Driving Law Firm Technology Innovation with Outside Investors
I have posted previously about the UK Clementi reforms that allow outside investment in law firms. Fellow blogger Adam Smith, Esq. reports that several money sources have recently approached large UK firms. His recent post about potential investments in law firms, It’s Happening Sooner Than...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
A Model Law Firm for Knowledge Management
What does a law firm that takes KM seriously look like? Knowledge management consultant Gretta Rusanow of Curve Consulting answers this question in KM and the Law (KMWorld, 1/07). Rusanow describes the KM program at leading Australian law firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR). The firm...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Do Lawyers Collaborate as Much as Others?
Do lawyers collaborate the same way and as much as other professionals? In thinking about this question, first consider 3 recent articles Smashing The Clock, the Business Week Dec 11th cover story, explains how Best Buy is moving away from a culture of office “face...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Can Law Firms Learn from Other Markets?
Many businesses borrow best practices from other industries. Do law firms do so? Rarely in my experience, and that’s too bad. That point was hammered home reading A Hospital Races To Learn Lessons Of Ferrari Pit Stop (Wall Street Journal, 11/14/06, p. A1), which explains...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Offshore Document Review
Document review in e-discovery is costly. Contract lawyers are less expensive than associates. Going offshore can lower costs yet more. I await published case studies detailing offshore document reviews. In the mean time, several offshore companies or US companies with offshore operations now offer discovery...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
KM Going Up or Down?
Is knowledge management on the rise or fall? Not just skeptics ask; so do legal technology consultants and KM professionals. Some takes on answers…. It’s down. So I thought when I looked at the down-sloping line of the Google trends graph for “knowledge management,”....
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
2 min read
US Lawyers in India?
Business Week reports in Subcontinental Drift (1/16/06, $) that a growing number of Westerners go to India to work for outsourcing companies. Are lawyers next? The article notes that “firangis – or foreigners – have always been part of the Indian outsourcing scene. But until...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail
Many knowledge management professionals say that KM is 80% process and 20% technology. Perhaps true but if honored, requires often unrealistic cultural changes. A new article about work at Morrison & Foerster illustrates how applying modern software creatively can achieve important KM goals. IT @...
Ron Friedmann,
20 years ago
1 min read
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