A Brief History of Legal KM
I am writing a book chapter on knowledge management and preparing for my 10th Annual Ark KM conference panel on ’10 Years Gone: From Content to Tools to Productivity’. To prepare for both, I wrote a brief history of legal KM in tabular format, below. Beyond wanting to...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
Meet Your New Lawyer, IBM Watson
Will IBM Watson be your new lawyer? Perhaps someday. For now, I tackle an easier question: what role can Watson play in Big Law? I speculate here so welcome comments and corrections. Last week at the International Legal Technology Association annual conference an IBM Watson senior manager presented to an invitation-only meeting of Global...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
ILTA Talk Preview: Legal Inflection Point: Innovate Now
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference begins this weekend in Nashville. Here is a brief preview of the panel on which I am speaking on Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014, at 130pm CDT. The panel is Legal Industry Inflection Point: The Time for Innovation Is...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
Big Law Changing or Being Disrupted?
The legal market has seen a running debate since the economic crash: is Big Law being disrupted? My short answer is no, it’s only changing. It’s not the three conferences in February alone on this question that prompt me to write today. Rather, it’s the appearance...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
3 min read
What is the Impact of a Low Cost Center When Law Firms Merge?
Earlier this week Kevin Colangelo of Elevate Services wrote a nice blog post, The Business of Law: Addressing Law Firms’ Concerns Over “Control” in Managed Services Relationships. He explains the benefits of outsourcing middle office support over building a captive and addresses lawyers’ concerns with control. News...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
2 min read
Will Low Cost Centers become a Big Law Norm?
Another large law firm announced today the opening of a low-cost service center. Torys is opening in Halifax. The Globe & Mail in Bay Street law firm launches legal ‘incubator’ in Halifax reports that the “office will be charged with developing new, more efficient ways of doing this kind...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
Legal Knowledge Management (KM) Trends Today
by Joshua Fireman & Ron Friedmann INTRODUCTION My business partner Joshua Fireman and I recently co-moderated a roundtable of large, NYC-based law firms to discuss legal knowledge management trends. HP Autonomy hosted the event with Matt Cleverdon, Solutions Manager: Legal & Professional Services, and Dan Carmel,...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
6 min read
Does Citing Professionalism Protect Bad Lawyer Habits?
The legal press and blogs lit up this week when Dentons decided not to report profits per equity partner to the American Lawyer. The PEP discussion I leave to others. I found more interesting a reason Dentons gives: “a focus on profit undermines the differences between the practice of...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
Sizing the New, More Diverse Legal Market
Jordan Furlong’s recent blog post, An Incomplete Inventory of NewLaw, spurred an interesting dialog on Twitter among Liam Brown, George Beaton, Jordan, and me. We discussed the size of the NewLaw market. I reproduce, in chronological order, the relevant Tweets. Before any comments, introductions… Liam Brown...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support
Today I presented at the ALA 2014 annual conference on Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support. The slides are below. I previously provided a preview of the talk in my March 2014 blog post, Steps to Survive the Coming Competition. Topics I cover include new forms of competition, steps...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
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