Law Firm Data Governance News #19
CJ Anderson
Helping Law Firms use Data Governance for Operational Excellence | Host of the Law Firm Data Governance Podcast
Welcome to issue 19 of Iron Carrot’s Newsletter: Law Firm Data Governance News. Each month(ish), I’ll highlight our latest posts on Data Governance across LinkedIn, our Website, the Podcast, and other social media locations. It’s a lot of places to keep track of, so this newsletter is the best place to find out what we’ve been up to.? Please subscribe (if you haven’t already) – that way, you won’t miss an issue!
Update
February is a busy month with the Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day, School Half Term, and this year, the start of Ramadan. It's also the time of year when the weather is a mix of beautiful, almost spring days and dark, rainy, almost winter days.
This mix of seasons is also reflected in the conversations we’re having about law firm data and data governance. Some firms are still in winter reflection mode, figuring out what they want to do next to mature their data, some firms are in spring action mode, with new data activities starting to take shape.
Whichever mode a firm is in, the Iron Carrot team has been busy helping shape conversations and actions to move firms forward in maturing their law firm data governance. Data is clearly on many people’s minds as more firms are booked in for our Data Governance Foundation Roadmap process than ever before.
Recent Popular LinkedIn Posts
We regularly share Data Governance insights on LinkedIn. Why not visit the links below and join the conversation?
Do we need to have a data governance policy?
In my experience with law firms, the conventional wisdom that you need to start with a data governance policy isn’t true. In this article I’m going to explain what a policy is, why you don’t need to have one, and what you do need to have instead.
The data governance policy is one of those things that, if you google it, you’ll find loads and loads of wordy definitions for.? The simple definition is that a data governance policy is a?…
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Catch up on All Previous Articles…
All Iron Carrot articles are available on LinkedIn and our Website, so these links offer an easy way to catch up on any you’ve missed or want to re-read:
Law Firm Data Governance Podcast
We’ve got a couple more episodes for this season that are about to drop, and bring this season to a close, so now is a good time to catch up on any episodes you may have missed so far:
Season 4 Episode 7 - Talking Data With... Antonio Acu?a MBE (Kennedys)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Talking Data With... Melanie Farquharson (3Kites Consulting)
Season 4 Episode 5 – Talking Data With... Katy Snell & Alice Laird (Howard Kennedy)
Season 4 Episode 4 – Talking Data With... Tudor Borlea (Collibra)
Season 4 Episode 3 – Talking Data With... Cheryl Ashman (White & Case)
Season 4 Episode 2 – Talking Data With... James Markham (Dentons)
Season 4 Episode 1 – Talking Data With… Simone Pozniak (Webber Wentzel)
The podcast is free to listen to, and for most platforms, no account or login is needed. So why not start listening now and set up your Data Governance journey for success?
You can listen to all of the Podcast episodes via one of the following links:
If your favourite Podcast player supports the importing of an RSS feed, you can also copy this link and paste it into your player app to subscribe directly.
That’s it for this month!
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