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When the AmLaw 100 list came out last month, I wrote that CIOs who want a strategic role must understand law firm economics and where their firms sit in the pecking order.  On Friday, the American Lawyer, in the June 2008 issue, published its Am...

In this Roundup, cost savings from offshore document review, b-school training for lawyers, EDD convergence, and an example of open source law.  Offshore Document Review Tusker outsources to India; $25 an hour for an attorney (Austin Business Journal, 18 April 2008) reports on an offshore...

Goodbye Law Office Computing magazine.  I have subscribed to Law Office Computing magazine for some time. On Tuesday (8/15/06), I received a letter from Small Firm Business magazine, an ALM publication, stating that “Law Office Computing will no longer be published after the June/July issue.”...

I have been remiss in not reporting sooner recent legal technology articles on knowledge management, blogging, and business intelligence.   KM. Law firms reinvent KM in KMWorld provides an excellent account of KM at one-half dozen large law firms (as reported by, among other bloggers,...

Drum roll please…. ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) will soon release the AmLaw top law firm ratings for 2004. Read on for a preview.  Five Am Law 200 firms posted gross revenue in excess of $1 billion in 2004, the largest number ever. The preview...

I am often surprised that I have never found a web site with a comprehensive set of links to legal technology resources. I have taken a very small step in this direction.  Over the weekend, I updated my “Useful Links” page and organized into Publications,...

I have previously written about the relative scarcity of large law firms blog. This week, another large law firm has launched a blog.  The Antitrust Review Blog by Sheppard Mullin covers, as the name suggests, antitrust developments. The blog is attractively designed and the entries...

The legal market is consolidating yet again. Well-known consulting company Hildebrandt is now part of the Thomson organization.  According the Hildebrandt press release, “Combined, Hildebrandt International and Thomson bring unrivaled industry insight, client knowledge and consulting expertise, providing exceptional management, organizational and technology advice and...