Roundup (10/15/06)
In this roundup: cost savings in e-disccovery, an argument against using decision trees for litigation risk analysis; how White & Case promotes working virtually; the first legal market “mashup”; and more bad proposed bar rules. E-Discovery (EED) E-Mail Analytics Eases Burden of Discovery in law.com...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
3 min read
Lawyers’ Duty of Care in EED
The current issue of Law Technology News has an excellent roundtable discussion on what lawyers must do to ensure that EED processing works. Not addressed however, is an equally interesting question: the duty of care for lawyers reviewing documents. EDD Showcase: Worst Case Scenario (Oct...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
A New Approach to Work Product Retrieval and Search
Another live report from the Ark KM conference in Chicago about an innovative approach to search and workproduct retrieval. Session title: Linking KM & DM Systems at Skadden Arps. Presenters: Charmaine Polvara, Knowledge Systems Manager and Rudy DeFelice, CEO of Practice Technologies. Skadden did not...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
An Empirical Comparison of 3 Legal Market Work Product Retrieval Products
I’m still at the Ark KM conference in Chicago. Ali Shahidi, the CTO of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is presenting a fascinating empircial comparison of three work product retrieval solutions. This is another “real time” post. The firm has 3 KM products in production:...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
3 min read
KM at Jenner & Block (Ark KM Conference Real-Time Report)
This is a bit of an experiment. I’m at the Ark KM conference in Chicago now and am taking notes and will post in real time with little editing. The current session (10am Central) is The Expanding Surface of KM by Brent Kidwell of Jenner...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
5 min read
Innovative Law Departments – 2006
InsideCounsel magazine (formerly Corporate Counsel) reports on 10 innovative law departments in what appears now to be an annual feature. The 10 Most Innovative Legal Departments in Corporate America (Sept. 2006, PDF) focuses on new but simple solutions to common law department problems. This year,...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
The Ethics of Offshoring Legal Work
Legal trade press articles have quoted BigLaw partners about the parade of ethical horrors of offshoring. They should read The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, Formal Opinion 2006-3, which finds that it is ethically...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Clifford Chance to Offshore Staff Functions
Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance has announced it will move 300 staff positions to India. CC to transfer 300 jobs to India in bid to save £30m in legalweek.com (10/2/06) reports the firm is “set to move about 300 support staff jobs from the...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
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