The Crisis Goes to Waste as BigLaw Muddles Through
Law firm lay-offs continue aplenty. How should firm management decide about cutting staff? Staffing Cuts Multiply, but Are Associate Cuts a Better Solution? by Karen Sloan (The National Law Journal, 23 Jan 2009) recounts the many BigLaw staff reductions and suggests “firms should be cautious...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Autonomy to Acquire Interwoven
Autonomy announced on 21 January 2009 that it will acquire Interwoven. The Autonomy press release spells out the rationale for the acquisition: “The combination of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing technologies (IDOL) (with its ability to understand content) with Interwoven’s suite of products (focussed [sic] on...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
When Will Lawyers Apply Statistics to E-Discovery (EDD) and Document Review?
Money pours into e-discovery. Courts rule on it. Lawyers debate it. Seemingly missing though are statistics. Is e-discovery and document review today all that different from litigation support 20 years ago? Sure, technology has changed. The underlying process, however, has not. The biggest difference is...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Get a Bigger Monitor or Dual Monitors
Three years ago I blogged about the productivity benefits of dual monitors. Today, the New York Times published a long article extolling the virtues of bigger or dual monitors. Boss, I Need a Bigger Screen. For Work Efficiency, of Course by Farhood Manjoo (15 Dec...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Law Firm Staffing Reference Model
How should law firms support lawyers? Sounds simple but is it really? Firms can compare their staff ratios or cost as a percent of revenue using survey data. The averages, however, conceal huge variations. For example, I know that three large NYC law firms have...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
A Mark to Market Rule for Lawsuits?
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has proposed a new standard for public disclosure of pending lawsuits. This raises interesting legal technology and management questions for general counsels. Reporting Rights in the January 2009 issue of InsideCounsel reports on FASB Statements No. 5 and 141[R]....
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Legal Market Upheaval – A One-Act Play
Instead of a New Year prediction, here is a fictional account about how the legal market revolution began. [References to articles and blog posts appear below.] The Setting: CEO’s office in an innovative, multi-billion dollar company. It’s late December 2008, so relatively quiet. The CFO...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
6 min read
Initial Views of Twitter
By now I assume most readers have at least heard of Twitter, a microblogging service. (If not, you definitely need to read this post). Twitter allows anyone to create an account or home page – mine is http://twitter.com/ronfriedmann. You can then post, from a...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
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