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Knowledge Management

KM Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

The 2005 ILTA staffing survey says the KM cup is half-full only. In 49% of 500+ lawyer firms, no one manages KM. Will the cup fill over time? We’ll know more if ILTA keeps asking this question. I’ll also have more to say soon about...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

Do Blawgs Burn as Brightly as Surveys Suggest?

Just how important are law blogs (blawgs)? Hard to say for sure, but just remember 10 years back when many lawyers questioned the need for e-mail or websites. Earlier this week, Law.com published my commentary Do Blawgs Burn as Brightly as Surveys Suggest?. It explains...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Booming Markets Don’t Preclude Bankruptcy

The e-discovery market is booming. A boom does not, however, guarantee success. According to a press release, big player Daticon has declared bankruptcy and been acquired. In the release dated Jan 17, 2006, acquiror Xiotech writes that “today it has reached agreement with Daticon Incorporated...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Outsourcing Legal Research: Did the New York Times Get it Right?

A recent New York Times article suggests that law firms should worry about corporations outsourcing legal research. Is this right? Even Law Firms Join the Trend to Outsourcing (NYTimes, 1/13/06, $) by Jonathan D. Glater says of legal research outsourcing that the “development may be...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Collaboration Re-Considered

Stretch your memory. Think back to the early days of e-mail. Did you resist? Fess up. Are we all at risk for resisting the next wave? Around 1995 I wrote an article arguing that lawyers should use e-mail. Seems quaint, but trust me, it was...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

KM at Morrison & Foerster

Morrison & Foerster is one of the leading US law firms for creating and developing an innovative and highly effective approach to knowledge management. Last month, Law Technology News published IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail (free registration required or PDF version...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Offshoring Update

Growth in offshoring legal work appears to continue, at least judging by the most recent update to the list of outsourced legal services that excited utterances and I maintain. The latest list of legal outsourcing and offshoring contains more than a dozen new entries since...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Best Practices, Legal Process Improvement

Practice and Process Improvement – Part II

Last November I suggested that in law firms, it was not obvious who should be responsible for practice and process improvement. A new answer may be emerging. Hildebrandt consultant Susan Raridon Lambreth wrote an excellent article, How Do Practice Leaders Get Their Jobs Done and...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

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