Embedded Law Systems
I have previously suggested that corporate cost pressures will cause inhouse counsel to seek “embedded law systems,” that is, software that automatically detects possible legal problems. A recent press release by Aungate and an article on law firm outsourcing practices cause me to re-visit this...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Photographic Memory and KM
Many newspapers and magazines have reported on the new Google Desktop Search. What I find interesting, and somewhat disturbing, is Google’s positioning of this tool as a “photographic memory.” Google now has a beta version of software that allows searching the contents of the local...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Approaches to KM
Joy London posted in Excited Utterances that Paul Hastings is hosting a vendor-sponsored luncheon roundtable (sponsors are Practice Technologies and Recommind). This should be an interesting session and nice follow-on to an article that Peter Ozolin, CKO of Paul Hastings recently wrote. In the September...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
NYC Firm Outsources Word Processing
The Executive Director of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, James Lantonio, reports in an article in Legal IT that his firm’s experiment with offshoring word processing is successful so far. A key factor in the firm’s decision to outsource word processing to India was the...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Tech Budgets for 2005 and the “New”
Most law firms are at work on their 2005 budgets. In considering technology budgets, it’s interesting to ponder when something “new” is no longer new. This is no mere philosophic question; I believe the answer affects how firms make decisions. I started thinking about “newness”...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
Update on Standardizing Extranets
I recently posted about a new, single platform Extranet from Australia called nSynergy. Three reliable sources in Australia suggest this is probably not going to take the market by storm. The reports from my sources: “Apparently, Telstra continues to use the predecessor system to nSynergy...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Accenture Sends Legal Work to Mauritius
Sending work offshore to India has been a staple of the general and the legal press. Now comes an example of a large company relying on lawyers in the African island-country of Mauritius. The Corporate Legal Times (September 2004) reports in The Mauritius Solution that...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Outlook as a Knowledge Hub – Upcoming Webinar
My client ii3 will host a Webinar on October 14th on “A Fresh Outlook – MS Outlook as a Knowledge Hub.” Attendance is free but registration is required. Panelists include Teresa Grote, CIO of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and Ted Graham, Worldwide Director of Knowledge...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Interesting Q&A on Portals
Last June, my client ii3, inc. hosted a Webinar on Information and Knowledge Portals. Panelists included Jamie Booth, CIO of Hunton & Williams and Margaret Grottenthaler, a partner at Stikeman Elliott who spearheads KM at the firm. An interesting written Q&A follow-up is available. In...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Managing Relationship Capital
Fellow blogster Jerry Lawson and I recently exchanged e-mail messages about bloggers asking for links. That led to an interesting discussion about relationship management generally. Our shared observation is that, among other challenges of law firm CRM (customer relationship management) is that lawyers have limited...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
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