Strategic Legal Technology Blog

If You are a Legal Market Innovator, Earn Recognition with an InnovAction Award

If you innovate, earn recognition. The College of Law Practice Management (I am a trustee) sponsors the InnovAction Award. InnovAction honors innovation in law practice management. Law firms, law departments, and other legal service providers (but not vendors) can apply. Innovation can range from creative...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

BigLaw Staff Attorneys – Selecting the Right Resource to Solve Legal Problems

In Latest Round of Cuts, Dechert Lays Off Staff Attorneys (The Legal Intelligencer, 26 Feb 09) raises the question of how clients should staff matters. The article discusses the economics of staff attorneys versus associates. A more interesting question is the functional differences between them...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

The Sorry State of Law Department Legal Tech

ILTA released this month its 2008 Law Department Survey. I find the results shocking. Click here fr the ILTA 2008 Law Department Survey. 45 law departments responded. More than 95% are companies with at least $1bil in annual revenue. ILTA law department members probably embrace...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Law Departments / Client Service

Why General Counsels are Like People on a Diet

Another publication, another article about law departments getting tough on costs. It sure seems that general counsels are like people on a diet. From personal observation and articles about dieting, here’s what I conclude: People talk much more about dieting than actually doing it When...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Management and Technology

A New Legal Tech Magazine

I recently received a new legal technology magazine in the mail. I was surprised because I had no prior notice of it. And I was disappointed. I was going to remain silent about my reaction to NextGen_Law, published by the Daily Journal Corporation because...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

General

What’s a JD Worth?

Last November I wrote JD as Job Credential for non-Law Jobs: Mistaking Cause and Effect?. That post led to an interesting e-mail exchange with Doug Cornelius, a lawyer and blogger (KMSpace and, as of 2009, at Compliance Building). With Doug’s permission, I posted our exchange...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Law Firm Lay Offs – Are E-Discovery Specialists Being Hit?

Law firm lay offs have cut wide and deep. At a legal knowledge management lunch today, we were wondering how law firm EDD staff have fared. Hours later, I had an answer – and it surprised me. I’ve gotten to know David Cowen of the...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Low Cost Law Firm Centers, Outsourcing

Law Firm Competition in a Cost Conscious Era

The legal press loves to pit US and UK firms against one another. This week, evidence of another dimension in that competition. Large UK law firms have embraced low cost, offshore operations more enthusiastically than US firms. View from the Top – David Childs, global...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

Law Firm Service Delivery, Legal Secretaries - Their Future

Toward More Rational Law Firm Lay-offs

It’s hardly news that a US or UK law firm lays off lawyers and staff. Hogan & Hartson’s buyout of selected staff my eye. Hogan & Hartson offers buyouts to 240 staffers (National Law Journal, 10 Feb 2009) reports that the firm is offering buyouts...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

Measuring the Consistency of Legal Documents

Transactional lawyers spend huge amounts of time drafting and negotiating documents. Yet few have the tools to assess how their documents compare to similar ones drafted by other lawyers. That is changing. My former consulting client, Practice Technologies‘s RealDealDocs makes it easy to find and...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 3 min read

Enter your email Address

Search

Categories

Archives

Strategic Legal Technology Blog

Archives

Categories

Contact Details:

Social links:

About Us

Blog Categories

Archives

Social Media