Reading the AmLaw Tech 2007 Survey
The 2007 AmLaw Tech Survey is out. What does it tell us? Digital Dialogue (Law Firm Inc., 9/07) includes an article about the Am Law Tech 2007 Survey and related tables and articles. Last year in a a post about the AmLaw Tech 2006 Survey...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
3 min read
Law Firms Going Global
In the last decade, many US and UK law firms have adopted an “operate globally” strategy, buying or building practices around the world. The rationale is to be where their global clients are. I think that in the future, successful global firms will need to...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Changing Role of Practice Support Lawyers
Knowledge management in North America has long had a different flavor than KM in the United Kingdom. At the risk of oversimplifying, UK firms have focused on a relatively labor- and human-intensive KM, relying heavily on practice support lawyers (PSL). In contrast, the US firms...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Enterprise Search for Large Law Firms
Enterprise search is a hot topic for large law firms. I recently cited John Alber’s excellent article on enterprise search. Another leading thinker about search is Oz Benamram, the mover behind Morrison & Foerster’s AnswerBase (AnswerBase article; AnswerBase demo). In a message circulated to an...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
The Future of Law Practice Management
The College of Law Practice Management annual meeting took place on Saturday, September 8th. We spent the morning examining the future of law practice management. Our wide ranging discussion is hard to summarize in a few words. For each of the several broad topics we...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Roundup (9/6/07): Enterprise Search, Law Departments Managing Firms, Web Collaboration
In this Roundup, a report on an excellent article by John Alber on Enterprise Search, a blog post by Sun GC Mike Dillon on managing outside counsel, and a McKinsey report on web collaboration. Search as a Law Firm Enterprise Foundation John Alber has an...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Innovative Law Departments – 2007
InsideCounsel magazine (9/07) reports on its annual 10 most innovative law departments. Once again, technology played a big or supporting role at several winners. Highlights from 2007’s Most Innovative Legal Departments (PDF) include: To address a shortage of IP lawyers, IBM‘s law department turned...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
New IT Strategy Decisions for BigLaw
Attending the annual ILTA conference last week was the proverbial “drinking from a fire hose.” I’m left mulling strategic information technology decisions for large law firms, specifically the fate of document management and federated search. My entirely unscientific “buzzometer” noticed Interwoven’s announced integration with federated...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Roundup (8/26/07): Bloomberg on Legal Outsourcing, Law Librarian Survey, Making the Law Free
In this Roundup: a good Bloomberg article on legal outsourcing, ALM’s law librarian survey and related articles, “Making the Law Free,” and “good enough” technology. Outsourcing Bloomberg.com has a very good article by Cynthia Cotts and Liane Kufchock on legal outsourcing: Jones Day, Kirkland Send...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Knowledge Management and Social Tagging and Bookmarking
Lawyers seldom actively contribute know-how to knowledge management systems so KM professionals increasingly turn to alternatives. One interesting approach relies on user self-interest to create KM value by inference. Almost everyone knows what it means to bookmark a web page. Originally, bookmarks were private, for...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
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