Faegre Baker CIO Says Lawyers Need to Learn Tech

Brad Frederiksen, chief information and knowledge management officer at Faegre Baker Daniels, believes it is absolutely essential for a law firm to integrate people with its technology – a task not easy for lawyers who are burdened with judgment calls over anything else.

Yet Frederiksen, the onetime chief information officer at National Car Rental who has worked at Faegre Baker for about 10 years, argues that technological issues like mobility, privacy and matter management cannot just be swept under the rug: lawyers need to adapt in an industry that is infamously behind-the-times.

Frederiksen, who was part of a team responsible for merging the ...