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As a Managing Partner of Momkus McCluskey LLC — a full-service law firm serving Chicagoland and northern Illinois — one of my key initiatives this past year was to evaluate our firm’s IT, and identify where and how we could make improvements. I was both thrilled and a little apprehensive to tackle such an important aspect of our business, and dove in headfirst to identify our real needs and pain points, as well as evaluate the best solution to address them.