During the past two years, the ‘portal’ has burst onto the legal technology scene. Vendors, hoping that the portal will become the next killer application, have been locked into a battle for the virtual desktop. However, while the technology has moved on, the key purpose of the portal has been lost.
The current trend in law firm portals is matter, client and person ‘centricity’ – aggregating data relevant to a particular matter, client or person from various legacy systems and applications into one contextual view. The idea is to give the fee earner all the information they need in one place.
