Strategic Legal Technology Blog

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

Management and Technology

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

Knowledge Management

Moving from Expertise Location to Expertise Deployment

Can knowledge management move from “nice to have” to “must have?” Tying it to making money is one way. Supplying Labor To Meet Demand in the March 21st issue of Information Week is a must-read for knowledge managers. It begins by describing a system the...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 2 min read

Management and Technology

Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Last Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that companies “have struggled for years to reduce their legal costs, with little success” and that “[n]ow technology is coming to the rescue.” I’ve struggled since then with how to think about this article. On the Case (paid...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 2 min read

Online Legal Services

Outside Capital = Online Legal Services??

Legal market regulation in the UK is on the way to significant liberalization. It will be interesting to see if that affects the development of online legal services. Government to implement key Clementi reforms in LegalIT (March 21) reports that the British government will move...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

Recognizing Innovation in the Legal Market

Notice to legal market innovators: replace the arrows in your back with an award that recognizes your hard work and risk taking. The College of Law Practice Management in concert with Edge International announces The Second Annual InnovAction Awards recognizing innovation in law practices around...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 1 min read

Interesting Technology

Ajax and Hash

No, this is not a post about mixing cleaning powder and food. The Wall Street Journal this week had two articles about interesting technology developments. This is a bit techier than my usual posts, but I was fascinated by both reports. I have recently become...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 2 min read

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Moves Up the Value Chain

Outsourcing Innovation is the cover story of the current issue of Business Week (March 21, 2005). It reports that major companies now outsource R&D, not just manufacturing. Does this have implications for the legal market? I think so. Not long ago, US companies viewed outsourcing...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 2 min read

Knowledge Management

KM, the Innovator’s Dilemma, and New Tools

At Legal Tech a few weeks ago, I moderated a session on clients paying for KM and subsequently posted session notes. That prompted interesting comments from panelist Jeff Rovner, Director of Knowledge Management for the Americas Region, Clifford Chance US LLP. In my follow-up notes,...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 3 min read

Extranets

UK Pilot to Standardize Extranets

I have long been a Marxist about legal market Extranets. If they succeed, they sow their own destruction because in-house counsel will not be willing to log-on to multiple extranets. Now, a group of law firms and investment banks in the UK are piloting a...

Ron Friedmann, 21 years ago 2 min read

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