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What Managing Partners Misunderstand About IT Risk
At 8:15 on a Monday morning, everything looks normal. Attorneys are opening files, staff is moving matters forward and no one is thinking about IT risk. A few hours later,…
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How IT Friction Eats into Law Firm Profitability
When law firm leaders talk about profitability, the conversation usually starts with rates, billable hours, staffing, realization and collections. All of that matters, but there is another factor sitting underneath…
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Why Technology Debt Is Becoming More Expensive for Law Firms
Technology Debt Isn’t New. The Cost of Carrying It Is. Most law firms don’t set out to create technology debt. It accumulates through a series of reasonable decisions. A new…
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Case Study: How Afinety Helped Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP Rethink IT from the Inside Out
When Rich Pacheco joined Partridge Snow & Hahn, he didn’t come from the legal industry, which turned out to be a strength. After years at AAA, a 115-year-old company steeped…
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Why Law Firms Still Choose Cloud Desktops in a SaaS-First World
If email, document management, collaboration tools and many legal applications now live in the cloud, why do some law firms still use cloud desktops? It’s a reasonable question, and one…
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The IT Costs Law Firms Don’t See Coming
At the start of a new IT initiative, most law firm budgets make sense. The tools are selected. The scope is defined. The numbers line up with what the firm…
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Why Law Firm IT Roadmaps Break Down After Planning
Technology decisions inside law firms are rarely made in a single room by a single group. They emerge through committees, informal conversations, urgent emails and well-intentioned exceptions. On paper, many…
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Law Firm IT Today: Fewer Priorities, Better Control and a Lot Less Wishful Thinking
Law firms aren’t short on technology options. What they lack is clarity. Firms that will do well aren’t the ones chasing every new tool. They’re the ones simplifying, governing and…
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Key Components of a 2026 Law Firm IT Roadmap
For many law firms, technology planning used to be a once-a-year exercise. Pick a few projects, approve a budget and hope nothing unexpected happens. In 2025, that approach stopped working.…
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Case Study: How Afinety Became an Extension of Hersh FamilyLaw Practice’s Team
In family law, trust and responsiveness are everything. So, when Hersh FamilyLaw Practice’s initial transition to a cloud-based platform proved more challenging than expected, it wasn’t just a technical issue…
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Strategic IT Planning for Law Firms: A Guide for Leaders and Administrators
IT decisions have long lived in the background of law firm operations, often reactive and rarely central to long-term strategy. But that’s changing. Today, firm leaders and IT administrators alike…
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The Night of the Rampaging Frankenstack (Law Firm Edition)
It was a dark and stormy October night. Law firms across the country were wrapping up client meetings, filing motions and maybe sneaking in a pumpkin spice latte. But in…
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