Why Perfecting Software is Hard – A Response to My Month with Microsoft
Yesterday in My Month with Microsoft I wrote about my frustrations with Microsoft software. Legal project management expert Steven Levy of Lexician, who spent about 20 years working at MS, wrote a great and thoughtful comment on MS software, which I re-publish here. Steve reminds...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
4 min read
My Month with Microsoft
Periodically I write about technology that increases or decreases my personal productivity. Over the last month I have documented how the Microsoft Office suite and Windows 7 detracts from my personal productivity. I regularly use Microsoft Office 2010 products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. For...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
4 min read
KM Professionals Comment on KM Reincarnated
In my prior post, Knowledge Management Reincarnated, I argued that KM is expanding beyond its core remit today because KM professionals span multiple disciplines, think laterally, and can handle complex problems that fall outside the boundaries of other support functions. Three experienced KM professionals wrote...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
2 min read
Knowledge Management Reincarnated
Last week in KM is Dead – Long Live KM, I suggested that large law firms have moved beyond traditional knowledge management to legal project management (LPM), alternative fee arrangements (AFA), and other endeavors. I also said I would offer a theory for the shift...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
2 min read
KM is Dead – Long Live KM
Knowledge management may not be dead but it certainly has changed. Absent today are previously dominant “pure” or “traditional” legal KM topics such as precedents, forms, work product retrieval, experience location, taxonomies, and the role of practice support lawyers. Instead, knowledge managers now discuss alternative...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
Twitter Roundup – December 2010
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. NLJ reports 2010 lawyer billing rates up ‘only’ 2.7% http://bit.ly/gDX2gE || If that’s post realization, exceeds inflation and most markets 6 Dec Reading ‘Do You Think I Should Go to Law...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
2 min read
Can Lawyers Learn to Love Numbers?
A front-page article in the Friday New York Times raises the issue of the divide between science and humanities. Lurking here a lesson for lawyers. In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture describes Google’s recently released Books Ngram Viewer, which analyzes how often phrases...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Attorney at Work – Good Ideas for Lawyers and Law Firm Managers
We are overwhelmed by information and data. What we lack is the wisdom and insight to take simple steps to improve what we do. So I am pleased to see a new service and website that focuses on the latter rather than the former. Attorney...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
Does Herbert Smith’s Belfast Doc Review Center Portend More Law Factories?
Recently I have been exploring “Law Factory” – the concept that the legal market will offer low cost, industrialized processes for routine work that are separate from “bet the farm” operations for high-stakes matters. An open question is whether the two can co-exist under one...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Strategic Legal Technology Named an ABA Journal 2010 Top 100 Blog
Last week I was honored to learn that this blog, Strategic Legal Technology, is a 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100, the second year in a row for this award . ABA Journal editors “scour the Web to bring you the best and brightest law bloggers...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
1 min read
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