Escaping the CTO Gap Zone: Technology Strategy as a Service for Law Firms Ready to Rise

Your law firm is too large to ignore technology strategy — and too small to justify a full-time Chief Technology Officer. Welcome to the CTO Gap Zone™. While you're spending hours mediating disputes between IT vendors and software providers, AI is reshaping the practice of law around you. Partners are experimenting with tools that lack governance. Top associates are leaving for firms with better technology. And the strategic decisions that will define your firm's competitive position for the next decade are being made by default — or not at all. Drawing from over two decades of legal technology leadership, Laura Kennedy offers a practical path forward. This book shows managing partners, COOs, and executive committees how to navigate AI transformation, build integrated technology ecosystems, and access C-level technology expertise through Technology Strategy as a Service (TSaaS)™ — a continuous strategic partnership that delivers CTO-caliber leadership without the overhead of a full-time executive. "They're making million-dollar technology decisions without anyone in the room whose job it is to think strategically about technology. What Laura has outlined in the CTO Gap Zone book is something nobody else in this space has been willing to do: name the problem, quantify what it's costing, and lay out a model for solving it that doesn't require a seven-figure hire. She's not theorizing. She's drawing from twenty-five years of doing this work inside law firms, and it shows on every page." - Kevin Chern, JD, CEO & Founder, Sanguine Strategic Advisors, Inaugural Member, Fastcase 50 The TSaaS™ Starter Tools are where strategy begins. The TSaaS™ Technology Leadership Assessment shows you where your firm stands. The TSaaS™ Decision Filter helps you move forward deliberately. Used together, they give any firm — regardless of size or technical sophistication — the foundation for making smarter technology decisions. To being courageous!