Category: Knowledge Management

At Legal Tech a few weeks ago, I moderated a session on clients paying for KM (and posted about it here). Now, with the permission of panelists Christian Liipfert and Jeff Rovner, I am posting pre- and post- panel materials.  Christian Liipfert of BP America...

On Monday I moderated a session on clients paying for KM (see prior post). Turn out was excellent and the discussion lively.  Jeff Rovner (KM at Clifford Chance) and Christian Liipfert (senior lawyer, BP) were the panelists. We had a standing-room-only crowd with a mix...

I previously posted about an upcoming Legal Tech session that will examine whether clients should pay for aspects of KM. This topic led to an interesting e-mail exchange with Guy Borda, an Associate on the Defense Systems Team at Booz Allen Hamiltion who works on...

I have previously suggested the possibility that clients should pay for KM (here and here). I will moderate a discussion on this and related questions with two leading KM experts, one law firm and one law department, at Legal Tech in NYC later this month....

Large law firms are hiring general counsels. Will this have an impact on knowledge management?  Spurred by Insurers, General Counsel Posts Popping Up at Large Firms in Corporate Counsel magazine (December 2004) reports, citing an Altman Weil study, that “63 percent of the nation’s 200...

A group of large law firm knowledge management professionals recently compiled a list of KM resources.  This list was compiled in November 2004. It is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive. It lists both free and for-pay resources. Thanks to my professional colleagues who compiled this list....

Enterprise search – the ability to conduct full-text search across multiple information repositories – comes up at many of the knowledge management meetings I have attended over the last year. Anecdotally, it seems that many firms are evaluating Recommind. So it is interesting to see...

Many newspapers and magazines have reported on the new Google Desktop Search. What I find interesting, and somewhat disturbing, is Google’s positioning of this tool as a “photographic memory.”  Google now has a beta version of software that allows searching the contents of the local...