Stepping into the Breach
If a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, does it make noise? If a contract is breached but no one is there to notice, does the…
KM Haiku from Ark KM Conference
Day one of Knowledge Management for the Modern Law Firm conference was excellent. Reports and materials to follow but in the mean time, haiku. Joshua Fireman and I co-chair the…
Where Should In-House Counsel Sit?
Well-known management consultant Rees Morrison suggests that law departments Keep your lawyers on the same floor! Is that right? Morrison cites a Harvard Business Review article that finds “employees who…
Collaboration Re-Considered
Stretch your memory. Think back to the early days of e-mail. Did you resist? Fess up. Are we all at risk for resisting the next wave? Around 1995 I wrote…
KM at Morrison & Foerster
Morrison & Foerster is one of the leading US law firms for creating and developing an innovative and highly effective approach to knowledge management. Last month, Law Technology News published…
Taming Contract Beasts
Those who need to understand a dense contract should consider special software to create a hyperlinked version. I recently spoke with the founders of Affinitext, a service that converts mega-contracts…
Thoughts on Digital Collaboration
Collaboration is the mantra of our new economy. Yet in the legal market, computer-based collaboration is limited. Here are some possible reasons. . . At a recent meeting of large…
Technology to Control Litigation Costs
The August Corporate Legal Times reports on ways to reduce litigation costs. Technology plays a big role and one of my favorite approaches – decision trees – is featured. GCs…
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