RFID and Presence Detection
Reading the July/August issue of Law Practice Management magazine, an interesting ad caught my eye. On page 3, 3M corporation advertises RFID to track paper files. RFID means Radio Frequency Identification. This is a passive chip that, when subject to a radio query, broadcasts back...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Make versus Buy for Legal Techology
In my prior post, I reported that Linklaters is building its own knowledge management software. Reading this article prompted me to think about the decision to make versus buy software, a decision most organizations face. Law firms and law departments are no different. For many...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
KM at Linklaters – Developing a Customized System
Continuing my reading of the July 14th issue of Legal IT (UK), I came across another interesting feature article. Knowledge Management: Capturing knowledge describes how Linklaters is creating its own knowledge management software. The firm’s system uses both a taxonomy for classification and full-text searching....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Wither KM?
The July 14th issue of Legal IT (UK) has a feature article by Matthew Parsons of interest to knowledge managers. Knowledge Management: Measuring success reports on KM cutbacks at US firms. The article notes that in March of this year, Jones Day eliminated its 2-year...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
LexisNexis Acquires Applied Discovery
LexisNexis announced in a July 11, 2003 press release that it has acquired Applied Discovery, an e-discovery company. I have always been struck by the seeming fragmentation of the e-discovery and litigation support market. My recollection is that a couple of bigger companies tried a...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Making Law Firm Extranets Work
Many law firms have established extranets designed to share documents and other information with clients. The anecdotal consensus among law firm technology managers is that neither clients nor firm lawyers have used these extranets as much as had been expected. The generally accepted explanation for...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
The Virtual Law Library
Law.com has posted an interesting article from The National Law Journal by Elizabeth D. Kenney, the director of libraries at Dechert in New York. In her article, Revolution or Evolution for Law Libraries, the author offers a useful discussion of the trade-off between the “digital”...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Legal Outsourcing in the News (Again)
The July 2003 issue of Corporate Legal Times in an article titled U.S. Companies Dsicover Cost Savings Down Under, describes how General Mills is saving up to 50% on outside lawyer fees by using Australian and New Zealand law firms to draft US patent applications....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Back to the Future – Imaging Returns
Reading the June 23, 2003 issue of Information Week magazine was a trip down memory lane for me. An article titled Imaging Gets a Second Look reports on renewed interest in imaging. In the early 1990s when I worked at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, I...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
More on How Running Law Firms as a Business Could Affect Clients
Continuing my reading of Law Firm Inc., mentioned in a post earlier this week, I was intrigued by another article titled Audit Your Auditors. Two CPAs offer a list of 10 factors for law firm managers to consider in evaluating/scoring their audit firms. For the...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
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