Possible KM Cutback at Freshfields
Law firm knowledge management leader Freshfields is considering KM cutbacks and re-organization. Freshfields profits drive targets Italian partners and City back-office (LegalWeek, 10/20/06) reports that the firm may reduce staff to enhance profits. Freshfields has “put forward proposals to review its London back office functions...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
IT: Innovation Driver or Barrier?
BigLaw has become more business-like but much still sets them apart from corporations. One differentiator is the role of information technology (IT) in innovation. Innovation expert Eric Mankin‘s IT & Innovation: Out Of Sync? in Optimize magazine (Oct 2006) explains that IT professionals were a...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Interpreting the AmLaw Tech 2006 Survey
Law Firm, Inc. has published the 2006 AmLaw Tech Survey (11th Annual). What do we make of the findings? “The technology chiefs of the Am Law 200 firms who responded report that they are tackling a bevy of new projects that update old concerns and...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Incremental Innovation
Should innovation be sudden, abrupt, and revolutionary? Or should it be incremental? Nicolas Carr, author of the Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” that stirred much debate, now questions the shibboleth that “If innovation is a good that companies should pursue, more innovation is...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Roundup (10/15/06)
In this roundup: cost savings in e-disccovery, an argument against using decision trees for litigation risk analysis; how White & Case promotes working virtually; the first legal market “mashup”; and more bad proposed bar rules. E-Discovery (EED) E-Mail Analytics Eases Burden of Discovery in law.com...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
3 min read
Lawyers’ Duty of Care in EED
The current issue of Law Technology News has an excellent roundtable discussion on what lawyers must do to ensure that EED processing works. Not addressed however, is an equally interesting question: the duty of care for lawyers reviewing documents. EDD Showcase: Worst Case Scenario (Oct...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
A New Approach to Work Product Retrieval and Search
Another live report from the Ark KM conference in Chicago about an innovative approach to search and workproduct retrieval. Session title: Linking KM & DM Systems at Skadden Arps. Presenters: Charmaine Polvara, Knowledge Systems Manager and Rudy DeFelice, CEO of Practice Technologies. Skadden did not...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
An Empirical Comparison of 3 Legal Market Work Product Retrieval Products
I’m still at the Ark KM conference in Chicago. Ali Shahidi, the CTO of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is presenting a fascinating empircial comparison of three work product retrieval solutions. This is another “real time” post. The firm has 3 KM products in production:...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
3 min read
KM at Jenner & Block (Ark KM Conference Real-Time Report)
This is a bit of an experiment. I’m at the Ark KM conference in Chicago now and am taking notes and will post in real time with little editing. The current session (10am Central) is The Expanding Surface of KM by Brent Kidwell of Jenner...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
5 min read
Innovative Law Departments – 2006
InsideCounsel magazine (formerly Corporate Counsel) reports on 10 innovative law departments in what appears now to be an annual feature. The 10 Most Innovative Legal Departments in Corporate America (Sept. 2006, PDF) focuses on new but simple solutions to common law department problems. This year,...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
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