EDD Concept Searching
Will Uppington of Clearwell has a good post called Concept Search Versus Keyword Search in Electronic Discovery . It offers a helpful explanation and comparison of concept search versus categorization. He concludes that for concept searching “use to become widespread, it will need to become...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
E-Discovery – The First Full Page WSJ Ad?
One measure of market size is the advertising for it. In a possible first, the Wall Street Journal today has a full-page ad for an e-discovery product. Turn to B5 to see (at least in the editions delivered to DC and NYC areas) a full-page...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Working Virtually and Hard Economic Times
The legal market faces tough times but working virtually appears to thrive. Even Law Firms Feel Strain of Layoffs and Cutbacks (NY Times, 12 Nov 2008) opens “You know things are bad when even lawyers are getting laid off.” The The Layoff List at American...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Law Department Operations Survey Shows GC Apply Limited Cost Saving Tools
A survey of Law Department Operations (LDO) Directors sheds light on how general counsels are – or are not – controlling costs. “Law Department Operations Director” is a recent position. The First Law Department Operations Survey is published by Inside Counsel magazine and the Blickstein...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Specialized Legal Market Search Sites (Quest and Lexis Web)
You can now chose from at least two specialized legal market search engines. Quest from law.com has been around a while. I’ve been disappointed in my occasional use of it so, inspired by Bob Ambrogi’s article Tour the Legal Web’s New Sites, decided to look...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Little Things Matter for Personal Productivity
File names and document titles turn out to be a big deal. Without proper file names, it’s hard to find the right document. Where document management systems prevail, lawyers and staff often fail to provide meaningful titles. So much so that you have to...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Roundup: KM + Linkedin, Blogging Dead?, Ark KM Conf, Primer for New Lawyers
In this Roundup: KM and Linkedin, working effectively with law firm professionals, is blogging dead, and links to reports on Ark KM conference. Knowledge Management and Linkedin Toby Brown, who heads Fulbright‘s knowledge management and blogs at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, reports on...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
BigLaw: Get Ready to Hire Statisticians
How should lawyers deal with the ever growing volume of digital data in e-discovery? The answer likely involves far more extensive use of statistics. Do Your Searches Pass Judicial Scrutiny? by Wayne C. Matus and John E. Davis of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (New York...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Questioning Truisms (More on Evidence Based Law)
My previous post discussed best practices and applying data analysis to questions of law practice and practice management. Subsequently I read an article by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., former General Counsel of General Electric. In Big Isn’t Always Best in Corporate Counsel (Nov 2008) he...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Evidence Based Law
How much longer will lawyers resist the idea of best practices? Perhaps they can learn from baseball. I frequently write about “evidence based law“, an extension of the idea of “evidence based medicine.” Last week, Billy Beane (GM of Oakland A’s), Newt Gingrich And John...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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