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Knowledge Management

Legal Tech Grand Slam

Morrison & Foerster is a big law firm that knows how to have its cake and eat it too. They developed an award-winning knowledge management system and use it as competitive differentiator. A MoFo team led by Oz Benamram, Director of Knowledge Management, developed “AnswerBase,”...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

ILTA KM Peer Group Reception at Legal Tech

The knowledge management peer group of the International Legal Technology Association is hosting a reception at Legal Tech on January 30, 2007 in New York City. The 2007 Legal Tech trade show takes place Jan 29-31 in NYC. On that Tuesday, the KM Peer Group...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

Convergence to the Max

Tyco International takes convergence (consolidating the number of law firms used) to the limit, paring back from 250 to 1, Eversheds in the UK. The Eversheds press release provides little insight on the economics of this deal. We do learn, however, that legal technology will...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

Business Intelligence for General Counsels

Many law firms now use business intelligence methods to improve profitability. Do general counsels have opportunities to use BI to improve their operations? I think the answer is yes. Two years ago my post E-billing Ignores the Elephant in the Room argued that GCs need...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

Successful Global Law Firms

With law firm mergers booming, national and global law firms are becoming the norm. What defines success for the new behemoths? For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy Part (New York Law Journal, 1/12/07) describes the challenges one firm faces in creating a...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Litigators on Notice

All litigators should read the front page of the New York Times today. There’s a public pronouncement of an e-discovery challenge. Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls discusses the challenges of managing corporate e-mail when so many employees use personal accounts on services...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

Data Driven Knowledge Management

Law firms face many knowledge management hurdles. KM success might be easier by focusing on high value activities. Empirical data can help establish where that is. For transactional work, identifying where KM can have maximum impact is not hard. The non-profit International Association for...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

More Offshore Legal Services Options

Joy London (of excited utterances) and I have updated our outsourced and offshore legal service list. This update (the last one was in October) includes 10 new vendors and 1 dropped one. We have also noticed a couple of other trends. One is that more...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management Meets EDD

I’ve suggested that knowledge management and electronic discovery tools might converge, given that search underlies both. My June 29, 2005 a post mentioned “the possibility that e-discovery semantic analysis tools will be re-purposed for KM.” I got it backwards. Recommind, known to many law firms...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

Thomson Acquires Baker Robbins

The Thomson empire (which includes West, Elite, and Hildebrandt) now includes Baker Robbins (BRCO), one of the leading legal technology consulting firms. A BRCO press release states that the acquisition “provides a powerful complement to the Thomson portfolio of legal consulting services, and will be...

Ron Friedmann, 19 years ago 1 min read

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