Thomson Acquires Contact Networks
Thomson, owner of West and other legal properties, has acquired Contact Networks. The Contact Networks home page has a notice at top: “Thomson, the world’s leading information company, has acquired Contact Networks, the global leader in Enterprise Relationship Management, providing social networking for the corporate...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Conflicts Checking for Contract Lawyers
Does your firm have a clear policy to check and clear conflicts for temp or contract lawyers? A lawyer / e-discovery expert asked me this yesterday. With all the articles and conferences about EDD, I don’t recall seeing much on this topic. Nor have I...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Life Span of Chief Officers at Law Firms
What is the life span of a CxO at a law firm? Carolyn Elefant’s blog post title – Life for Law Firm Marketers: Brutish, and Ultimately Short – summarizes the lot of law firm marketers. She asks “Is the short life span of law firm...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Steve Jobs: Please, Back to the Design Workshop
I give Steve Jobs and Apple huge credit for great design and new business models. But not all is perfect in Mac land. Ok, I admit it, I use a PC with Windows. But I do use iTunes and QuickTime. Apple, along with countless other...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Roundup: Lawyer Ratings, Outsourcing in Canada, and Legal Tech for Recruiting
In this Roundup: GCs develop lawyer ratings, Canadian firms slow to outsource, and using legal technology for recruting. Lawyer Ratings and Why They Matter I have previously suggested that lawyer ratings could drive lawyer efficiency. A good rating scheme should encourage efficiencies from legal technology,...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Updated Directory of Large Law Firm Branded Blogs
Joy London (of excited utterances) and I track branded blogs of large law firms. We have updated the list we first published in March 2007. Our directory of large US firm blogs has grown: – 15 AmLaw 200 firms, up from 9, have firm-branded blogs...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Legal Process Outsourcing Survey
Inside Counsel magazine recently asked its general counsel readers “Have you ever outsourced legal work to India?” The questions was asked on the magazine’s web site and the answers published in the November issue: – 26% “Yes” – 22% “May in the future” – 52%...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Honestly Held Beliefs May be Wrong
This is the fifth in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is! Honestly Held Beliefs May be Wrong. Lawyers vociferously support their...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
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