Category: Management and Technology

The title is not a typo. An Australian company is raising money in a public offering to buy law firms. Outside capital could drive innovative legal technology.  In the UK, the Clementi reforms allow non-lawyers to own law firms. I’ve followed this because with outside...

Law Firm, Inc. has published the 2006 AmLaw Tech Survey (11th Annual). What do we make of the findings?  “The technology chiefs of the Am Law 200 firms who responded report that they are tackling a bevy of new projects that update old concerns and...

At many law firms, it’s budget time of year. IT and KM managers need to make their best cases for proposed spending.  If your boss asks about ROI, consider showing this: “Superstar Economics” & Laterals: Take II by Adam Smith, Esq. It explains why hiring...

Not really. The title refers to the growth of BigLaw marketing relative to IT.  I was surprised to read Larry Bodine’s blog post More Marketers for Lawyers at Big Firms reporting that among the top 100 law firms, one marketing person serves 26 lawyers (a...

Leading large organizations is hard. Being a new leader in a partnership is especially hard. Law firm strategist and management consultant Patrick McKenna offers an excellent short guide for new managing partners at law firms.  McKenna’s First 100 Days is a step-by-step guide for new...

A recent Business Week article explores how the “rise of mobile workers has companies unloading space and rethinking what’s left.”  Square Feet. Oh, How Square! (7/3/06) opens with the fact that on any given day, 40% of employees are not in the office. They are...

In May, Hummingbird, one of two main document management vendors to large law firms, announced it was being acquired by Symphony Technology Group. That announcement may not, however, be the last word.  On July 5th, Opentext, an enterprise content management (ECM) systems company, announced “its...

Finding the right information and the right people can be hard. I recently came across a new web service that addresses one angle of “finding people.”  Lawrex is a lawyer referral service started in April. It “provides lawyers with an efficient and effective forum to...