Who doesn’t want to be successful?  To have repeatable and controllable success is the promise of good project management.  Such promises don’t come easy though.   It takes good practices and procedures that are consistently applied, measured and reviewed - this is the hallmark of mature organizational project management (OPM). 

Will an increasing amount of deepfakes — deceptive images, content, and videos often created by AI and floated on the internet — start making us doubt our own eyes?

AI is rapidly transforming numerous industries, including the legal field. AI-powered solutions streamline workflows, automate mundane tasks, and enhance efficiency, saving both time and resources. However, a new wave of AI is taking the world by storm.

A single modern smartphone could be used to guide more than 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon — all at the same time! Is this too much power? While smartphones can be innovative and productive tools that allow lawyers and other professionals to stay connected, employers should be aware of the potential pitfalls

Technology has moved from the desktop to the laptop to the handheld to now embedded with our bodies. With each move, it becomes a more personal and intimate part of both our business and personal lives. Today’s technology is now wearable and soon embedded in our bodies – becoming even more intimate and central to our lives.

Zero trust cybersecurity protocols may enable law firms and other organizations to create a more resilient protection network, but how do they get there?

What really happens? What steps can companies and law firms take to better survive a ransomware attack? Prior planning and open communication with all stakeholders is a good start.

As we evolve toward the Internet of Behavior, will people be able to accept being monitored, tracked, and analyzed with a mix of data technology and behavioral science?

Working from Home is changing how law firms work. This is a look at the new concept of "Anywhere” Operations and how law firms need to get behind this latest development in remote working

Who doesn’t want to be successful? To have repeatable and controllable success is the promise of good project management. This article takes a look at the different levels of project management maturity and what that means to law firms.

Law firms can achieve a level of cybersecurity maturity that allows them to detect & contain a cyber-threat before it even has a chance to disrupt business.

Can a stack of sticky notes, a pen, and a blank wall revolutionize your firm’s legal work? Kanban, a visual system for legal project management, may do just that.

A strong and talented security team alone cannot protect an organization from today’s cyber risk as it is the people. Strong cybersecurity policies should be defined and enforced in every organization.

Add a smidgen of Agile, dust with a hint of Waterfall, and add a large dollop of Scrum, and you’ve got a modern project. In years past, you would have had to choose a single methodology to get a project done, but increasingly in today’s world, you can select additional project methodologies that will help you get the job done better.

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that out of the ordinary, except that the executive was not a real person. Thieves used voice-mimicking software in order to imitate the real executive. And they got away with it. This scam was enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that was used to create a realistic deep-fake imitation. It is being called the world’s first AI heist.

We are at the beginning of a new machine age. Intelligent computing is being successfully applied to many areas of manufacturing, banking, medical, investing and legal work and it will only grow. How will law firms adapt? Can legal work be done by a machine?

Projects fail for many reasons. Over the last decade many firms have created an internal project management office (PMO) to try to stem such failure. PMOs try to standardize how projects are managed and make them more predictable and successful. In the past few years a new and higher level of project management has emerged — the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).

Computers are everywhere and have gotten smaller and faster. With easy availability of the Internet, these little and powerful computers grew to form an “Internet of things” collecting, processing and presenting useful information to us.

Traditional project management methods often require heavy upfront planning and can be difficult to apply legal matters. Agile Project Management (Agile) methods may be better suited to the fast-paced change seen in legal projects, and is a great way for law firms to deliver value to their clients more quickly and with less risk. 

We live in an age of high mobility. Mobile devices let us be productive and on the go. However, all this convenience and flexibility comes at enormous risk. Critical data can be at risk depending on where and how users use their devices. Mobile device use has become the weakest link to a firm's data security.