Balancing management, business and technical issues is the juggling act carried out by all IT directors. This year, despite the downturn in the dotcom market and growing talk about a possible recession, IT directors in law firms remain level-headed about the technical and management challenges ahead.
Caution prevails – Damian Griffiths, IT director at Addleshaw Booth & Co, says this is not the time for “five million pound projects” – but most on-going IT projects have already been budgeted and scoped out for the next few months and most IT directors in law firms appear to feel relatively sheltered from the cold winds of recession that are already threatening the US economy.
