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2008 AmLaw 100 Preview

Law firm CIOs and other managers who want the proverbial “seat at the table” need to follow law firm economics. For large law firms that means the AmLaw rankings. I could not attend the American Lawyer rankings preview webinar today but found an excellent summary...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Online Legal Services

Open Source Law Redux

Open source software has had a dramatic impact on how business and consumers use computers. Could the same be true for law? I blogged about the idea of open source law four years ago. Lawyers Open Their File Cabinets for a Web Resource (New York...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

Outsourcing

Wipro and Infosys Offer Legal Process Outsourcing

The entry of established, adjacent players in an emerging market is a sign of good times. This is now happening with legal process outsourcing. I began writing about legal outsourcing (onshore and offshore) five years ago. Since then, the LPO market has grown. There have...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Risk Analysis Article

I’ve long thought that litigators should more frequently use litigation risk analysis using formal decision trees. I am swimming against the tide. In Making the Case for Change (ABA Journal, April 2008), the sub-article Case Evaluation: Too much emphasis on a quantitative approach often misses...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

Innovation and Change Management

Enterprise Relationship Software is Now Safe for Law Firms to Buy

Wouldn’t it be great for business development if you could tap all the connections that your fellow lawyers and staff have? Well you can. Doing so has been easy for quite some time as I reported in Something for Nothing? Enterprise Relationship Discovery (30 May...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Innovation and Change Management

The Future of Law Practice: Change or More of the Same?

Two conferences in the last week examined the future of law practice. Change is forecast but I wonder. On Friday, I was a panelist at the NALP annual conference plenary session, The Future of Law Practice: Trends, Predictions, and Imperatives. Some panelists predicted big changes,...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Lawyers’ Duty to Learn E-Discovery Search Techniques

Finding and filtering relevant documents in e-discovery is a big challenge. What steps must a lawyer take? Just how far does a lawyer’s ethical obligation go? In Improving E-Discovery with Smart [Humans] [Technology] (16 March 2008) I suggested that lawyers must learn enough about e-discovery...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

Knowledge Management

ILTA Conducting a KM Survey

The International Legal Technology Association is conducting a knowledge management survey for an upcoming KM white paper. It is open to non-ILTA members. An e-mail from ILTA, which I have permission to share, states “In preparation for an article which will be published in a...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Roundup

Roundup (4/8/08): People on the Move; Law Firms are Team Challenged; Tech Survey of British Law Firms

In this Roundup, some well-known legal tech and legal management people are on the move; an analysis of why law firms are not good at team work; and a survey of software in use at top UK law firms. People on the Move Rees Morrison,...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

Outsourcing

Legal Outsourcing and a Look at an Earlier New Thing

Legal process outsourcing continues to make the news in mainstream media. This time its Time. And now it’s time to ask where we are in LPO adoption. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week have covered LPOs. Call My Lawyer … in...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

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