Strategic Legal Technology Blog

A Good Discussion of Defensible E-Discovery

Over at the EDD Update blog, there is a very good discussion of defensible EDD / ESI search. It’s worth reading and prompts me to ask what we mean by reasonable. Eric Mandel of Zelle Hofmann posted Searching for the Definitive “Search” Tool on July...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Roundup

Roundup of Twitter Posts – July 2009

Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Lost more time, again, to fixing problems with Sprint Blackberry desktop sync to my BB 8830. It’s never ending. I’m not ready for iPhone. Large UK law firm...

Ron Friedmann, 17 years ago 2 min read

Best Practices

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, 17 years ago 2 min read

Best Practices

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

Outsourcing

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

Personal Productivity

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

Management and Technology

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

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

Knowledge Management

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

Outsourcing

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

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