Convergence to the Max
Tyco International takes convergence (consolidating the number of law firms used) to the limit, paring back from 250 to 1, Eversheds in the UK. The Eversheds press release provides little…
Business Intelligence for General Counsels
Many law firms now use business intelligence methods to improve profitability. Do general counsels have opportunities to use BI to improve their operations? I think the answer is yes. Two…
Successful Global Law Firms
With law firm mergers booming, national and global law firms are becoming the norm. What defines success for the new behemoths? For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy…
Litigators on Notice
All litigators should read the front page of the New York Times today. There’s a public pronouncement of an e-discovery challenge. Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls discusses…
Data Driven Knowledge Management
Law firms face many knowledge management hurdles. KM success might be easier by focusing on high value activities. Empirical data can help establish where that is. For transactional work,…
More Offshore Legal Services Options
Joy London (of excited utterances) and I have updated our outsourced and offshore legal service list. This update (the last one was in October) includes 10 new vendors and 1…
Knowledge Management Meets EDD
I’ve suggested that knowledge management and electronic discovery tools might converge, given that search underlies both. My June 29, 2005 a post mentioned “the possibility that e-discovery semantic analysis tools…
Thomson Acquires Baker Robbins
The Thomson empire (which includes West, Elite, and Hildebrandt) now includes Baker Robbins (BRCO), one of the leading legal technology consulting firms. A BRCO press release states that the acquisition…
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