Innovation Ideas from Law Practice Management Magazine
Signs of Innovative Life in the Practice of Law in the April issue of Law Practice Management magazine offers multiple authors’ ideas on innovative ideas for law firms. Here, in slightly edited forms, are the two two items I contributed, one on legal outsourcing, the...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
4 min read
Legal Technology and Client Charges
A recent law suit contends that a law firm’s online research client charge-backs are unlawful. This hints at the bigger issue is what should be overhead and what should be a charged to clients. Carolyn Elefant writes in Law Firm Markup of Research Costs: Annoying...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
KM Now and Where It’s Going (ITLA webinar, June 8 2009)
ILTA’s knowledge management peer group hosts a webinar on June 8th called “Where Is KM Now and Where Is It Going?” The topic will cover the current state of KM and its possible future direction in the context of the global economic crisis. This is...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
In BigLaw, Where Every Firm is Above Average
Are large law firms reeling with the rest of the economy? Reading legal headlines since January 1, you would think so. But maybe not. In Survey: Law Firms Don’t Expect to Make Radical Changes the AmLaw Daily reports on a new Altman Weil law firm...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Cost Control as Part of AmLaw 200 Turnaround Strategies
Many legal publications and consultants offer advice for large law firms on how to stabilize and recover. Their suggestions focus on lawyer compensation, practice group strategy, alternative billing, and business development. I remain surprised at how little they focus on reducing law firm overhead. Last...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Wither Law Firm Marketing?
Through the 1980s, marketing was a four-letter word in most large law firms. By the 1990s, BigLaw had build marketing teams. One survey a couple of years indicated firms were spending 2% of revenue on marketing. Where is marketing today and how has it fared...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
GC: General Counsel, General Contractor, or Both?
Incisive Legal Intelligence (formerly ALM Research) recently released a legal outsourcing study. I thought The Law Deparment Legal Outsourcing Study, 2008 would quantify the rapid growth of legal process outsourcing (LPO). In fact, it focuses exclusively on law departments outsourcing legal work to law firms....
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Call for Respondents to ILTA KM Survey
The ILTA Knowledge Management peer group, in prep for a KM white paper, is gathering data to help assess the state of legal KM. Legal KM professionals, please consider participating. Respond to the ILTA KM survey here. It’s a brief questionnaire. Bonus incentive just for...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
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