In my prior post, Knowledge Management Reincarnated, I argued that KM is expanding beyond its core remit today because KM professionals span multiple disciplines, think laterally, and can handle complex problems that fall outside the boundaries of other support functions. Three experienced KM professionals wrote...

Last week in KM is Dead – Long Live KM, I suggested that large law firms have moved beyond traditional knowledge management to legal project management (LPM), alternative fee arrangements (AFA), and other endeavors. I also said I would offer a theory for the shift...

Knowledge management may not be dead but it certainly has changed.  Absent today are previously dominant “pure” or “traditional” legal KM topics such as precedents, forms, work product retrieval, experience location, taxonomies, and the role of practice support lawyers. Instead, knowledge managers now discuss alternative...