Do Lawyers Collaborate as Much as Others?
Do lawyers collaborate the same way and as much as other professionals? In thinking about this question, first consider 3 recent articles Smashing The Clock, the Business Week Dec 11th cover story, explains how Best Buy is moving away from a culture of office “face...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Foley & Lardner Promotes Legal Technology
Legal technology can be a competitive weapon for large law firms. Foley & Lardner Leads the Way With Client Extranets (Legal Times, 11/30/06) reports on how Foley uses technology to serve clients. The firm has created customized extranets to share documents with client; one client...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Can Law Firms Learn from Other Markets?
Many businesses borrow best practices from other industries. Do law firms do so? Rarely in my experience, and that’s too bad. That point was hammered home reading A Hospital Races To Learn Lessons Of Ferrari Pit Stop (Wall Street Journal, 11/14/06, p. A1), which explains...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Developments in Legal Outsourcing and Offshoring
Legal offshoring and outsourcing is a hot topic. How much is smoke, how much is fire? Joy London and I maintain a list of legal market outsourcing and offshoring. In connection with our October update of the list, we wrote an article, Developments in Legal...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Roundup (11/26/06)
In this roundup: new market research identifies top legal offshore companies, an Excel tip (for serious users), new legal tech new source from down under, and practical pointers on innovation. Outsourcing New market research identifies the top global Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) and Document Process...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
The Impact of Changing Technology on New Discovery Rules
The new federal e-discovery rules take effect on December 1st. How will technology changes affect the application of these rules? A recent software demo caused me to ponder this question. The “reasonably accessible” standard of amended Rule 26(b)(2)(B) guides allocating the burden and cost of...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Kroll Ontrack Acquires Engenium
Kroll Ontrack today acquired concept-search engine maker Engenium. From the press release (11/20/06): “Kroll Ontrack…. today announced the acquisition of Engenium… a leader and pioneer in intelligent search and search-related products. This acquisition signals Kroll Ontrack’s continued commitment to advancing technology that addresses the growing...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Learning about Innovation from the Legal Academy
You don’t often read about legal market innovation in Business Week. Case Study: Access To Justice – Designing a better user experience of the legal system in the Inside Innovation supplement to Business Week (11/27/06) describes an innovative project at the Chicago-Kent College of Law....
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Technology and Legal Secretaries
Starting in the early 1990s, I noticed that secretarial work was changing as a result of widespread lawyer use of PCs. Yet I have seen few articles about this much less smart management reaction. Already in 1991, I thought secretarial roles needed re-thinking. By 2003,...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Harvard Law – Berkman to Research Legal Technology
What can law schools do to help newly minted lawyers be technologically prepared? A LexisNexis-funded study underway at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School seeks to recommend “how next-generation law school curricula can preserve the fundamentals of critical thinking and legal history, while at...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
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