November 7, 2006
Midsized Law Firms Are Behind the Mobile Curve
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) recently released their 2006 survey of e-mail practices in law firms.
Only 24 percent of law firms with less than 50 attorneys are using mobile devices like BlackBerrys® to access e-mail remotely. That compares to 42 percent of firms with 50 to 199 attorneys and to BigLaw's 45 percent. What is also striking is that only five percent of those with mobile capabilities have implemented time tracking. Less than one percent are capturing expenses using their mobile devices.
The findings are surprising when you consider the extraordinary return of the investment. In the hands of attorneys, PDAs like the BlackBerry are moneymakers. They convert downtime into productive time, improve responsiveness to clients, and make capturing billable time easier and faster. Ipsos-Reid, one of the top 10 research firms in the world, reported that surveyed firms averaged 53 minutes per day of recovered productive time using mobile devices like the BlackBerry–almost an hour per day per fee earner!
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