Category: Knowledge Management

A group of legal knowledge management professionals recently met by conference call to discuss the need for and interest in forming a national/international group focused specifically on legal KM.  We agreed that a national group would be useful. Those on the call, including participants from...

Two recent articles remind me why US law firms should focus their knowledge management efforts on automated approaches.  The September Harvard Business Review reports in Create Colleagues, Not Competitors on knowledge sharing in executive recruiting firms. Researchers found that e-mail traffic (and therefore presumably knowledge...

I frequently suggest that law firms make knowledge management client-facing. There is an easy but overlooked way to do so.  Secondment: “the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere.” Some law firms second lawyers to clients. Why not second a...

I recently visited DC-based 60-lawyer Spriggs & Hollingsworth, which built an innovative case management system that illustrates how knowledge management can be embedded into a process.   To to support the firm’s complex litigation practice, a substantial portion of which involves pharmaceutical product-liability claims and...

The Ark Group USA is organizing KM for the Legal Profession in October (at which I will co-conduct a workshop).  The conference takes place October 4-6, 2005 in Chicago. Complete information is here (PDF); sessions include: “Strategies and tactics for successfully implementing a KM initiative...

I recently suggested that Enterprise blogging and RSS (really simple syndication) could have interesting knowledge management implications. Here is some follow-up.  RSS Goes Corporate in Red Herring (July 18, 2005), spotted at LawLibTech) describes the market for and players in enterprise blogging. The article reports...

Is systematic records management (RM) – a pressing topic for law firms and corporations alike – good or bad for knowledge management (KM)?  Many RM policies call for both saving certain records and destroying others. Any business process designed to manage content, can in theory,...

Here is another post about blogs but this one is different. First, a question for readers and second, some thoughts about knowledge management implications.  Last week I met with librarians at a large law firm. They asked if I knew of any enterprise aggregator software....