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General, Law Departments / Client Service, Law Firm Service Delivery

Highlights of the 2013 Altman Weil Chief Legal Officer Survey

Altman Weil, Inc. today released its 2013 Chief Legal Officer Survey. I summarize here key findings and offer some comments. Money is Moving Away from Law Firms. Law department budgets for internal work stayed almost the same from 2012 to 2013, about 44%. But in that same...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 2 min read

General, Innovation and Change Management, Law Firm Service Delivery

BigLaw Musical Chairs: Will Some Firms be Eliminated?

When the music stops in musical chairs, someone has no chair and is out. Are large US law firms playing the game? Many debate the future of large law firms: see the George Beaton blog post and comments at The rise and rise of the NewLaw...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 2 min read

Innovation and Change Management, Knowledge Management

How to Foster Innovation in Law Firms

This is a live post from the Ark Group/Managing Partner’s 9th Annual Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. This session is Practice Innovation and the Profitability Equation: What is Invested in KM? The panelists: Joseph J. Morford Managing Partner, Tucker Ellis LLP Lisa Chamandy, Counsel, Client Service Innovation & Litigation,...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 3 min read

Best Practices, Innovation and Change Management, Knowledge Management, Law Firm Service Delivery

Refining the “Knowledge Advantage” and Getting Back Into Your Clients’ Inner Circle of Trusted Advisors

This is a live post from the Ark Group/Managing Partner’s 9th Annual Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. This session is Refining the “Knowledge Advantage” and Getting Back Into Your Clients’ Inner Circle of Trusted Advisors with Kevin E. Colangelo, Client Relations Officer, Proskauer Rose LLP, [Moderator] Matt...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 3 min read

Innovation and Change Management, Law Firm Service Delivery, Outsourcing

The Speed of Change

What is the speed of change in the legal market? Do we live in a New Normal? At least in the social media and conference sphere, many ask those questions. Several published items yesterday and today address the question, which I report here. *...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 2 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Skadden Lawyers Discuss the Constitutionality of e-Discovery

Last June, Skadden Arps lawyers questioned the constitutionality of current electronic discovery rules in a 2-part article in Law Technology News, Can E-Discovery Violate Due Process? (Part 1 (7 June 2013); Part 2 (10 June 2013)). Intrigued by their reasoning, I wrote a blog post, Is E-Discovery Due Process Argument Just...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 1 min read

Bar Regulation, General

The Future of Law: Who Will Perform and Regulate It? (Live Post from COLPM)

I am at the College of Law Practice Management Futures Conference in Chicago. Stephen Mayson, Director and Professor of Strategy, Legal Services Institute, London, is the keynote presenter. His topic: The Future of Law: Who Will Perform It? Who Will Regulate It? (This is a live post, please...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 6 min read

Notices re this Blog

Upgraded Blog and Website

Over the weekend of September 28-29, 2013, I migrated PrismLegal.com and this Strategic Legal Technology blog to a new website and the current version of WordPress. The new feed is https://prismlegal.com/feed/ but the legacy feed (https://prismlegal.com/wordpress/b2rss2.php) should also work. The good news is that the site looks...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 1 min read

General, Law Firm Staffing, Legal Secretaries - Their Future

Will Law Firms of the Future Have Legal Secretaries?

I initially called this post The Evolving Role of Legal Secretaries. Then I realized that “evolve” suggests a continuous process but what we see today seems a discontinuity, an abrupt change. I am not sure though, that large law firms understand just how profound the...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 2 min read

General

Can We See Scale and Experience Benefits in Law Practice?

Reading the business press, I am struck by how scale and experience can change the fate of companies and industries. Would that we could say the same for law firms. Hardware Is Dead. Software Is Dead in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal points out that “Scale matters more than...

Ron Friedmann, 12 years ago 2 min read

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