Paralegals in India
Legal Research And Back-Office Work To Go Offshore Next in Information Week (12/9/03) reports that “[l]egal research and other back-office work carried out at law firms may be among the next set of white-collar jobs to move offshore in big numbers.” The article quotes a...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Outsourcing in the News
Two recent articles about sending work offshore caught my eye. In New Economy, Companies sending work abroad are learning cultural sensitivity – to their American customers, the New York Times (December 9, 2003) reports that some company’s that have outsourced work to offshore locations...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Creating Value form Knowledge Management: Making it External and Syndication
LegalIT reports in Top Scottish firms pool know-how on KM project that several Scottish firms have teamed to create a “groundbreaking KM project to share knowledge across sectors.” This is the first time that “a large group of competing firms have decided to pool and...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Social Networking Software as a type of KM and IBM’s Web Fountain
Yesterday the New York Times carried two interesting articles that relate to knowledge management. Markets Shaped by Consumers reports on a constant dialog between producers and consumers about products consumers want. In the past, the dialog was primarily via consumers modifying products (e.g, the first...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Deciding on an Extranet Strategy
Derek Smith and Peter J. Ozolin of Paul Hastings provide a good overview and analysis of law firm Extranets in Are Client Extranets Worth the Expense? published in the National Law Journal (December 1, 2003) and at law.com. They explain that Extranets are not necessarily...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Corporate Counsel Outsource Work, Bypassing Law Firms
Several of my prior posts discuss the potential to outsource legal work overseas. I was therefore interested to read Legal-Work Outsourcing Cuts Costs; DuPont’s pitch to in-house counsel: Save millions by sending legal work to companies other than law firms from the New Jersey Law...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Is Electronic Evidence Mandatory?
At some point, perhaps soon, it may be malpractice if litigators do not ask for and obtain digital data from opposing counsel. An article by Patrick F. Dorrian, Jurists Offer Perspective, TIps on Electronic Discovery in the November 2003 issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel examines...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
The Impact of Technology on How We Communicate
As technology has evolved over the last few decades, we have an increasing choice for how we communicate: writing a letter and having it delivered, leaving voice mail messages (intentionally, by calling at off hours), e-mailing a message, transmiting a fax, sending an instant message,...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
3 min read
Legal Technology’s Shortcomings – or Not?
In my prior post I noted that in celebration of Law Technology News’ 10th anniversary edition (October 2003), former managing editor Robert J. Ambrogi posed two questions to a dozen plus people, including me, who are deeply involved with legal technology. In The Future, The...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Impact of Legal Technology in the Next Decade
In celebration of Law Technology News’ 10th anniversary edition (October 2003), former managing editor Robert J. Ambrogi posed two questions to a dozen plus people, including me, who are deeply involved with legal technology. In The Future, The Past, Ambrogi asks one question about the...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
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