Does the Legal Market Suffer the Same Over-Consumption as Health Care?
I have previously compared the health and legal professions, focusing on the evidenced-based approach in medicine and the appalling lack of anything like it in legal. Informed by the current national health care debate, I see another lesson for lawyers and law firm managers: find...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
2009 Futures Confence
The College of Law Practice Management is hosting a great “Futures” conference in September. I am a Trustee of COLPM. For the first time, the College is opening its program to the public. Two topics are on tap: (1) the future of law firms and...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Divining Meaning and Intent in the Modern Era
Dan Regard’s post The Fragmentation of the Communication Container at EDD Update blog raises important practical EDD considerations. Plus it suggests what metaphysical question about meaning. Dan writes that “methods of communication have changed over the last few years”. At one time he expected that...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Does Legal Media Shift on Outsourcing Portend Bigger Change?
I read with interest the National Law Journal article Will Increased Compliance Burdens Lead to Legal Process Outsourcing? (12 August 2009) about using legal outsourcing to help meet new compliance requirements. In my June post Legal Outsourcing Tipping Point? I suggested that the publicity surrounding...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
A BigLaw Watershed: O’Melveny Partners with H5 for EDD
Last week top law firm O’Melveny and information retrieval firm H5 announced an alliance to provide clients with innovative search methods for electronic document discovery (EDD). This is a legal market watershed in my view. I was fortunate to interview Richard Goetz, Chair of O’Melveny’s...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
5 min read
InnovAction Awards for 2009 Announced
The three InnovAction Awards for 2009 have been announced. InnovAction is a program of the College of Law Practice of Management. I am a trustee of COLPM and a Friend of InnovAction but had no role in or access to the judging process. COLPM and...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
As World Embraces Statistics, Lawyers Sit on Sideline
The world is rushing to embrace statistics. Not so lawyers. For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (New York Times, 6 August 2009) explains the rise of statisticians. “In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore —...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Technology Productivity Blackholes
I recently wrote about my My Current Personal Productivity Favorites. Now I turn to my technology productivity blackholes. For 18 months I felt like Comcast was my best friend based on how often I talked with them. Long story short: I suffered intermittent connectivity lapses...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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