butterworths Telepublishing at the time of the launch of LEXIS in the early 1980s. Martin is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Management and writes a monthly column on intranet management issues for the US magazine EContent. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Online Information Conference 2002 and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield. Martin.white@intranetfocus.com, www.intranetfocus.com
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Extract

In early 2002, Legal Week, in conjunction with PA Consulting Group, published a survey of how the major law firms in the UK are using IT as a management and competitive weapon. The survey, targeted at both managing partners and IT directors of the top 100 law firms in the UK, was carried out during the latter part of 2001. An article highlighting the main results of the survey was published in Legal IT (www.legalit.net) and reported that law firms currently spend between 2% and 10% of their turnover on IT each year, the average being 5.5%. Client portal and knowledge management (KM) are the two areas of greatest activity in the near future (cited by 27% and 30% of the survey sample respectively).

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 2002 , pp. 11 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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