HECKMAN CONSULTING

Old Lyme, Connecticut
21-3 Library Lane
Old Lyme, CT 06371
Tel: (860) 434-5877
Fax: (860) 920-5194
e-mail: heckman at heckmanco dot com

John Heckman

    John Heckman has worked in the legal industry for over 25 years. He formed Heckman Consulting, LLP, in 1997 after several years with Kraft Kennedy & Lesser, a premier systems integrator for the U.S. legal market. Prior to that, he worked in technical support at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. While at Milbank, he was a member of the software evaluation committee.

    John has certified on various WordPerfect products for over twenty years.  Heckman Consulting is a Corel Approved Legal Partner. John is a Consultant for Worldox document management and a Certified Consultant and Trainer for Amicus Attorney. He supports both PCLaw and TimeMatters and has been a Certified Consultant for PClaw (1998-2007) and Time Matters (2001-2007). He is listed as a "Top Tier Technologist" on the lawcommerce.com site.

    Heckman Consulting has assisted numerous firms in assessing their technology needs, establishing technology plans and budgets. In his view, the selection of particular software must be seen as a function of the firm's real and perceived needs. Software selection is the end of the process, not the beginning.

    Articles from his Computer News for Law Firms and posts on the Technolawyer listserv have been reprinted in Law Office Computing, the ABA's Law Practice Today, Bar Association journals in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, as well as in  Legal Times (Washington D.C.), the Legal Intelligencer, The Lawyer's PC , Peer to Peer (Quarterly Newsletter of LawNet), and on various web sites such as law.com and lexisone.com.

In April of 2007 he started a blog, "Does It Compute?" which can be found at www.doesitcompute.typepad.com.