Businesses that want to stay ahead of their competition actively pursue performance improvements by finding and adopting better ways of doing things. DocuSign was one such “better way” as it provides a way to electronically sign contracts and legal documents. In trying to “keep up with the Joneses”, many companies adopted DocuSign just because that
Before I answer that question, let me first state that this post has no political affiliations. I’m simply going to look at the subject of how the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) could have been more effectively executed purely from the perspective of process, controls, and automation. I will attempt to make light of the subject a
Like it or not, it seems, technology is here to stay. In almost every aspect of our lives, both personal and professional, everything is going digital. For some of us that simply means we can access email no matter where we are from our phones. Our data, and those cute pictures of our kids, are
It seems that whether you’re part of an in-house legal team or independent counsel, lawyers and paralegals are always busy, maybe too busy. But busy is a good thing, right? As Philip Slayton wrote in his recent blog in Canadian Lawyer “It’s a point of pride for a legal professional. To be in demand is
Legal teams are not typically early adopters of technology. In fact, it seems in many cases they have just recently started taking an active look at the various ways technology might make their jobs, and their lives, easier. As Mary Juetten notes in her Law Technology Today blog Tech Savvy In-House Part I: “Attorneys are trained
If you’re in the business of innovation, a start-up, research organization, a university, or have a focused R&D effort, you have probably spent time wrestling with the question of what intellectual property (IP), innovations, branding, or trade secrets to protect, how you go about protecting it, and when you should start the process for protection.
There is a growing trend, in almost every industry, of turning to integrated electronic systems for document management. While it is still true that “Paper documents can be archived, filed, sorted out, and stored in offices as hard data copies of valuable company information, which can be retrieved anytime in the future, or as needed.”
Atlantic Software Technologies, Inc
