ABA Ethics Opinion on Outsourcing
The ABA yesterday released Ethics Opinion 08-451 on legal outsourcing. It’s substantively important. And separately, it illustrates, in my opinion, systemic issues with how the ABA conducts important business. The ABA Ethics Committee Issues Opinion Detailing Lawyer Responsibilities When Outsourcing Legal Work Domestically or Internationally...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Lawyers Letting the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
Jordan Furlong, editor of the CBA The National and blogger, in his excellent blog post, The rise of good enough, points out that too many lawyers “value the exhaustive pursuit of perfection over the simple expedient of just getting it done” and examines the “perfection”...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Wall Street Journal Article on E-Discovery
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a long story on e-discovery. It highlights some of the current issues but also, in my opinion, oversimplifies them. Tech Firms Pitch Tools For Sifting Legal Records (22 August 2008) by Justin Scheck opens with a provocative statement:...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Tough Times in BigLaw: More Cutbacks, Bleak Outlook
I wish I had systematically tracked large law firm staff and lawyer reductions. Not to single out particular firms, but I just read a couple more reports of BigLaw cutbacks. Duane Morris Lays Off Additional Staff (Legal Week, 22 Aug 08) reports that many of...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Dorsey & Whitney Offers Fixed Price Document Review
AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney last week announced LegalMine, an integrated e-discovery service at a fixed price per document. LegalMine is “a powerful tool to review huge quantities of documents – efficiently, thoroughly and accurately.” According to the FAQ page of LegalMine: “Dorsey...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Knowledge Management at 2008 ILTA Annual Conference
The Knowledge Management Peer Group of ILTA is hosting several sessions at the International Legal Technology Association annual meeting next week. Listed below are the KM sessions. Monday, August 25, 2008: KM Peer Group Sessions and KM Luncheon KM1 – Starting a KM Program 10:30...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis Loses Share to Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw in Large Law Firms
The 2007 large law firm librarian survey is out. Some of the data surprise me. Competitive Advantage (big PDF) in Law Firm Inc. magazine (an American Lawyer, now Incisive Media, publication) includes results of a survey of AmLaw 200 law firm librarians conducted in the...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Litigators Get a Bad Report Card + Ways to Do Better
The The New York Times reported last week (8 Aug 2008) on a study analyzing the cost of not settling law suits. Defense lawyers make bad calls not to settle in almost 1 out of 4 cases. Can lawyers improve that record? Study Finds Settling...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Preservation versus Collection in E-Discovery
If corporations succeed in managing and preserving information, will e-discovery collection problems disappear? I’ve previously written about “e-discovery convergence,” the idea that enterprise “information life cycle” management products may reduce or eliminate the need for EDD collection. Is Preservation in E-Discovery Overrated? at the Clearwell...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
The Chase for Litigation Support and EDD Expertise
E-discovery is hot. As well it should be with the explosion in data volume and relatively swift (for the legal market) transition from paper to digital data. A just-released salary survey of law firm EDD and litigation support staff puts some parameters on the market...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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