2006 (Not) Technology Prediction
My 2006 technology prediction for BigLaw: Forget about technology per se. Instead, lawyers must adopt new ways of working. Changing how lawyers work is tough. On the tech side, even a roll out of easy-to-use new software requires cajoling and hand-holding. Vendors know this. They...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
Bringing Lawyers Down to Earth
The Wall Street Journal article Bringing Surgeons Down to Earth (11/16/05, $) reports on making surgeons pay more attention to non-doctors in the operating room, which turns out to save lives. Lawyers are at the top of their own caste system – can they learn...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
Is Manual KM Doomed?
Will lawyers contribute to knowledge management efforts? In the US, the answer is probably not. Even among corporate counsel, where the billable hour does not create perverse incentives, lawyers do not contribute. Fellow blogger and law department consultant Rees Morrison writes (12/21/05) that law department...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Business Intelligence and a Large Firm Merger
Can good business intelligence analysis affect a large firm merger? We may find out if Bryan Cave and Squire Sanders merge – a possibility reported earlier this week. Bryan Cave may be looking at merger (12/20/05) reports that “St. Louis law firm Bryan Cave LLP...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
Taming Contract Beasts
Those who need to understand a dense contract should consider special software to create a hyperlinked version. I recently spoke with the founders of Affinitext, a service that converts mega-contracts into easy-to-navigate, on-screen documents. Founders Ed Adams and Graham Thomson have extensive experience – law...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Software Adoption Rates in Large Firms
When a large law firm rolls out new software, how can it measure success? Do firms even ask this question? Reader feedback is welcome. As CIO at a large law firm, I deployed a portal. We bought separate tracking software to measure and analyze portal...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
Save 90% on Legal Work
A Texas lawyer who runs a business saved 90% of legal fees by sending legal research offshore. A Smaller Legal World in the Fulton County Daily Reporter (12/13/05) reports that a lawyer running a telemedicine company paid local Texas counsel $250,000 for multi-state research. Subsequently,...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Compliance and E-Discovery: Long Term Convergence?
EDDix provides objective, in-depth research about the e-discovery market. Its latest study, Corporate Litigation Readiness, presents several interesting findings. EDDix reports are typically based on research conceived, executed, and analyzed by EDDix. Here, an e-discovery vendor commissioned a detailed survey of in-house counsel and turned...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
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