Taking Mickey to the cleaners
Craig Courter, the chief information officer at global law firm Baker & McKenzie, may now have risen to the top of the IT profession, but the Disney Corporation might still remember him as a lawyer.
Courter says one of the highlights of his legal career was “suing Mickey Mouse”.
He said a restaurant next to the Disneyland theme park in Los Angeles had a hard time finding representation against the entertainment giant until he took the case, sending Mickey, Donald and the gang packing back to the Magic Kingdom.
Trigger happy
Allen & Overy recently turned the tables on a group of suppliers tendering for a contract to supply a content management system, using a strategy along the lines of ‘divide and conquer’.
The firm managed to get a large group of suppliers – Stellent, Hummingbird, CoreChange, Documentum, FileNet, iManage, Compuware and Plumtree – into the same room, to discuss their responses to its RFI (request for information).
The resulting shoot-out left the suppliers rather nonplussed.
One of the participants told Legal IT: “It was the weirdest situation I have ever encountered in my professional life!”
