Tracking Law Firm R&D Initiatives
My June 2015 blog post Law Firm R&D Initiatives Grow – Time for a League Table? recapped recent large law firm research and development announcements. It asked if the time had come for a Big Law R&D league table. That time has now arrived. Early last week I published a R&D in...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
1 min read
Driving Efficiencies in the Law Practice (Live Post)
This is a live post from the Bloomberg Big Law Summit. Please excuse any typos or errors in how I capture proceedings. Session Description 1:30 pm Panel Session: Driving Efficiencies in the Law Practice Advances in process management and technology – and a changing mindset around...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
3 min read
Law Firm R&D Initiatives Grow – Time for a League Table?
In the last 15 months, three large law firms announced legal tech R&D initiatives. Dentons issued a press release in May reporting that its new venture, NextLaw Labs, is “a global collaborative innovation platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes to transform the practice of...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
2 min read
Strategies for Change Management in Large Law Firms
Lawyers and law firms have a reputation for resisting new things. Yet both have changed quite a bit in recent decades. Understanding these changes, and how to encourage future ones, was the topic of a presentation – Strategies for Change Management – that my colleague Jim Tuvell and...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
4 min read
ILTA 2014 Law Firm Tech Survey – Highlights
The ILTA 2014 Law Firm Tech Survey was just released. The International Legal Technology Association each year conducts a comprehensive survey of law firm technology. At 301 pages, the report is packed with information. I summarize here findings on practice support and the business of law that I find...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
5 min read
Improving and Automating Law Firm Business Support Services
The recently released LexisNexis
Ron Friedmann,
13 years ago
1 min read
IT Spending Shifts to Marketing – Law Firm Implications?
Corporate information technology is shifting from chief information officers to chief marketing officers. Should large law firm CIOs pay attention to this trend? Gartner reports that by 2017, the CMO will control more tech spending than the CIO. In response, IBM “is making a point...
Ron Friedmann,
14 years ago
2 min read
What’s Keeping BigLaw CIOs Busy?
Last week I co-chaired the Hildebrandt West LegalEd Center CIO Forum in NYC. I report here a few observations from the conference. My highlights synthesize and interpret comments from multiple panelists and participants plus a pre-conference survey of priorities: Focus on Infrastructure. CIOs spend most...
Ron Friedmann,
14 years ago
2 min read
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