Strategic Legal Technology Blog

GE – Online Auction and Best Practices

I have written before about GE using auctions to buy legal services. Corporate Legal Times reports GE recently used an online auction to choose its final firms. Bidding Wars (Sept 2005) reports that GE used 500 firms last year. After a cut based on quality,...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Interesting Technology

SAP’s Shot Across the Bow

SAP, the enterprise software company, has an unusual ad in the current American Lawyer magazine – a shot across the bow for law firm financial software vendors in my opinion The ad is an 8-page essay themed with a Hegelian synthesis of law practice and...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

An Easy Approach to Client-Facing KM

I frequently suggest that law firms make knowledge management client-facing. There is an easy but overlooked way to do so. Secondment: “the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere.” Some law firms second lawyers to clients. Why not second a...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

E-discovery Froth Again?

A leading electronic evidence discovery vendor may be changing ownership structure. The August 26th Transaction Granted Early Termination published by the FTC (PDF) lists private equity investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, e-discovery vendor Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc., and EED founder and CEO John Jesson....

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

List of Outsourced Legal Services – Latest Update

Fellow blogger Joy London of excitedutterances and I have updated out list of Outsourced Legal Services. In addition Joy, offers an interesting analysis of the market to outsource legal services in India. Our list now has almost 30 entries, a mix of companies known to...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

Law Tech Forum – NYC, Nov 3-4

Mark your calendars for a very promising legal technology conference. Marcus Evans is organizing its first LawTech Forum in NYC November 3-4. The program looks excellent. Topics include Benchmarking & Quantifying the Value of IT & Technology Effectively using Technology to Increase Productivity Using Technology...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support, Visual Intelligence

Another E-Discovery Tool

We in the legal market know about the e-discovery explosion. The shock waves now reach outside legal. MetaLincs Debuts Discovery Software in the 8/22 issue of eWeek magazine describes new e-discovery software. I’ve been reading eWeek for years and recall only one or two prior...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Interesting Technology

Report from ILTA Conference

I could not be at the ILTA (formerly LawNet) conference in Phoenix this week, to my regret. My friend and business partner, Shy Alter, CEO of ii3, however, is attending and provides a “highlights” report. Shy writes: Microsoft is in the house: Looking at the...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Technology to Control Litigation Costs

The August Corporate Legal Times reports on ways to reduce litigation costs. Technology plays a big role and one of my favorite approaches – decision trees – is featured. GCs Offer Strategies for Reining in Litigation Costs reports on a recent general counsel roundtable. The...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

KM as Capturing Best Practices

I recently visited DC-based 60-lawyer Spriggs & Hollingsworth, which built an innovative case management system that illustrates how knowledge management can be embedded into a process. To to support the firm’s complex litigation practice, a substantial portion of which involves pharmaceutical product-liability claims and...

Ron Friedmann, 20 years ago 2 min read

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