Do the US and UK Spend Too Much on Legal Services?
Big US and UK companies have cut spending on BigLaw. Has anyone stepped back to ask how much should they should spend? The current US debate on health helps illuminate…
Reducing Legal Costs Beyond Tinkering with Price
We may or may not be in the midst of a legal market revolution. Many an article suggests that general counsels are slashing costs. At best, however, the data are…
New Article Explains Role of Technology in Legal Outsourcing
A new article nicely explains how law firms should think about the use of technology when outsourcing. Technology and Outsourcing (Texas Bar Journal, July 2009, PDF) is by Michael Bell,…
My Current Personal Productivity Favorites
Today I re-visit my favorite personal productivity technology tools. I’ll do another post about “technology productivity blackholes”, tech issues that suck time out of my day. Screen Real Estate…
Theories on Why the Most Profitable Law Firms Don’t Blog
A blog post over at the Drug and Device Law blog sparks me to return to the issue of BigLaw blogging. Two lawyers, one from Jones Day and one from…
Roundup of Twitter Posts – June 2009
Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. RT @jordan_law21 New at Law21: measuring lawyer productivity: http://tr.im/qjpD || also consider actual outcome…
KM Holding Steady but Not Enough is Being Baked In (ILTA Survey Results)
How is KM doing in the economic crisis? Are law firms taking advantage of other law firm departments to support KM (“baking KM into processes”)? I am the author of…
Law Firm Views of Legal Outsourcing – A Survey and Report
A recently released report by ValueNotes, a respected analyst firm, sheds light on what US and UK law firms think about legal outsourcing. Over at my employer’s blog, I co-authored…
Software v Humans in Doc Review – A Statistical Study by Equivio
A new e-discovery study by Equivio statistically compares human versus software performance in designating responsive documents. The results are worth reading. I’ve argued that litigators and judges should rely on…
Legal Outsourcing Tipping Point?
Legal outsourcing has made mainstream and legal media news for years. After blogging on legal process outsourcing (LPO) articles regularly I stopped because there were so many. Two articles in…
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