The Debate About Large Tech Purchases

Karen Cottle, senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, said 40 people spent two days figuring out what the technology system at her firm should deliver.

“There’s a huge amount of internal resources and thinking that has to go into this,” Cottle told the audience at Stanford’s CodeX FutureLaw 2015 Conference on April 30.

She was general counsel at Adobe Systems before joining Sidley and spoke on a panel about the challenges of adopting legal technology within corporate departments. Software as a service systems can be implemented with very little work compared to custom-designed systems but there are always trade-offs in terms of functionality and other factors, ...