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KM Now and Where It’s Going (ITLA webinar, June 8 2009)

ILTA’s knowledge management peer group hosts a webinar on June 8th called “Where Is KM Now and Where Is It Going?” The topic will cover the current state of KM and its possible future direction in the context of the global economic crisis. This is...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

General

In BigLaw, Where Every Firm is Above Average

Are large law firms reeling with the rest of the economy? Reading legal headlines since January 1, you would think so. But maybe not. In Survey: Law Firms Don’t Expect to Make Radical Changes the AmLaw Daily reports on a new Altman Weil law firm...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

General, Legal Secretaries - Their Future

Cost Control as Part of AmLaw 200 Turnaround Strategies

Many legal publications and consultants offer advice for large law firms on how to stabilize and recover. Their suggestions focus on lawyer compensation, practice group strategy, alternative billing, and business development. I remain surprised at how little they focus on reducing law firm overhead. Last...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 3 min read

General

Wither Law Firm Marketing?

Through the 1980s, marketing was a four-letter word in most large law firms. By the 1990s, BigLaw had build marketing teams. One survey a couple of years indicated firms were spending 2% of revenue on marketing. Where is marketing today and how has it fared...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 3 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

GC: General Counsel, General Contractor, or Both?

Incisive Legal Intelligence (formerly ALM Research) recently released a legal outsourcing study. I thought The Law Deparment Legal Outsourcing Study, 2008 would quantify the rapid growth of legal process outsourcing (LPO). In fact, it focuses exclusively on law departments outsourcing legal work to law firms....

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Knowledge Management

Call for Respondents to ILTA KM Survey

The ILTA Knowledge Management peer group, in prep for a KM white paper, is gathering data to help assess the state of legal KM. Legal KM professionals, please consider participating. Respond to the ILTA KM survey here. It’s a brief questionnaire. Bonus incentive just for...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

General

Waste a Crisis? What Crisis?

I had hoped that BigLaw would make fundamental changes, prompted by the crisis. Um, what crisis is that exactly? Dan DiPietro, client head of the Law Firm Group of the Citi Private Bank and noted BigLaw commentator, in Recession and Repair (American Lawyer, 1 May...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

General

2009 AmLaw 100 (for FY 2008)

The new Am Law 100 results are in and they are not pretty. Lessons of The Am Law 100: Nothing Grows Forever by Aric Press and John O’Connor (The American Lawyer, April 29, 2009). As I commented last year, BigLaw CIOs who want a seat...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

Interesting Technology

Launch of PBworks Legal Market Wiki Raises Interesting Application Questions

PBworks (formerly PBWiki) launched today (28 April 2009) a legal market version of their signature collaborative Wiki. I had a pre-launch demo and it looks very good. The company already has many AmLaw 100 firm users. A private group of large law firm KM professionals...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Roundup

Roundup of Twitter Posts – April 2009

Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Watch sausage being made and the costs. Suit re Latham fees http://bit.ly/w5jDx law.com. Block billing and high rates – biz as usual. April 24 Has Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

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