Rethinking How Clients Buy Legal Services – PERSUIT Platform for RFPs
I recently learned about a new platform, PERSUIT, designed to rethink how clients buy outside counsel and other legal services. Jim Delkousis, a former DLA Piper partner and Founder & CEO of PERSUIT, and I initially spoke in July. I saw the platform and we...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
6 min read
Quoth the RAVN: How iManage’s RAVN Acquisition Will Affect the Legal Market
[My business partner Joshua Fireman of Fireman & Company co-authored this blog post. It was first published by the International Association of Legal Technology (ILTA) at the ILTA KM blog and the ILTA corporate blog, both on 25 May 2017.] The document management, search and...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
7 min read
Finding a Needle in a Haystack with 21st C. Expertise Systems
This is a live blog post from ILTACon, the 2016 conference of the International Legal Technology Association. This session is the Finding a Needle in a Haystack with 21st Century Expertise Systems with panelists with Kate Cain of Sidley Austin, Marybeth Corbett of WilmerHale, Julie Bozzell of Hogan Lovells, and Joshua...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
8 min read
Filling the Gaps that Legal Complexity Causes – An Example
A big challenge in law is that rules vary significantly across jurisdictions. All practices – litigation, transactions, regulatory, and counselling – face this problem. That means even highly experienced lawyers often need help outside their home jurisdiction. If countries, states, provinces, cities, agencies, and other law-makers were...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
4 min read
New Software to Manage Deals (DealStage)
I recently saw a demo of DealStage, software designed to help lawyers manage deals. The company bills its software as enabling “attorneys & transactional professionals to better manage the deal process lifecycle from drafting to closing.” Charlie Uniman, a lawyer with years of experience doing deals, is one...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
2 min read
Improving Contract Management and Analysis
For over two decades, eDiscovery and computer assisted review hogged the legal technology limelight. Now, tools to improve contract management and analysis finally have hit the market. I share here why two fairly new products – Seal Software and DiligenceEngine – are good news for transactional lawyers. This...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
4 min read
E-Discovery Concept Searching Clarified
What’s the best way to review documents in discovery? I’ve suggested that an army of US-based contract lawyers is not the answer, that using offshore lawyers or software is a better approach. Nicolas Economou, CEO of H5, offers useful insights in response to a prior...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
5 min read
The Impact of Changing Technology on New Discovery Rules
The new federal e-discovery rules take effect on December 1st. How will technology changes affect the application of these rules? A recent software demo caused me to ponder this question. The “reasonably accessible” standard of amended Rule 26(b)(2)(B) guides allocating the burden and cost of...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
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