Legal Technology and Organizational Change (Interesting McKinsey Quarterly Article)
Legal Technology and Organizational Change (Interesting McKinsey Quarterly Article) Many law firms and law departments are interested in applying technology to improve law practice. Sometimes, new technology is merely a matter of a bit of back-end technical work and user training. Such changes do not...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Extranets at Work at Shaw Pittman LLP
Many law firms offer their clients extranets. Anecdotal evidence among law firm knowledge managers and IT professionals is that clients do not use them very much. Perhaps that is because most extranets are focused on exchanging documents. For that, e-mail will do (or at least...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
RFID and Presence Detection
Reading the July/August issue of Law Practice Management magazine, an interesting ad caught my eye. On page 3, 3M corporation advertises RFID to track paper files. RFID means Radio Frequency Identification. This is a passive chip that, when subject to a radio query, broadcasts back...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Make versus Buy for Legal Techology
In my prior post, I reported that Linklaters is building its own knowledge management software. Reading this article prompted me to think about the decision to make versus buy software, a decision most organizations face. Law firms and law departments are no different. For many...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
KM at Linklaters – Developing a Customized System
Continuing my reading of the July 14th issue of Legal IT (UK), I came across another interesting feature article. Knowledge Management: Capturing knowledge describes how Linklaters is creating its own knowledge management software. The firm’s system uses both a taxonomy for classification and full-text searching....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Wither KM?
The July 14th issue of Legal IT (UK) has a feature article by Matthew Parsons of interest to knowledge managers. Knowledge Management: Measuring success reports on KM cutbacks at US firms. The article notes that in March of this year, Jones Day eliminated its 2-year...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
LexisNexis Acquires Applied Discovery
LexisNexis announced in a July 11, 2003 press release that it has acquired Applied Discovery, an e-discovery company. I have always been struck by the seeming fragmentation of the e-discovery and litigation support market. My recollection is that a couple of bigger companies tried a...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Making Law Firm Extranets Work
Many law firms have established extranets designed to share documents and other information with clients. The anecdotal consensus among law firm technology managers is that neither clients nor firm lawyers have used these extranets as much as had been expected. The generally accepted explanation for...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
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