The Virtual Law Library
Law.com has posted an interesting article from The National Law Journal by Elizabeth D. Kenney, the director of libraries at Dechert in New York. In her article, Revolution or Evolution for Law Libraries, the author offers a useful discussion of the trade-off between the “digital”...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Legal Outsourcing in the News (Again)
The July 2003 issue of Corporate Legal Times in an article titled U.S. Companies Dsicover Cost Savings Down Under, describes how General Mills is saving up to 50% on outside lawyer fees by using Australian and New Zealand law firms to draft US patent applications....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Back to the Future – Imaging Returns
Reading the June 23, 2003 issue of Information Week magazine was a trip down memory lane for me. An article titled Imaging Gets a Second Look reports on renewed interest in imaging. In the early 1990s when I worked at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, I...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
More on How Running Law Firms as a Business Could Affect Clients
Continuing my reading of Law Firm Inc., mentioned in a post earlier this week, I was intrigued by another article titled Audit Your Auditors. Two CPAs offer a list of 10 factors for law firm managers to consider in evaluating/scoring their audit firms. For the...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Blogs In the New York Times (again)
On May 19th, the New York Times reported on wikis (a shared web space in which anyone in a group can add and delete content). Today, the Times reports on the growing popularity of blogs in the corporate workplace in an article titled “Blogs in...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
The High Cost of Litigation, the Contribution of Technology
A recently posted article in the Automated Lawyer area of law.com titled The Litigation Arms Race describes the ever increasing costs of litigation. The focus is on product liabilities contingency fee work, but the lessons may well apply across a wide range of commercial litigation....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Applying the Internal Discipline of Budgeting to Client Service
The Summer 2003 issue of Law Firm Inc., a new American Lawyer Media magazine about the business of law firms and targeted at senior managers of law firms, carries an article titled When Culture Clashes with the Bottom Line. It describes the benefits of budgeting...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
The Future of Legal Secretaries
This article first appeared in the May 12, 2003 issue of Legal Times ABSTRACT: Advances in legal technology have caused the role of secretaries to change significantly. Law firms have opportunities to re-think how they manage secretaries to save money and improve internal and client...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
9 min read
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