The Client View of Legal Outsourcing – Sun Microsystems Speaks
Today inhouse counsel at Sun Microsystems shared hands-on experience with legal outsourcing. This is the best legal process outsourcings (LPO) presentation I have seen to date by an actual customer. The Legal Process Outsourcing Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals today held its...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Will Law Firm Economic Hard Times Drive New Technology Adoption?
Several large law firms have laid off lawyers and staff. Less publicized are other cutbacks. I hear from friends in multiple BigLaw firms that they face pressure to reduce travel costs. If “necessity is the mother of invention” and there is a “silver lining in...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
American Lawyer’s Hatchet Job on Howrey
The American way is “innocent until proven guilty.” The American Lawyer way seems to be “guilty by association”. The July 2008 American Lawyer, in the “Bar Talk” section, has an article Irony, Thy Name is Guidance sub-titled “Howrey’s EDD provider has EDD problems of its...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Are Computers Moodier than People?
It’s surprising, but computers seem less predictable and more moody than people. Who would have thought that the seeming black and white of the binary world would lead to the moral equivalent of moodiness. And I don’t mean dystopian visions such as HAL in 2001....
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Online Legal Services Update: MoFo and Minters
In the late 1990s, large law firms started creating web-based interactive legal advisory systems. What happened to that trend? Market data on the number subscribers, and revenue is not available; as far as I know, the best listing of these types of systems is my...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Legal IT versus Corporate IT
How does managing legal technology compare to managing corporate technology? A panel discussion at the Strategic Technology Forum in Lisbon, hosted by LegalWeek in Lisbon last month addressed the question. The panelists were David Coates, IT Director of Bond Pearce and formerly of UBS; Jason...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
2 min read
Eversheds Report: Law Firm of the 21st Century
Law firm CIOs who think strategically need to understand the where the legal market and large law firms are heading. Large UK law firm Eversheds recently released its Law Firm of the 21st Century report. I found it provocative and had hoped to comment...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
Law Firm Marketing Opportunity: New Top Level Domains (TLD)
A pending change in Internet domain names creates new law firm branding opportunities. The New York Times reports in New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way (27 June 2008) that the authority regulating Internet domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned...
Ron Friedmann,
18 years ago
1 min read
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