Successful IT innovation is all too often elusive. Stare at a blank sheet of paper, alone, for an extended period of time and few genuinely good ideas surface. During the past 10 years, many law firms have created internal IT innovation or ‘e-business’ think-tanks focusing on IT opportunities. The outcome has been perhaps entirely predictable – nothing grows in a vacuum, good ideas included.

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