Legal Commentary

Not all firms can afford the sizzling new life-size telepresence videoconferencing systems offered by Cisco, HP, and other vendors. And sometimes, even if firms can afford the new systems, they aren't the right match for their needs, says Steve Fletcher, CIO at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein (and recipient of the 2009 LTN Award for IT Director of the Year).

  

Fletcher helped orchestrate an effective, flexible high-definition videoconferencing system for his firm, which has 225 attorneys and 225 support staff, and operates six offices in North and South Carolina. They first identified what types of meetings they needed to support, and the physical opportunities and limitations of each office before creating an a la carte system.

Read about the installation in the March issue of Law Technology News.