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,
21 years ago
1 min read
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,
21 years ago
2 min read
Diversity and Law Firm Decision Making
BigLaw is not famous for innovation. Some forward thinking BigLaw CIOs advocate change but meet resistance. One explanation is lack of diversity in law firm management. My friend Eric Mankin is a business innovation expert and writes a regular column on his web site about...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Marketing, Info Overload, and RSS
I have suggested that law firms should provide RSS [really simple syndication] feeds for their alerts and updates. This way, clients can pick and choose what they want to read, eliminate excess e-mail, and help reduce information overload. Yesterday, a Canadian law firm announced that...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Challenges When Implementing New Technology
The current issue of Law Office Computing (Aug/Sep) asks “what is the big challenge when implementing new technology in a large firm?” My answer, appearing in the Asked and Answered column> is below. Until recently, making new technology work properly and efficiently was difficult. Today,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
IBM Opening Up its Full-Text Search
“IBM plans to give away key search technologies for corporate data retrieval that use concepts and facts instead of simpler “keyword” searches” according to a press release. This could have implications in the e-discovery market. An IBM spokesman notes that major players such as Google...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Article Roundup
Ten days ago I wrote about some interesting articles. This summer is proving to have more than the usual number of useful legal technology articles, including an intriguing report in Information Week about e-mail visualization software that could help in e-discovery. E-Discovery. Revealing E-Mail’s Secrets...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
KM Conference – Oct 4-6, Chicago
The Ark Group USA is organizing KM for the Legal Profession in October (at which I will co-conduct a workshop). The conference takes place October 4-6, 2005 in Chicago. Complete information is here (PDF); sessions include: “Strategies and tactics for successfully implementing a KM initiative...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Follow-up on Enterprise Blogging and RSS
I recently suggested that Enterprise blogging and RSS (really simple syndication) could have interesting knowledge management implications. Here is some follow-up. RSS Goes Corporate in Red Herring (July 18, 2005), spotted at LawLibTech) describes the market for and players in enterprise blogging. The article reports...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
More on Blogs as Radar
I have previously suggested that corporations could scan blogs as an early warning system for legal issues. Business Week’s Blogspotting has an interesting post that relates to this idea. Quoting an “experienced corporate blogger,” How corporations track the blogs: A blogger weighs in reports “any...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
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