Strategic Legal Technology Blog

Online Legal Services

Wither Online Legal Services?

In the BigLaw market, what is the fate of online legal services such as interactive advisory systems? It does not look good now but I am optimistic longer term . Five Year Review Back to the Future in LegalIT (UK) provides a great perspective on...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Business Intelligence

Another Good BI Article

Business intelligence continues to be a hot law firm management and legal technology topic. The cover story of the current issue of Law Firm Inc. is on BI. And the October ILTA white paper (PDF) has another outstanding BI article by John Alber of Bryan...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

What’s on a CIO’s Mind

My friend and colleague, Shy Alter, CEO of ii3, Inc., has created the latest in his great productions of ii3 TV. This one, What’s on a CIO’s Mind, interviews 15 CIOs. Shy traveled to the ITLA 2005 conference last August in Phoenix where he interviewed...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

New E-Discovery Law Firm

A boutique law firm has just formed that will focus on e-discovery. New Law Firm Targets E-Discovery Angst on law.com (in The Recorder) reports that a new, four lawyer, virtual firm “will offer strategic advice to businesses on improving the management of their digital information...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

DuPont Legal Model and KM

An upcoming teleconference features DuPont’s legal model and knowledge management. Spotted on LegalLines, the Montague Institute is sponsoring a teleconference, Dollars & Cents of KM: The DuPont Legal Model Story: “Featured guests are Marybeth Davies, Paralegal Manager, and Pam Martin, IT Manager, for DuPont Legal...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Online Legal Services

UK Legal Reform Moves Forward

Soon investors will likely be able to buy law firms in the UK. That should be good news for legal market innovation. Legal Week reports on October 17th that the UK government is pressing ahead with the Clementi Commmission proposed reforms, which would allow 100%...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Pillsbury Adds Outsourcing Consulting

A Law Firm Adds Another Shingle: Consultant in the New York Times (10/14/05) reports that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has expanded its legal outsourcing practice to provide outsourcing consulting. Query: have these consultants analyzed their own firm’s operations? “Lawyers at Pillsbury, apparently trying to climb...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

The Challenge of Client Facing KM Systems

Last week at the Ark KM conference in Chicago, Joshua Fireman of ii3, Inc. and I co-led a workshop on making KM client facing. A dozen plus experienced knowledge management professionals participated and developed several potential plans. Joshua and I summarized the key issues of...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

IT ‘Tude (Guilty until Proven Innocent)

I’m no mystery shopper, but I can still report on the bad attitude of some law firm IT support staff. I visit many law firms as a consultant, conference attendee, or friend. Two incidents are small but telling. At one firm, three visitors, all using...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Online Legal Services

Online Legal Service in Action

An October 5th press release (PDF) reports that Mavent has supplied Fannie Mae with an expert system to review loans for compliance with various statutues, regs, and guidelines. According to the release “The Mavent Expert System is a comprehensive automated solution that submits loan data...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 2 min read

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