National Legal KM Group
A group of legal knowledge management professionals recently met by conference call to discuss the need for and interest in forming a national/international group focused specifically on legal KM. We agreed that a national group would be useful. Those on the call, including participants from...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Is SAP Overkill?
I recently posted that SAP appears to be entering the legal market. John Alber, technology partner at Bryan Cave and author of the outstanding article Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers, thinks SAP or any other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for law firms is...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Innovative Law Departments
The September Corporate Legal Times features The CLT Ten: 10 innovative law department practices. One-half involve technology. Here is a brief overview of the five innovations that use technology: 1. Bidding Wars: GE’s uses online auctions (see my prior post). 2. Staying on Track: For...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
New Lawyer Rating Service
I previously suggested a Zagat-type service to rate lawyers. A new service may just do so. Lawdragon ranks lawyers via a searchable web database and print publication. The home page explains: “We’ve put to work our 100 years of experience reporting on lawyers to help...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
KM – Why Automated Approaches Are Easier
Two recent articles remind me why US law firms should focus their knowledge management efforts on automated approaches. The September Harvard Business Review reports in Create Colleagues, Not Competitors on knowledge sharing in executive recruiting firms. Researchers found that e-mail traffic (and therefore presumably knowledge...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
The Cisco Way
A new article reports on the importance of technology to the Cisco law department and its outside counsel. The Cisco Way in the September ABA Journal reports how the Cisco law department uses “the Internet and technology to improve its in-house legal practice—and any law...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
GE – Online Auction and Best Practices
I have written before about GE using auctions to buy legal services. Corporate Legal Times reports GE recently used an online auction to choose its final firms. Bidding Wars (Sept 2005) reports that GE used 500 firms last year. After a cut based on quality,...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
SAP’s Shot Across the Bow
SAP, the enterprise software company, has an unusual ad in the current American Lawyer magazine – a shot across the bow for law firm financial software vendors in my opinion The ad is an 8-page essay themed with a Hegelian synthesis of law practice and...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
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