Best Practices Questioned
I periodically blog on the topic of best practices so was intrigued to read “The Quest for the Best” in the Legal Times (11/15/04, subscription required). In it, management consultant Rees Morrison argues that the quest for best practices is akin to the search for...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
Freshfields Chooses Verity for Enterprise Search
Enterprise search – the ability to conduct full-text search across multiple information repositories – comes up at many of the knowledge management meetings I have attended over the last year. Anecdotally, it seems that many firms are evaluating Recommind. So it is interesting to see...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Personal Productivity Update
Periodically, I share findings about how technology improves my own productivity. In this post, I have some quick comments about back-ups and full-text search. Last August, I wrote about using small external hard drives to facilitate back-ups. I realize that for users in corporate settings,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
More Legal Outsourcing Examples
American Lawyer magazine reports in Briefed in Bangalore (November 2004) on more examples of outsourcing legal work to India. At the same time, at least one US-based company is promoting outsourcing services based on being in the US and using US citizens. The article notes...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Bringing EDD In-House: A Bad Idea
A recent article suggested that law firms should make electronic evidence discovery an in-house profit center. Blogger Adam Smith, Esq. beat me to the punch in explaining why this is an ill-considered idea. His post, EDD: Look Who’s Not Coming to Dinner, explains three reasons...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Litigation Support Market Set to Consolidate
Litigation support has long been a fragmented market: many suppliers and no single one with high market share. A new study suggests this will change. It also finds – and I believe this is related – that most large law firms lack electronic evidence expertise....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
Update on GE Capital Legal Services Auction
Last year GE Capital began an experiment to purchase legal services via auction (see my posting). Two years into the experiment, GE reports savings of up to 20%. GE Capital Wins Big with Legal-Services Auctions in the Corporate Legal Times September issue quotes Barbara Daniele,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
More on Working Virtually
I have previously suggested (blog post and article) that law firms might be able to reduce occupancy cost and free-up time (billable or personal – to be negotiated) by allowing or encouraging lawyers to work at home or in satellite offices some number of days...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
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