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Pillsbury Adds Outsourcing Consulting

A Law Firm Adds Another Shingle: Consultant in the New York Times (10/14/05) reports that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has expanded its legal outsourcing practice to provide outsourcing consulting. Query: have these consultants analyzed their own firm’s operations?  “Lawyers at Pillsbury, apparently trying to climb...
Knowledge Management

KM Morphing?

The Ark KM in the Legal Profession conference just wrapped up day 2 of 3. Leading knowledge management practitioners from the US, Canada, and England are participating. My take away is that KM may be morphing.  Jason Marty, Global Director, KM, Baker McKenzie and Julia...
Best Practices

Thoughts on Digital Collaboration

Collaboration is the mantra of our new economy. Yet in the legal market, computer-based collaboration is limited. Here are some possible reasons. . .  At a recent meeting of large law firm knowledge management professionals, Michael Mills, Director of Professional Services & Systems at Davis...
Outsourcing

WSJ Reports on Legal Offshoring

The Wall Street Journal reports on 9/28/05 on the trend toward sending aspects of legal work offshore.  The lead sentence of Legal Services Enter Outsourcing Domain (page B1) is “It happened with tech support, financial services and catalog order-taking. Now, a growing number of U.S....
Outsourcing

More Instances of Offshoring

The Washington Times reports on several instances of law firms and departments outsourcing work overseas.  Spotted on Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites is the Washington Times article Law firms send case work overseas to boost efficiency. It reports that Venable uses Indian companies to draft patents; “[m]ajor...