An Introduction to LawFirmCTO

Who I Am:

I am the Chief Technology Officer for an AMLaw 200 law firm.  As stated on the About Page, this is a personal blog and represents only my opinions and not those of my employer. My decision to enter the field of Information Technology came as the result of a 6 week “battle royal” between myself and the IT department at a past employer. Maybe some day I will blog about it.

My first paying IT job just happened to be in a legal environment. I quickly learned that working with attorneys was a sort of specialty and have been working with them ever since. Like many people, I started on a Help Desk and then moved to hardware support and so on. My stronger skills are in application architecture and development but I do seem to know enough about everything to be dangerous.

Why Am I Blogging:

By starting this blog I’m hoping to be able to share and collaborate what I think are good ideas and practical solutions in IT with a slant towards the legal industry. We all have ideas that either don’t work in our current environments or can be expanded in ways that are not applicable and I’m hoping to use this blog as a mechanism for exploring these topics as well.

It is my hope that there will be something here for everyone at some point but it’s too soon to see if that will be true or not. Where this really goes is yet to be seen.