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Contract Management, Law Departments / Client Service

BigLaw and Contract Management – Google as Opportunity Missed?

Google seeks a staff person to to start a contract management program. I’ve suggested that BigLaw is missing out in helping corporations manage contracts. Perhaps the Google example illustrates the point. The job description says “Google, the award-winning search engine, is rapidly growing and is...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Clifford Chance to Expand Offshoring

Global law firm Clifford Chance plans to do more legal work in lower cost jurisdictions. The Lawyer reports on a memo to partners that managing partner David Childs sent recently. Childs: my vision for Clifford Chance (5/29/06) reports that the firm plans “escalation of an...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Interesting Technology

Law Firm Uses Video Podcasts for Updates

Video is a great way to communicate. That explains why so many people have their eyes glued to the TV. And why mobile phone and PDA makers are rushing video-enabled devices to market? Where are law firms in this action? In what appears a first,...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Another E-Discovery Acquisition

Another sizable e-discovery vendor announced it is being acquired. SPI Tech, a litigation support and e-discovery provider, announced the pending acquisition by ePLDT, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (“PLDT”). A public disclosure document indicates the agreement was reached...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

Hummingbird Acquired

On Friday, May 26th, Hummingbird, one of two main suppliers of document and practice management systems for large law firms, announced it was being acquired by Symphony Technology Group. Symphony Technology Group “is a strategic holding company that helps companies maximize operational efficiencies in the...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Roundup (5/24/06)

In this roundup: insight into AmLaw 100 web sites, legal marketing moves offshore, the need for project management in e-discovery, and infrastructure: managing e-mail management and smart-cards for security. Law Firm Marketing Marketing expert Larry Bodine compares and analyzes two AmLaw 100 web sites in...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 2 min read

Interesting Technology

IT Trends: Virtualization and Software as Service

A recent McKinsey & Co. survey of IT executives of big companies found that they view two new technologies – virtualization and software as a service (“SaaS”) – as highly promising for real benefits. Virtualization: Until recently, each operating system and many applications needed ran...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 2 min read

Knowledge Management

KM Going Up or Down?

Is knowledge management on the rise or fall? Not just skeptics ask; so do legal technology consultants and KM professionals. Some takes on answers…. It’s down. So I thought when I looked at the down-sloping line of the Google trends graph for “knowledge management,”....

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 2 min read

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