Do Large Law Firms Work Differently from Each Other?
I wonder if lawyers at large law firms practice differently. With all the discussions about strategy and competitive differentiation, I rarely read about how lawyers do their work. And I believe this matters more than the market thinks. What do I mean by how lawyers work? Examples...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
3 min read
What Big Law Can Learn from Alphabet
Google’s restructuring leads the business news this week. The company created a parent company, Alphabet, under which Google Inc. will be the biggest operating unit. Other units will house Nest, life sciences, robotics, and other Google businesses. As the New York Times suggests, this lets Google focus –...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
1 min read
A Short History of Legal Knowledge Management
Earlier this year, Stephen McGarry published an ebook, Leaders in Legal Business, with short essays by many legal market thought leaders. I was honored to write the chapter on legal knowledge management. That chapter is 2000+ words, so longer than I like for a blog...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
2 min read
Why Do GCs Pay Lawyer Rates for Document Review in eDiscovery?
On Thursday, the Second Circuit called into question whether the document review work of contract lawyers in eDiscovery is “legal work”. Read about it in the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg Business of Law. The WSJ quotes a Big Law partner commenting on the case ‘a trend toward classifying [document...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
3 min read
An eDiscovery Conversation with The Hon. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description Closing Keynote: A Conversation with The Hon. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
5 min read
Driving Efficiencies in the Law Practice (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 1:30 pm Panel Session: Driving Efficiencies in the Law Practice Advances in process management and technology – and a changing mindset around...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
3 min read
Legal Operations Professionals – The New Change Agents (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 1:00 pm Panel Session: The New Change Agents A decade ago or so, almost nobody would have looked at legal operations as...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
3 min read
Innovation – New Models for Differentiation in Legal (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 11:15 am Panel Session: Innovation – New Models for Differentiation Pricing pressure and competition are forcing law firms to question every aspect of...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
4 min read
The New Law Firm Competitors: In-House Counsel (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 9:45 am Panel Session: The New Law Firm Competitor: In-House Counsel GCs from Fortune 100 companies share a candid discussion on how...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
7 min read
Critical Issues in Relationship between Lawyers and Clients – Live from Bloomberg Big Law Summit
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 9:10 am Keynote Address: Ann R. Klee, VP Global Operations – Environment, Health & Safety, General Electric Company A maven of the...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
4 min read
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