When Social Media Meld
The line between blogging and Tweeting just blurred a bit today. Today, document assembly company Exari wrote the blog post The insidious nature of the billable hour. It discusses why the billable hour is a barrier to building document assembly tools. Central to its point...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Choice of Concept Search Tool in e-Discovery May Matter Less Then You Think
Tom O’Connor and I recently wrote a joint blog post about concept search software for e-discovery. Subsequently, we received comments from Herb Roitblat of Orcatec, an expert in information management, data mining, statistics, and eDiscovery processes. I share his comments here. Tom posted at his...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
5 min read
Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) and Law Firm Business Intelligence
Just when law firms were beginning to master business intelligence (BI), the market goes and changes the rules. Growing volumes of alternative fee arrangements raise the question of what’s next with BI? In the old normal, law firms tracked a key few metrics: billable hours,...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
The E-Discovery Battle between Vendors and Firms Has Arrived?
Economic hardship has forced general counsels to cut costs. Most large law firms have, in turn, laid-off lawyers and staff and acquiesced to demands for alternative fee arrangements. Smart firms are also trying to differentiate themselves. For example, many now aim to become end-to-end e-discovery...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) are Not as Hard as You Think
Last week I spoke at the Ark Group Conference on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA). I gave a short presentation called Unbundling Repetitive Aspects of Large Matters, my effort at de-mystifying and simplifying alternative fees. Inside and outside counsel would find AFA easier if, instead of...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Roundup of Twitter Posts – October 2009
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. RT @tcorcoran: “Demystifying Outsourcing 4 Corporate Counsel” http://sn.im/twilists || Taxonomies anyone? Re-Tweets force me to come up with two-word editorial comments. Maybe Tweeting lawyers will learn to write clearly Desperate for...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
New UK Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Survey Suggests Market Growth
LegalWeek last week published a survey of UK partner views on LPO. Partners seek new models but wary of LPOs opens “City partners increasingly believe the law firm model will have to be overhauled but remain sceptical that legal process outsourcing (LPO) will be a...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Update
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) has been in the news a lot in the last few months. And there have been some good blog posts too. Here’s a listing. For a November 9th presentation on Legal Process Outsourcing: Opportunities and Challenges to the Palo Alto Area...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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