ask the vendor
What new
careers will
emerge within
law firms
and legal
departments in
the upcoming
years?
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name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marriott Murdock
company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NetDocuments
website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . netdocuments.com
With the consumerization of IT, BYOD and the many other userdriven technologies focusing on mobility and collaboration, there
is a need to manage and protect the users and the data. Not to
control them through IT mandates, but rather to orchestrate the
many moving pieces of information and gadgets moving in and
out of the firm through client collaboration and an increasingly
digital workforce.
This "orchestration" of users, devices and data will likely not be
a role seen in traditional IT departments, but rather it will be a liaison
between IT and the end users — attorneys, paralegals, partners
and staff who are actually using the devices and demanding more
freedom with their technology. This "conductor" will be a person and
position that is two parts technician and one part interdepartmental
manager across the historical siloes of end users and IT systems. The
lines between these two groups is beginning to blur more and more,
and the need is increasing for both to work in harmony to ultimately
provide the user-friendly tools available in the market without
breaching firm policy or security.
