Category: Knowledge Management

From a private large law firm knowledge management gathering, here is a near real-time report on knowledge management (KM) and Return on Investment (ROI) by Joshua Fireman of ii3.  Here are some of the highlights I find most interesting: Given that law firms can barely...

The American Lawyer, in Law Librarians: ‘No More Sacred Cows’ (3 Sep 2009), reports on its annual survey of AmLaw 200 law libraries. The results, while not pretty, are perhaps not so surprising given wide-spread BigLaw lay-offs..  Here are the findings I found most interesting:...

How is KM doing in the economic crisis? Are law firms taking advantage of other law firm departments to support KM (“baking KM into processes”)? I am the author of a just-released ILTA survey that answers these and other questions.  In June 2006, Chris Boyd,...

ILTA’s knowledge management peer group hosts a webinar on June 8th called “Where Is KM Now and Where Is It Going?”  The topic will cover the current state of KM and its possible future direction in the context of the global economic crisis. This is...

The ILTA Knowledge Management peer group, in prep for a KM white paper, is gathering data to help assess the state of legal KM. Legal KM professionals, please consider participating.  Respond to the ILTA KM survey here. It’s a brief questionnaire. Bonus incentive just for...

My post last month Measuring the Consistency of Legal Documents reported on pioneering legal document analysis by Kingsley Martin led to an interesting follow-up dialogue about standardizing transactional documents.  Doug Cornelius (Compliance Building blog and DougCornelius.com) posted a public comment on that post. It led...

Transactional lawyers spend huge amounts of time drafting and negotiating documents. Yet few have the tools to assess how their documents compare to similar ones drafted by other lawyers. That is changing.  My former consulting client, Practice Technologies‘s RealDealDocs makes it easy to find and...

Is There a KM Role for Administrative Staff? That was the topic of a session I moderated today at a meeting of large law firm KM professionals.  Staff roles in KM vary widely. At one firm, secretaries reguarly contribute to KM in both litigation and...