Mr. McNeill is a founder and Managing Director of OTB Consulting and is a recognized leader in pioneering the use of technology in the practice of law.  OTB Consulting serves clients nationally and internationally to design and implement law practice management systems that help law firms deliver higher quality legal services at lower cost.

Mr. McNeill has over 25 years of direct experience in law practice management systems design and implementation.  He specializes in workflow analysis, systems design, training, and support to create integrated solutions for law firms using the leading law practice applications such as Time Matters, Billing Matters, PCLaw; HotDocs, and CaseMap; CT Summation; STI Tabs3 and PracticeMaster; Worldox; Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect; with customized programming as needed. With his partners at Out of the Box Developers, he created Practice Area Templates for Time Matters, making it easier and less expensive to customize it for various areas of practice.

Mr. McNeill has personally served hundreds of clients, ranging in size from individual practices to firms of hundreds of lawyers and staff.  He has led projects ranging from system upgrades, data conversion and related training to ones as complex as entire information systems design, budgeting, project management and system implementation.  Mr. McNeill is an expert at making sure technology systems investments “take hold” and are adopted by clients’ staff and lawyers, thus allowing clients to achieve the internal results desired.  Mr. McNeill has a unique strength in his ability to gain client buy-in with his user-friendly training skills and a focus on intra-company communications, which are often a hinge-pin for project success.

Mr. McNeill has served both public firms and private law practices across the country, including international client engagements in Ireland and Egypt. His clients include general practice firms and firms specializing in personal injury, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, mass torts, insurance defense, landlord-tenant Law, creditors’ rights, the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies; state and county governments; non-profit civil rights organizations; and state bar associations.  He is a frequent speaker at local and national CLE programs, such as NY Legal Tech and Glasser Legal Works.