Strategic Legal Technology Blog

Wall St. IM Records Requirement and Future E-Discovery Issues

Yesterday both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported that NASD will now require its members to save instant messages for at least three years (just as they must e-mail messages). The same articles mention that NYSE had imposed the same requirements...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Extranets

Large UK Law Departments to Work Together on Tech Delivery Standards for Law Firms

In the current issue of Legal Technology Insider, Charles Christian reports that “guru Richard Susskind has revealed the existence of a new legal technology initiative by nine major investment banking groups, including Deutsche Bank and Barclays Capital. The objective is to agree [on] IT standards...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 2 min read

Outsourcing

Technology Outsourcing Example – Document Management

My prior posts on outsourcing focused on cost. But not all outsourcing is driven only by cost – functionality can be the key factor. Yesterday I had occasion to be in touch with Curt Meltzer, CIO of Dorsey & Whitney, which reminded me that his...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 2 min read

Management and Technology

Lawyers and the Use of Technology

Today I had lunch with a friend who is in-house counsel at a large company; he was formerly an associate at a large law firm. He is tech savvy and we spoke about how lawyers use technology. My friend made an interesting observation, which I...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Outsourcing

More on Off-Shore Outsourcing

In my May 30th posting, I discussed Orrick’s centralization of its back office in W. Va. and raised the possibility of law firms and departments sending legal work offshore. An article titled Down and Out in White-Collar America in the June 23, 2003 issue of...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Online Legal Services

Online Legal Services for Consumers

Online legal services for consumers are useful and continue to abound, yet may pose serious problems. That’s the conclusion of two separate and perhaps contradictory articles: Plunging Into Paperwork – Online services can help you draft a will — if you’re careful from the June...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 2 min read

Interesting Technology

E-Learning in the Legal Market

Also from LegalIT, referenced in my prior post: Chrissy Burns of Blake Dawson Waldron in Sydney writes an interesting article about the role of e-learning in LegalIT. Her article, E-learning: Say goodbye to the classroom, describes a booming market in e-learning and potential opportunities this...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Online Legal Services

Online Legal Services Update – New Allen & Overy Offerings

The UK publication LegalIT in a June article titled Online legal services: Exploiting expertise, reports on new online legal services by Allen & Overy. For anyone interested in online legal services, this is a useful article. The article notes that little has happened with online...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

Re-engineering knowledge work?

Cindy Thurston, Director of Knowledge Development, at Shaw Pittman LLP, alerted me to an interesting column by Tom Davenport, A Measurable Proposal in the June issue of CIO magazine. In the column, Prof. Davenport explores the idea that one can apply process improvement methods to...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

KM Succeeds in the Not For Profit World

Earlier this week I read an interesting article in the McKinsey Quarterly called Knowledge management comes to philanthropy that appears in 2003 Number 2 (for the full-text, you will need to register). I was planning to post a summary when I received a very nice...

Ron Friedmann, 23 years ago 2 min read

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