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 the answer. The US spends far more on health care than other developed countries yet...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
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 still anecdotal. GCs are, at most, tinkering with pricing rather than removing costs. By “tinkering...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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, founder and managing principal in Fronterion, L.L.C., a legal outsourcing advisory firm. It’s a good...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
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 and Multiple Instances of Application Windows. For me, ample screen space is the most important...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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 Dechert, write this blog jointly. By now, blogs are so popular that many observers blame...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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 v. expected / hoped for RT @glambert ‘Alternative Fees – “How To” Tech’ – http://bit.ly/NFYQK...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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 a just-released ILTA survey that answers these and other questions. In June 2006, Chris Boyd,...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
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 a post, What Law Firms Think about Legal Outsourcing. It summarizes key findings of ValueNotes’...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
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 statistical analysis to determine the the most reliable and accurate approach to reviewing documents. In...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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 the Times Online today, however, caught my eye. A major multi-national has gone public about...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Archives
Categories
- Alternative Legal Provider (44)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) (57)
- Bar Regulation (13)
- Best Practices (39)
- Big Data and Data Science (14)
- Blockchain (10)
- Bloomberg Biz of Law Summit – Live (6)
- Business Intelligence (21)
- Contract Management (21)
- Cool Legal Conferences (13)
- COVID-19 (11)
- Design (5)
- Do Less Law (40)
- eDiscovery and Litigation Support (165)
- Experience Management (12)
- Extranets (11)
- General (194)
- Innovation and Change Management (188)
- Interesting Technology (105)
- Knowledge Management (229)
- Law Department Management (20)
- Law Departments / Client Service (120)
- Law Factory v. Bet the Farm (30)
- Law Firm Service Delivery (128)
- Law Firm Staffing (27)
- Law Libraries (6)
- Legal market survey featured (6)
- Legal Process Improvement (27)
- Legal Project Management (26)
- Legal Secretaries – Their Future (17)
- Legal Tech Start-Ups (18)
- Litigation Finance (5)
- Low Cost Law Firm Centers (22)
- Management and Technology (179)
- Notices re this Blog (10)
- Online Legal Services (64)
- Outsourcing (141)
- Personal Productivity (40)
- Roundup (58)
- Structure of Legal Business (2)
- Supplier News (13)
- Visual Intelligence (14)