Ron Friedmann regularly publishes articles on a range of legal technology and law practice management topics. Ron is also interviewed by others. This a list of published articles and interviews in reverse chronological order. See also Ron’s conference presentations and click here for a listing by topic. [If an article does not have a link, there is no web-version available.]
- Doing Deals Better with Diagrams
(Legal Business World, #20, 2020, issued 29 May 2020) - Will the COVID Crisis Change How Lawyers Collaborate?
(Legal IT Insider, 14 Apr 2020) - Rewire Law: An Impressionistic View of the Future of Legal AI
(AI in Practice by PinHawk Online, 1 March 2020) - Hip Legal Tech in Brooklyn at Legal Geek
(Legal IT Insider (aka Orange Rag), 02 Jul 2019) - Cutting through the **I.T. – Decoding the legal tech market
(White Paper for LOD, Lawyers on Demand, November 2018) - How Progressive Law Firms are Using Document Automation to Speed-up Emerging Company Transactions
(White Paper for Leaflet Corporation, September 2018) - Law Firm Innovation Takes More than Talk
(LegalTech News / Law.com, 07 Sep 2018) - How Firms are Redefining DMS Ownership to Drive Adoption
(co-authored with Tom Baldwin, ILTA KM, 20 April 2018) - Knowledge Management Overview 2018
(Chapter in February 2018 Leaders in Legal Business (Stephen McGarry), essays by legal market thought leaders, published by AILFN (Association of International Law Firm Networks). As-published version.) - Is Legal Innovation Like Beauty – Only Skin Deep? (pdf)
(Legal IT Insider, Nov/Dec 2017, page 9) - The Last Mile of Contracts: Why Human Teams Are Still Essential
(LLRX.com, 9 July 2017. Originally published by CenzaSource) - A New Era for Managing and Finding Experience in Large Law Firms
(ILTA KM Blog, 9 June 2017) - Quoth the RAVN: How iManage’s RAVN Acquisition Will Affect the Legal Market
(co-authored with Joshua Fireman, ILTA KM Blog, 25 May 2017) - #LegalTechLives with Ron Friedmann, Consultant at Fireman & Company + Principal of Prism Law
On elevator pitch, blogging, and legal tech
(Kathleen Killin interviews Ron for ROSS Intel blog, March 14, 2017) - The Year in Focus – 2017
(Legal IT Insider, January 2017, PDF page 16) - What Will be Hot in 2017 (PDF download of entire issue)
(Legal IT Today #16, December 2016: my published answers to three questions.) - Will Blockchain Affect Your Practice or Firm?
(Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, 17 August 2016) - The coming changes in how lawyers practice (link to PDF download)
(Legal IT Today #14, June 2016) - Disruption? More Like Incremental Change for Big Law
(Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, 17 June 2016) - alt.legal: The Biglaw ‘Caste System’ — An Impediment To Innovation? [interview]
(Joe Borstein interviews Ron Friedmann for Above the Law, 9 March 2016) - The Rise of Legal Knowledge Management
(Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, 19 Feb 2016) - Is Big Law Having Its Kodak Moment?
(Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, 26 Jan 2016) - Automating Legal Advice: AI and Expert Systems
(Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, 22 Jan 2016) - A Brief History of Legal Knowledge Management
(2015 ebook, Leaders in Legal Business, by Stephen McGarry, 2015) - Innovation, Project Management, and KM in the Newly Competitive Legal Market
(General Counsel Research Club, October 2013) - Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) – Now Just Part of the Legal Landscape
(An edited version of this article was published as “Client market power means continuing cost-cutting” in the Legal Efficiency supplement to the The Times of London (11 June 2013), available on the web via Raconteur, publisher of the supplement) - Will Data Analytics Allow Us to “Do Less Law”?
(Published in Legal IT Insider, April 2013) - Why Haven’t Client Facing Systems Blossomed?
(Published in Legal IT Today, March 2013) - The Impact of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) You Might Not Have Noticed
(Published in Law Practice Today, The Monthly Webzine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, January 2012) - The New World of E-Discovery (Published by Inside Legal Thought Leaders Digest (TM) (PDF here), College of Law Practice Management Issue, released in connection with COLPM’s Futures Conference, Oct 2011).
- Legal Outsourcing – A changing conversation
(Contributor to a column by Mark Ross of Integreon on market acceptance and changing models of legal process outsourcing, published by Outsource Magazine (UK), 17 Nov 2010) - Law Libraries Transformed
(Co-authored with Eleanor Windsor; published by LLRX.com, 4 July 2010) - The right staff: key choices for legal process outsourcing
(Co-authored with Mark Ross, published by LegalWeek.com, 1 May 2010) - Law Firms Now Outsourcers?
(Published by LLRX.com, 20 February 2010) - An interview with Ron Friedmann of Integreon; the legal paradigm shift, predictive coding, document categorization, and more
(Published by the Posse List, 29 January 2010) - Outsourcing as a Strategy to Manage Support Cost and Variable Demand
(Chapter in Successful Legal Outsourcing by Michael Bell, published by Ark, fall 2009) - Baking KM into Everyday Workflow: An Analysis of Knowledge Management Survey Data
(Author of International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) hosted KM Survey, 30 June 2009) - Onsite Staffing and Optimizing Virtual Collaboration
(Contributions to the multi-author feature, Signs of Innovative Life in the Practice, Law Practice Management, April/May 2009) - Why and What Lawyers Should Consider Outsourcing
(LLRX.com, 1 September 2008) - Dealing with Documents: Outsourcing document processing can slash payroll and facilities costs, reduce turnaround time, and boost in-house secretarial careers
(Legal Management magazine by ALA, September/October 2008, co-authored with Renay Rutter) - Maxims for Managing Legal Technology
(Law Practice Today [an ABA online magazine], June 2008 and also published as The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Law Firm CIOs by TechnoLaywer, 9 September 2008) - Taming the Document Review Beast
(An interview of Diane Barrasso of Barrasso Consulting by Ron Friedmann, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Magazine, September 2007) - 4 Ways an eDiscovery Attorney Can Make Your Firm More Successful
(A white paper for Renew Data, May 2007; published as “Navigating eDiscovery”, Lawyers Weekly (Australia), 30 Nov 2007) - KM Best Practices
(“Knowledge Management Best Practices” in LLRX.com, May 2007) - Keep EDD Vendors From Crashing and Burning
(Letter to the Editor, Law TechnologyNews, January, 2007) - Top 10 Reasons Law Firms Resist Innovation
(Law Practice magazine (an ABA publication),December, 2006) - Development s in Legal Outsourcing and Offshoring
(Co-authored with Joy London and published in llrx.com on November 12, 2006) - KM – The Right Question?
(published as Pragmatic Approaches to Knowledge Management by llrx.com on August 17, 2006; based on a presentation at the May 2006) Interwoven Legal IT Leadership Summit.) - Innovation Case Studies
(“Bryan Cave: Intelligent Business” (p. 56) and “Morrison & Foerster: Innovative Answers” (p. 61), with Oz Benamram) ( InnovAction online publication [PDF], Summer 2006, published by the
College of Law Practice Management) - Going Beyond E-mail Queries
(a case study of RealPractice at Littler Mendelson; ILTA Whitepaper, June 2006) - Powering a KM Windmill (“Baking KM into the System”)
( ILTA Whitepaper, June 2006, co-authored with Chris Boyd of Wilson Sonsini) - Inside vs. Outside: When Does it Make Sense for Law Firms to Outsource?
( Law Practice Today, an ABA Webzine, April 2006; roundtable discussion with other commentators) - Do Blawgs Burn as Brightly as Surveys Suggest?
(Law.com, January 2006) - Lawyers as Shoppers – It’s All About Finding Information
(co-authored with Oz Benamram of Morrison & Foerster, Law Technology News, December 2005, Published as “IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail”) - Technology Developments that Will Change Your Practice
(College of Law Practice Management News, Spring 2005) - Looking to the Future: What Changes Do You See Coming in the Next Twenty Years
(Law Practice Today, an ABA Webzine, December 2004; roundtable discussion with other commentators) - Back to the Future – A Brief History of Legal Tech
(American Lawyer Magazine, AmLaw Tech Supplement, December 2004) - Matter Centric Working: Letting Lawyers Work the Way They Want to Work
(KMWorld Magazine, July/August 2004; with Andrew Pery) - Successful KM: Learning from Document Management
(Law Practice Today, June 2004; with Dennis M. Kennedy) - What’s Your Strategy for Collecting and Cataloging Documents?
(Capital Connection, February 2004) - Browser-Based Advice Systems
(Law Practice magazine, January-February 2004) - The Future Law Office: Going Virtual
(Law Practice magazine, January-February 2004; a condensed version appeared in the “The Best Articles Published by the ABA” issue of GPSolo, September 2004) - A Marketplace Trial
(The Future of Litigation, supplement to the American Lawyer, Fall 2003) - The Future of Legal Secretaries — Working Groups?
(Legal Times, May 12, 2003) - Federalism & Foundations
(AmLaw Tech, March 2003) - Do You Know What You Know – Blueprint for the Firm’s CKO
(AmLaw Tech, September 2001) - Should You Use the Web to Deliver Legal Guidance to Your Clients?
(Litigation Management & Economics Subcommittee Newsletter of the ABA Section on Litigation, Summer 2001; conference materials for International Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Practical Legal Knowledge Systems Workshop, March 2002) - Using Technology to Manage Documents [in Litigation]
(Practising Law Institute, 1997) - Colleagues’ Exchange
(Corporate Legal Times, March 1992; with David R. Johnson and David Post) - Software Makes Decision Analysis Easy
(Legal Technology Newsletter, December 1990; with David Post) - Spinning a Web of E-mail Connections
(American Lawyer Management) - Controlling Litigation Costs with Technology
(American Lawyer) - Management Must Become Familiar with Technology
(NY Law Journal) - Litigation Support — Technology is Not Enough
(ABA TechShow book) - Developing a New Paradigm for Managing Facts
(American Lawyer) - Practicing Law with Pictures
(Law Technology Product News)