First Comes the Selling, Then the Doing?
When it comes to selling, firms increasingly recognize that lawyers need coaching. We can only hope that when it comes to doing the work, law firms recognize the same is true. Video Trains Lawyers Not to Be Boors in the National Law Journal reports that...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
E-discovery and De-duplicating
Newly developed software may prove promising to address the problems of duplicate and near-duplicate documents in discovery. Why are duplicates a problem? First, lawyers may inconsistently tag duplicates or near dups, meaning some versions are designated responsive and some non-responsive, some privileged and some not-privileged....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Changes in Law Firm Management
Continuing with the end-of-year theme of predictions, commentator Adam Smith, Esq. recently asked a panel of fellow bloggers about the future of large law firms. He posed the following question: “”Looking out five to ten years, what will the single most significant change be in...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Contract Management
It’s that time of year for predictions. I have previously suggested that law firms with outsourcing practices have an opportunity to help their clients not just draft complex contracts, but also manage them once signed. In 2005, we will likely see more corporations adopt contract...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Harvard Law Seeks New CIO
Harvard Law School is searching for a new CIO. Will a premier law school have an impact on legal technology? I think not; the academy seems disconnected from the real world in my experience. One of the qualifications listed in the job description: “Very strongly...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
LexisNexis Acquires Interface
Spotted on Rick Klau’s blog, another major acquisition in the legal market. LexisNexis has announced it is acquiring Interface Software, Inc., makers of Interaction software, a client relationship management system (CRM) widely used by large law firms. Over the last few years, both LexisNexis and...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Back to the Future – A Short Legal Tech History
I started my career in legal technology in 1989. For most practical purposes, this means I was in the legal market at the beginning of the PC revolution. And I had many colleagues who shared with me their technology experiences from the prior decades. For...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
A Legal Tech Sea Change?
DC-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP has chosen enterprise resource management software SAP to run key business processes. This may be a first for a US-based firm. According to an SAP press release, “[t]he first phase of Howrey’s implementation will include SAP® solutions for...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Law Firm GCs and KM
Large law firms are hiring general counsels. Will this have an impact on knowledge management? Spurred by Insurers, General Counsel Posts Popping Up at Large Firms in Corporate Counsel magazine (December 2004) reports, citing an Altman Weil study, that “63 percent of the nation’s 200...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Online Legal Services Brief Update
I recently updated the list of online legal services that I maintain. There have been a few changes since the prior update in June. New to the List: UK firm Morgan Cole offers tools to manage corporate employee policies and an employment e-learning service....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
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