Can we get a Big Law tech sound off? We're still working on Windows 8 (from 2012) over here, and all of the add-ons and plug-ins and whatever make logging in and starting the day a 20 minutes ordeal.

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Half of our documents save in Word 97-2003 format. We have 900 lawyers and our doc management defaults to 20 years ago.

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IManage does it too. Seriously wtf.

My firm got a new CIO and we’re finally moving to Office 365 in 2021. Moving our file management system into the cloud will be a pain but hopefully no more iManage!

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What is your cloud based system called?

Sounds like you need a new CIO

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The best thing about all the firms I worked at was partners and seniors calling IT to ask for help with formatting Word documents, as if they’d know anything about that.

My last firm had a combined IT desk and Word Processing. Now I'm constantly calling the IT desk with stuff they can't help on.🥴

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