Category: Knowledge Management

Full text retrieval and semantic analysis software are useful software applications in the legal market. Software developers are making available increasingly sophisticated techniques to work with in very large document collections to identify potentially relevant ones and classify or otherwise automatically analyze them. These tools...

Cindy Thurston, Director of Knowledge Development, at Shaw Pittman LLP, alerted me to an interesting column by Tom Davenport, A Measurable Proposal in the June issue of CIO magazine. In the column, Prof. Davenport explores the idea that one can apply process improvement methods to...

Earlier this week I read an interesting article in the McKinsey Quarterly called Knowledge management comes to philanthropy that appears in 2003 Number 2 (for the full-text, you will need to register). I was planning to post a summary when I received a very nice...

Legal Technology Insider alerted me to a survey of Australian law firms sponsored by PA Consulting Group and CCH. The survey results are based on responses of one-third of the managing partners or CEOs of Australia’s largest firms. The survey also offers comparisons to a...

The June 2003 issue of Corporate Legal Times, in an article titled Legal Departments Struggle to Harvest Internal Knowledge (p. 12), reports on a knowledge management study conducted by the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida School of Law. Only 48% of 130...