Conferences to Consider for October: COLPM Futures and Ark KM
Each October for several years I have attended two excellent conferences. Ark KM is the leading, privately organized conference for law firm knowledge management professionals. The College of Law Practice Management Futures Conference is the leading conference for considering the future of the legal market...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
Legal KM Rapid Tour: The ILTA 2014 Encore Webinar
These are my real time notes from an ILTA webinar on 26 September 2014 that recaps – in one hour – the six hour-long knowledge management session at the 2014 annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, held in August in Nashville. This is...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
9 min read
A Brief History of Legal KM
I am writing a book chapter on knowledge management and preparing for my 10th Annual Ark KM conference panel on ’10 Years Gone: From Content to Tools to Productivity’. To prepare for both, I wrote a brief history of legal KM in tabular format, below. Beyond wanting to...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
Meet Your New Lawyer, IBM Watson
Will IBM Watson be your new lawyer? Perhaps someday. For now, I tackle an easier question: what role can Watson play in Big Law? I speculate here so welcome comments and corrections. Last week at the International Legal Technology Association annual conference an IBM Watson senior manager presented to an invitation-only meeting of Global...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
ILTA Talk Preview: Legal Inflection Point: Innovate Now
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference begins this weekend in Nashville. Here is a brief preview of the panel on which I am speaking on Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014, at 130pm CDT. The panel is Legal Industry Inflection Point: The Time for Innovation Is...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
Big Law Changing or Being Disrupted?
The legal market has seen a running debate since the economic crash: is Big Law being disrupted? My short answer is no, it’s only changing. It’s not the three conferences in February alone on this question that prompt me to write today. Rather, it’s the appearance...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
3 min read
What is the Impact of a Low Cost Center When Law Firms Merge?
Earlier this week Kevin Colangelo of Elevate Services wrote a nice blog post, The Business of Law: Addressing Law Firms’ Concerns Over “Control” in Managed Services Relationships. He explains the benefits of outsourcing middle office support over building a captive and addresses lawyers’ concerns with control. News...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
2 min read
Will Low Cost Centers become a Big Law Norm?
Another large law firm announced today the opening of a low-cost service center. Torys is opening in Halifax. The Globe & Mail in Bay Street law firm launches legal ‘incubator’ in Halifax reports that the “office will be charged with developing new, more efficient ways of doing this kind...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
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