Wall Street Traders Trust Computers, Why Don’t Lawyers?
A hot legal topic is predictive coding in e-discovery. In the automated approach to reviewing discovery documents for responsiveness, computers do much of the work instead of armies of humans reviewing each document. Those who doubt the reliability – and I would argue inevitability –...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Can Lawyers Learn to Love Numbers?
A front-page article in the Friday New York Times raises the issue of the divide between science and humanities. Lurking here a lesson for lawyers. In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture describes Google’s recently released Books Ngram Viewer, which analyzes how often phrases...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Surprises in the 2010 AmLaw Tech Survey
The latest American Lawyer Technology Survey is out. Cloudy Forecast in the Am Law Tech Survey 2010 finds that BigLaw IT budgets are still tight. My take is that there is not much new or exciting in legal tech in large law firms. Reviewing the...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
2 min read
Can Law Factory and Bet the Farm Co-Exist Under One Roof?
Can a “law factory” and “bet the farm” approach to law practice co-exist under one roof? As law firms adapt to falling demand and price pressure, that question is increasingly important. A recent survey provides some data that co-existence may be hard. For background...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
Law Factory versus Bet the Farm Firm – learning from business
At the 2010 International Legal Technology Conference session “A New View of the Automated Law Firm”, my co-panelists and I discussed how changing market dynamics and technology might force firms to become either a “Law Factory” or a “Bet the Farm” firm. With this post,...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
The Inside Counsel Law Department Innovation Winners
The September issue of Inside Counsel presents its annual “IC 10”, 2010 IC 10 Winners Exemplify Innovation, winners for law department innovation. In this post, I summarize and comment on some of the winners. Sharing Information Internally and Externally with Legal OnRamp Two winners this...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
AmLaw 2010 Law Librarian Survey – Interesting but Not Surprising
American Lawyer magazine has just released its 2010 large law firm library survey. The results are interesting but not surprising. Law Librarian Survey 2010: More Bang, Less Bucks writes-up the results and has links to survey data (free registration required). Almost one-half of the 86...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Managing Large Law Firm Staff in the New Normal
Large law firms will almost certainly not return pre-2008-crash economics. BigLaw will remain immensely profitable but firms will need to manage themselves more effectively. And this includes how they staff to support lawyers. The most recent evidence of the ‘new normal’ is the Altman Weil...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
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