Complex Jobs Moving Offshore
Offshoring “is moving up the food chain” reports Kevin G. Hall of Knight Ridder Newspapers in More complex jobs moving offshore. Tax, public relations, architecture, and high-end research are all…
Working Virtually Revisited
Lawyers are increasingly mobile – technology lets them work from almost anywhere. I suggested in The Future Law Office: Going Virtual that lawyers could sometimes work at home or in…
IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail
Many knowledge management professionals say that KM is 80% process and 20% technology. Perhaps true but if honored, requires often unrealistic cultural changes. A new article about work at Morrison…
The Way Lawyers Work
Do lawyers think carefully enough about how they practice law? I think not. Relatively few lawyers seem to analyze how they practice. How many carefully consider alternatives or consciously seek…
Offshoring Among the AmLaw 200
The American Lawyer surveyed the AmLaw 200 firms (see Law Firm Leaders: Conservatively Optimistic). Lots of interesting information on the state of Biglaw; I’ll focus on offshoring. The article notes…
Software Beats Lawyers
Can law firms rely on software rather than lawyers to review huge volumes of documents in discovery? In Concept Searching in Discovery I wrote that this is an empirical question. …
Using BI to Improve Leverage
Yesterday I suggested that improving the process of assigning associates could improve partner profits. In fact, Bryan Cave, with its deep commitment to business intelligence, appears to have done so. …
Easily Increase PPP by $27k?
Is there an easy way to increase per partner profits by $27,000? I previously reported that IBM’s global consulting business built a system to match consultants with the right job….
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