Category: Roundup

I’ve been using Twitter (http://twitter.com/ronfriedmann) for a few months now. I post only items of professional interest. Here is a roundup of posts.  Rees Morrison blogs that the Gap outsources legal work to India, citing ACC Docket. His post at http://bit.ly/14Ra9 UK lawyers skeptical about...

In this Roundup: new alternatives to BigLaw, inhouse perspectives, social media challenges, LPO articles, and BigLaw blogging.  Managing Legal Costs: Focus on Process, Not Price Jordan Furlong, in Decoupling price from cost in legal services, provides examples of the growing alternatives to BigLaw. He also...

In this Roundup: KM and Linkedin, working effectively with law firm professionals, is blogging dead, and links to reports on Ark KM conference.  Knowledge Management and Linkedin Toby Brown, who heads Fulbright‘s knowledge management and blogs at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, reports on...

In this Roundup: GCs not impressed with law firm IT; web site that aggregates legal technology software reviews; the demise of “command and control” in KM; legal blogging weak in the UK; Pfizer capped legal fees get it only partly right.  Inhouse Law Department Views...

Roundup: touch typing, Pfizer EDD expert becomes consultant, MS SharePoint limitation, LPO makes Washington Post.  Personal Productivity: Touch Typing Rees Morrison observes that fast typing may be one of the biggest under-rated personal productivity skills (see Typing proficiency of in-house lawyers – one secret to...

In this Roundup, some well-known legal tech and legal management people are on the move; an analysis of why law firms are not good at team work; and a survey of software in use at top UK law firms.  People on the Move Rees Morrison,...

In this roundup: money as wiki motivator, Thomson into EDD biz, LexisNexis acquires another software company, and first Canadian-based legal outsourcer.  Wikis and Motivating Lawyers with Money Jordan Furlong has a great blog post, Money talks, about a law firm that used cash prizes to...

In this Roundup: the decline of law as a profession, small firm tries a new approach to legal secretaries, glimmers of hope for alternative fees, and Microsoft Vista woes.  The Demise of Lawyers? The Falling-Down Professions (New York Times, 6 Jan 08) reports on the...