Large Law Firm Blogs
How many large law firms have blogs? I would like to get a sense of how many AmLaw 200 firms have blogs and possibly create a list of those that do. I need your help. I have checked blawg.com, Internet Marketing Attorney (which reviews 250...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Adoption Rates for New Ways of Working
New technologies and processes abound in the legal market: e-discovery, portals, customer relationship management (CRM), knowledge management, practice group profitability analysis, matter-centricity, online training, to name a few. What can we learn from the past, both to predict the future and to guide how we...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Successful KM: Learning from Document Management
Large law firms have used document management systems for over a decade. What are the lessons for knowledge management? Originally, I and many others thought that DM would solve the work product retrieval problem. That turned out not to be true but we have learned...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
Law Firm Mergers and KM
The widely reported merger of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Hale & Dorr raises interesting questions about the role technology can play in helping to integrate two firms. To be sure, merging the tech infrastructure of two firms can be a major challenge. I will...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Strategy and Technology to Support Law Firm Growth
The Wall Street Journal published Kraft’s Stale Strategy last Thursday (12/18/03) describing how Kraft’s line-extension strategy has failed to develop revenue growth. Before I relate this to lessons for law firms, some backgound… Line or brand extension refers to taking an existing brand name and...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
3 min read
More Lessons from Medicine
Last Monday (November 10, 2003), the Wall Street Journal, in Heart Studies Cite Treatment Gaps, reported that “[l]ess than one-third of Americans hospitalized for heart failure are discharged with four standard therapies that could help keep them out of the hospital and prolong their lives.”...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
3 min read
More Lessons from Medicine, this Time for Inhouse Counsel
Regular readers of my blog have seen several posts that draw lessons for the legal market from developments in health care. I have previously suggested that lawyers adopt “best practices checklists” (as the ICU at Johns Hopkins has) and that they demonstrate that their tried...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Knowledge Management and Law Firm Compensation
Law firm knowledge management professionals frequently discuss the impact of partner compensation systems on the interest in and ability of a firm to invest in KM. The general consensus is that firms with “lock step” partner compensation are better able to support significant KM initiatives...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
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