Blogs In the New York Times (again)
On May 19th, the New York Times reported on wikis (a shared web space in which anyone in a group can add and delete content). Today, the Times reports on the growing popularity of blogs in the corporate workplace in an article titled “Blogs in...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
The High Cost of Litigation, the Contribution of Technology
A recently posted article in the Automated Lawyer area of law.com titled The Litigation Arms Race describes the ever increasing costs of litigation. The focus is on product liabilities contingency fee work, but the lessons may well apply across a wide range of commercial litigation....
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Applying the Internal Discipline of Budgeting to Client Service
The Summer 2003 issue of Law Firm Inc., a new American Lawyer Media magazine about the business of law firms and targeted at senior managers of law firms, carries an article titled When Culture Clashes with the Bottom Line. It describes the benefits of budgeting...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
The Future of Legal Secretaries
This article first appeared in the May 12, 2003 issue of Legal Times ABSTRACT: Advances in legal technology have caused the role of secretaries to change significantly. Law firms have opportunities to re-think how they manage secretaries to save money and improve internal and client...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
9 min read
Blogs Create Potential KM Challenges
As my blog grows, I wonder about some of the KM implications of blogging. Of course, I am still relatively new (one month) to blogging and have yet to explore the various software options. But it strikes me that blogs are yet another source of...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
New Ways to Reach Out to Clients
Yesterday I noticed an ad in the Wall Street Journal for a new service that deliver news and quotes via instant messaging (IM). I tried it just now and it seems pretty useful and unobtrusive, at least so far. A few years ago, most law...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
The Limitations of Full Text Searching
Full text retrieval and semantic analysis software are useful software applications in the legal market. Software developers are making available increasingly sophisticated techniques to work with in very large document collections to identify potentially relevant ones and classify or otherwise automatically analyze them. These tools...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Law Firms Get in on the Action (that is, online compliance)
In my prior two postings, I discuss two companies offering products designed to help prevent litigation by assisting with compliance issues. I observed that this is a space that law firms generally do not occupy. That is not entirely true. Law firm Bryan Cave is...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
2 min read
Preventive Litigation Support?
Picking up on the theme of my last posting concerning compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley, I’ve been struck over the last few weeks by the number of vendors offering “compliance solutions.” More interestingly, I wonder if this suggests a trend toward “preventive litigation support.” One announcement that...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
Online Compliance System Offered by J.P. Morgan Chase
A short piece in the June 16th Information Week titled Get A Handle On Risk reports on new Web-based self-assessment software offered by J.P. Morgan Chase to help companies comply with the regulatory requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. I was intrigued by this since it sounded like...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
1 min read
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