EDD Lawyers
The explosive growth of electronic discovery may be leading to a new position: large firm lawyers who are discovery specialists. Law Technology News reports in the April 2005 issue that Sullivan & Cromwell has recently hired an experienced lawyer, Thomas Barnett, as special counsel focusing...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Legal Technology Links
I am often surprised that I have never found a web site with a comprehensive set of links to legal technology resources. I have taken a very small step in this direction. Over the weekend, I updated my “Useful Links” page and organized into Publications,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
KM Expert Joins Linklaters
According to LegalIT, knowledge management expert Matthew Parsons has joined Linklaters. The article also reports that Parons “will also be in charge of Linklaters’ high-profile online legal services unit, Blue Flag.” I have long believed that KM would fare better if it were client facing...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Profit and Tech Differences: US v UK
Last week blogger Adam Smith, Esq. wrote that per partner profits at large UK firms are much lower than at large US law firms. It’s interesting to consider why and if technology plays a role. In a follow-up post, he offers explanations from several readers....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
List of Outsourced Legal Services
Fellow blogger Joy London of excited utterances and I have assembled a list of outsourced legal services. Joy and I will jointly maintain the list, which is also available from the Resources pull-down menu on my main web site. We did this because we...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
KM Gains Ground in Corporate Market
A new survey by Bain & Company shows that knowledge management has gained ground over the last few years in corporate America. A Bain press release on April 11th reports on the management consultancy’s 2005 Management Tools & Trends survey. As a former Bain consultant,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
The Real Challenge of Technology is Change
Last week I spoke at the ABA Tech Show on “Where Are We Going,” in which Toby Brown, Marc Lauritsen, and I talked about the future of legal technology. My key point was that while new technology often seems hard, the real difficulty typically revolves...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Legal Offshoring May be Harder Than It Looks
Lawyers may be safe from offshoring, at least for a while longer. That’s my conclusion after talking to Alok Aggarwal, co-founder of Evalueserve (EVS), a company in India that helps US companies write patent applications. I had a very interesting conversation with Alok a few...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
The Billable Hour
Fellow blogger Adam Smith, Esq. has assembled his second panel of “savvy bloggers” to address the question of the future of the billable hour. The assembled responses are an interesting read about the basic economic model of the legal profession. My response to his question...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Legal Ethics and Legal Technology
New legal technology frequently raises ethics concerns. A new Legal Ethics blog covers ethics and, this week, in connection with the ABA TechShow has a focus on legal technology and legal ethics. Ben Cowgill is the lawyer-author of Legal Ethics; for this week’s focus on...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
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