“Looking for Law Firm Innovation”
CIOs often champion law firm innovation but frequently face a tough battle. Why? I’ve advocated innovation as a large law firm manager, legal technology consultant, and software marketer. Getting buy-in is a challenge. Eric Mankin, an expert in business innovation and an old friend whom...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Offshore Document Review
Document review in e-discovery is costly. Contract lawyers are less expensive than associates. Going offshore can lower costs yet more. I await published case studies detailing offshore document reviews. In the mean time, several offshore companies or US companies with offshore operations now offer discovery...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
More EED Consolidation
LexisNexis announced yesterday (7/24/06) that it has acquired DataFlight, maker of Concordance software and CaseSoft, maker of CaseMap. From a L-N press release: “The addition of Los Angeles-based Dataflight (www.dataflight.com) enables LexisNexis to offer attorneys evidence management capabilities via the Concordance solution. Law firms, corporations,...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Computers Pick Outside Counsel Better than People Do
Who’s better at making decisions – people or PCs? Maybe We Should Leave That Up to the Computer (NYTimes, 7/18/06, c4) reports that professor Chris Snijders of Holland argues that computers often make better decisions than people. He has experimental data supporting this hypothesis. Before...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Call for Law Firm Collaboration Case Studies
Ark Group will host its annual knowledge management conference in Chicago on October 10-11. I’m helping develop the program. We’re looking for a law firm willing to present a case study on new collaboration approaches, especially blogs or wikis. A new generation of collaboration tools...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Little Traction for Legal RFPs
It seems that RFPs to buy legal services are like alternative billing – much discussed but limited impact. I’ve suggested in prior posts that auctions relate to BigLaw technology because “price pressure should drive even top law firms to think more creatively about how they...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Working Virtually – Another Visit
A recent Business Week article explores how the “rise of mobile workers has companies unloading space and rethinking what’s left.” Square Feet. Oh, How Square! (7/3/06) opens with the fact that on any given day, 40% of employees are not in the office. They are...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Opentext Seeks to Acquire Hummingbird
In May, Hummingbird, one of two main document management vendors to large law firms, announced it was being acquired by Symphony Technology Group. That announcement may not, however, be the last word. On July 5th, Opentext, an enterprise content management (ECM) systems company, announced “its...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Roundup (7/9/06)
This roundup looks at some recent articles on outsourcing, knowledge management, and e-discovery. Outsourcing LPOs here head for consolidation in IndiaTimes (5/22/06) reports that legal process outsourcing “may be headed for a phase of consolidation in its bid to move up the value chain.” “Large...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
Good Legal Offshoring Article
“Offshoring legal work to India could transform how lawyers’ services are bought and sold in North America.” That is the premise explored in a new and useful article in the National, the journal of the Canadian Bar Association. In Over the Horizon (June 2006,...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
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