Just a quick post on a law firms Legal IT dept being the lead in a BBC news story on corporate technology!

The article is about the shift to using your own PC at work rather than the PC given to you. As the article says:

You are at work. Your computer is five years old, runs Windows XP. Your company phone has a tiny screen and doesn’t know what the internet is. Idling at home are a snazzy super-fast laptop, and your own smartphone is barred from accessing work e-mail.

So it’s quite an shift for SNR Denton if they really are using home PC’s as the main computer for their staff (although the article mentions a pool of laptops, I wonder if there is a standard desktop and then the home PC/laptop is for those that also need a mobile computer?). But either way it shows that Legal IT is no longer the recipient of the comment “it’s finally doing what the rest of IT has been doing for years” and is up to date with the latest trends in corporate IT.

Anyway, take a look at the article as it nicely captures what can be done and many of the concerns people have with the approach. But one paragraph nicely backs up my last post “RIP Legal IT?”: 

“The old environment was very support heavy, so we can use our support staff to do other critical work without getting sidetracked.”

IT forever evolving!