Strategic Legal Technology Blog

Life Span of Chief Officers at Law Firms

What is the life span of a CxO at a law firm? Carolyn Elefant’s blog post title – Life for Law Firm Marketers: Brutish, and Ultimately Short – summarizes the lot of law firm marketers. She asks “Is the short life span of law firm...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Personal Productivity

Steve Jobs: Please, Back to the Design Workshop

I give Steve Jobs and Apple huge credit for great design and new business models. But not all is perfect in Mac land. Ok, I admit it, I use a PC with Windows. But I do use iTunes and QuickTime. Apple, along with countless other...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Roundup

Roundup: Lawyer Ratings, Outsourcing in Canada, and Legal Tech for Recruiting

In this Roundup: GCs develop lawyer ratings, Canadian firms slow to outsource, and using legal technology for recruting. Lawyer Ratings and Why They Matter I have previously suggested that lawyer ratings could drive lawyer efficiency. A good rating scheme should encourage efficiencies from legal technology,...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Management and Technology

Updated Directory of Large Law Firm Branded Blogs

Joy London (of excited utterances) and I track branded blogs of large law firms. We have updated the list we first published in March 2007. Our directory of large US firm blogs has grown: – 15 AmLaw 200 firms, up from 9, have firm-branded blogs...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Outsourcing

Legal Process Outsourcing Survey

Inside Counsel magazine recently asked its general counsel readers “Have you ever outsourced legal work to India?” The questions was asked on the magazine’s web site and the answers published in the November issue: – 26% “Yes” – 22% “May in the future” – 52%...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 2 min read

Management and Technology

Honestly Held Beliefs May be Wrong

This is the fifth in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is! Honestly Held Beliefs May be Wrong. Lawyers vociferously support their...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Contract vs. Offshore Lawyers (Part II)

Who would you rather have review litigation documents: contract (temp) lawyers or full-time lawyers in India? In Document Review in the US versus India (8/07) I suggested that Indian lawyers likely do better reviewing documents than US contract lawyers. For a well-written, colorful, amusing, and...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Best Practices

New Position Pioneers Law Firm Best Practices

It looks like one large law firm finally sees business benefit in developing best practices. Heller Ehrman announced in September that Suzanne Hawkins joined the firm as Chief of Practice Excellence. She “will be responsible for developing best practices to ensure that the highest quality...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

Personal Productivity

Personal Productivity – Backup with Mozy

Ocasionally I post about personal productivity tools. I used web-based back-up system Mozy for months and find it fantastic. Mozy is a web-based service, accompanied by desktop software, that back-ups selected directories on your hard drive. Up to two gigabytes of storage is free; unlimited...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Should Law Firms Do E-Discovery Inhouse?

Should law firms do e-discovery data collection and processing inhouse? Most large firms have – and should have – the capacity to process and collect some amount of data. The question is how much. As far as I know, only a handful of large firms...

Ron Friedmann, 18 years ago 1 min read

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