Outsourcing Critiqued
In a 35-page report titled Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market (April 2005, PDF), Deloitte Consulting concludes that outsourcing is not all it’s cracked up to be. The report finds numerous problems and limitations. It’s hard to know how to apply the analysis to...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
More Froth in E-Discovery Market
Attenex, an e-discovery vendor with an interesting visualization interface, has raised $5 million in VC money according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Another sign of the rapid growth in the e-discovery market.
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
New Embedded Law System
Reed Smith recently announced a joint venture with DolphinSearch to create ComplianSeek, a product designed to help investment advisors meet regulatory requirements. This looks like what I have previously called an embedded law system. I previously suggested that law firms could and should create systems...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Tech Developments that Will Change Your Practice
The over-hyping of technology leads to a natural reaction to discount its impact. That is a mistake. Broken promises notwithstanding, new technology continues to change law practice and business. In the past, the challenge was just getting new technology to work. Today, the challenge is...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
More Offshore Legal Services Providers Identified
Last month, fellow blogger Joy London of excited utterances and I released a list of outsourced legal services (prior blog post here, updated list here). Based on reader comments and our own research, we have found one-half dozen additional examples. Offshoring is news in the...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Doing E-Discovery Right
The jury verdict against Morgan Stanley of $604 in the Perelman-Sunbeam case – based to a large extent on doing e-discovery wrong – raises the question of just what is happening in e-discovery practices. Good data on actual practices are scarce, a problem my friends...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
E-Discovery: No More Excuses
The lead feature story of the Wall Street Journal today is Age of Discovery – How Morgan Stanley Botched A Big Case by Fumbling Emails (subscription req’d). If litigants have not already been put on notice about e-discovery, this article is the wake-up call. Both...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Concept Searching in Discovery
The volume of documents to review in discovery continues to explode. Can lawyers rely on full-text and concept-searching instead of lawyers to review documents? Craig Ball provides a good analysis of this question in Unclear on the Concept in Law Technology News. Ball’s answer is...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
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