More Corporate Counsel Outsourcing to India
Legal publication The Recorder reports in Outsourcing Reaches Corporate Counsel (8/25/04) that more inhouse counsel are finding ways to use offshore labor. Separately, a recent Business Week article discusses some extraordinary security measures Indian outsourcers are taking that might allay some concerns about confidentiality and...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Law Firm Ancillary Businesses – Follow-up To Orrick Post
Last week I wrote about the possibility that Orrick might provide back-office services to other law firms. That post generated two interesting comments that question and expand on my conclusion that this could be a distraction. On 8/19 fellow blogger Rick Klau commented: Ron –...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Cisco Converges in Europe; Tech a Big Factor
In my estimation, Cisco’s law department is one of the most advanced, both with respect to management generally and to technology specifically. As the company adopts the “DuPont convergence model” in Europe, use of technology and processes will play a big role. In Cisco poised...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
Orrick Considers Tech Support for Other Law Firms
I have written previously about Orrick’s centralized “Global Operations Center” (“GOC”) in Wheeling, WV. The Aug/Sep 2004 issue of Law Firm, Inc. has a good follow-up article (“Location, Location, Location”) about the GOC. Orrick has cut annual operating expenses by $5.6 million by consolidating tech...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
External Drives for On the Road and Backing Up
It’s unusual for me to focus on hardware, but I’ve found a relatively inexpensive device – the SmartDisk Firefly, an external hard drive – that I think is a productivity booster for work on the road and for back ups. PCs typically no longer come...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
“Five by Five” on Technology
Blogger and lawyer Matt Honman has a regular feature in which he asks five experts to provide five answers to a single question. He recently asked “What five new technologies should all lawyers incorpoate into their practices, but probably won’t?” The five replies are interesting...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
The Trouble with Taxonomies
Taxonomies are an integral element of many large law firms’ knowledge management programs. But building, maintaining, and using a taxonomy can be hard. In my recent post on Developments in Full Text Searching, I cited Sharon Flank, a computational linguist, of DataStrategy. Sharon has just...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
E-billing Ignores the Elephant in the Room
LawNet recently published an e-billing survey, which is well-done and worth reading. It reminds me that client focus on e-billing is misplaced. If general counsels want to reduce outside counsel costs, they need to talk about the proverbial elephant in the room. The invisible...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Sources of Large Law Firm Growth
“Growth – real growth – depends on innovation. Oh sure, a big acquisition can inflate a company’s top line, but it’s hardly fair to call this growth; agglomeration would be a better word.” So writes Gary Hamel and Gary Gets in the current issue (July-August...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
3 min read
Developments in Full Text Searching
Regular readers of my blog know that I have a long-standing interest in the potential of full-text search technology for both litigation support and knowledge management applications in large law firms. With the seeming explosion of new companies offering advanced full-text approaches, I have been...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
4 min read
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