Can Lawyers Learn to Love Numbers?
A front-page article in the Friday New York Times raises the issue of the divide between science and humanities. Lurking here a lesson for lawyers. In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture describes Google’s recently released Books Ngram Viewer, which analyzes how often phrases...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Attorney at Work – Good Ideas for Lawyers and Law Firm Managers
We are overwhelmed by information and data. What we lack is the wisdom and insight to take simple steps to improve what we do. So I am pleased to see a new service and website that focuses on the latter rather than the former. Attorney...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
Does Herbert Smith’s Belfast Doc Review Center Portend More Law Factories?
Recently I have been exploring “Law Factory” – the concept that the legal market will offer low cost, industrialized processes for routine work that are separate from “bet the farm” operations for high-stakes matters. An open question is whether the two can co-exist under one...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Strategic Legal Technology Named an ABA Journal 2010 Top 100 Blog
Last week I was honored to learn that this blog, Strategic Legal Technology, is a 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100, the second year in a row for this award . ABA Journal editors “scour the Web to bring you the best and brightest law bloggers...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
Twitter Roundup – Oct and Nov 2010
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. So far (2 weeks), AT&T iPhone 4 as flaky as Sprint BlackBerry. Just had to power cycle b/c Settings got stuck w/o way bk to main screen 24 Sep 2010 RT...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
The Case for General Counsels to Invest in R&D
A key ingredient needed to reduce legal cost and improve lawyer performance is missing: research and development. Let’s start with what we see in the legal market: A few general counsels are changing how they manage law practice, both internally and with outside counsel....
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
4 min read
Report from the 2010 Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute
Last week I attended the Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute, where many of the leading jurist- and practitioner- e-discovery experts attend or present. My employer Integreon was a conference sponsor so I blogged five sessions over at the Integreon blog. Here are the links with brief...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Practice Support Consulting Redux
In recent decades, law firms have added many new functions, for example, marketing, practice support, e-discovery, client service, business research, and knowledge management. Some firms have also created business analyst roles, which are often in information technology. A business analyst in IT is not the...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
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