Category: Knowledge Management

Law firm knowledge management leader Freshfields is considering KM cutbacks and re-organization.  Freshfields profits drive targets Italian partners and City back-office (LegalWeek, 10/20/06) reports that the firm may reduce staff to enhance profits. Freshfields has “put forward proposals to review its London back office functions...

Another live report from the Ark KM conference in Chicago about an innovative approach to search and workproduct retrieval. Session title: Linking KM & DM Systems at Skadden Arps. Presenters: Charmaine Polvara, Knowledge Systems Manager and Rudy DeFelice, CEO of Practice Technologies.  Skadden did not...

I’m still at the Ark KM conference in Chicago. Ali Shahidi, the CTO of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is presenting a fascinating empircial comparison of three work product retrieval solutions. This is another “real time” post.  The firm has 3 KM products in production:...

This is a bit of an experiment. I’m at the Ark KM conference in Chicago now and am taking notes and will post in real time with little editing. The current session (10am Central) is The Expanding Surface of KM by Brent Kidwell of Jenner...

How can law firms understand and take advantage of knowledge management? What are typical KM challenges?  These are some of the questions I tackle in a recorded webcast, Knowledge Management: Asking the Right Questions, an interview with David Snow, editor of the technology section of...

Lawyers may have to toss a coin to choose caffeine versus constantly updated legal news. Now, it’s easier to have both.  New tools ease finding and digesting legal updates while sipping coffee. I recently spoke with Todd Berkowitz, an executive with Newsgator, an “enterprise RSS”...

What’s my knowledge management strategy? That’s a good question but a better one is “what’s best for the firm?”  KM is mainly about reducing lawyer effort. That’s a good goal. Better still is to improve profitability, focusing on projects, technologies, staff, or processes that can...

Ark Group will host its annual knowledge management conference in Chicago on October 10-11. I’m helping develop the program. We’re looking for a law firm willing to present a case study on new collaboration approaches, especially blogs or wikis.  A new generation of collaboration tools...