Former GC Explains Why BigLaw May Lose Business
My prior post A Former GC Explains Why BigLaw Keeps Getting Business prompted a comment from Pam Woldow of Altman Weil, herself a former GC. She reports that law departments are, under pressure from the current crisis, shifting some work away from BigLaw. As I...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
A Former GC Explains Why BigLaw Keeps Getting Business
A former general counsel of a $100mil company wrote to me privately recently commenting on my blog post The Remarkable Inaction of General Counsels in the Face of Crisis and Budget Crunches. She offers an interesting perspective that I share here, with permission. Sheryl Katz...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Prospects in a Tough Economy
Earlier this month I wrote a post Taking the LPO Temperature: Warm, Getting Hot, But Doubts. A new article in Corporate Counsel about legal process outsourcing deserves its own discussion. Will Tough Economy Push Companies to Outsource Legal Work? (Corporate Counsel, 22 Dec 2008) by...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Lessons BigLaw Can Learn from Consumer Marketing and Legal OnRamp’s Success
In the Web 2.0 world, companies interact and learn from their customers via the web. What lesson can we draw for the legal market? The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World in the Wall Street Journal Business Insight / Journal Report today explains...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Back to the Future in E-discovery: “We’re All in the Keyword Business”
Keyword searching is the e-discovery buzz. It may surprise many legal market professionals that search and keywords is really an old issue. Ari Kaplan, in We’re All in the Keyword Business (law.com, 15 Dec 2008), reports on a recent EDD conference. He writes: “the recurring...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
The Remarkable Inaction of General Counsels in the Face of Crisis and Budget Crunches
We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Depression. Corporations are slashing budgets. General counsel are under pressure. What are they doing? More of the same. Law Department Budget Cuts Could Lead to Change in Outside Firms (The Legal Intelligencer, 12 Dec 2008) reports...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Taking the LPO Temperature: Warm, Getting Hot, But Doubts
What’s the current state of legal outsourcing? Depends on what factors you give the most weight to. Four items came together this week to provide excellent perspective on legal process outsourcing (LPO). US Legal Outsourcing $2 billion by 2013. Over at Integreon.com (my employer),...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
4 min read
KM Leader Oz Benamram Moves to White & Case
One of the leading KM professionals in the legal market has changed firms. Effective December 1, 2008, Oz Benamram is the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) at White & Case, responsible for developing and implementing the systems and processes to capture and share the firm’s collective...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
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