The Rise of Legal Project Management
Legal project management (LPM) seems to be making major inroads into the profession. Back in April, the legal press carried two reports of interest. First, McCarthys’ project management plan in Financial Post (14 April 2010) reports that Canadian firm “McCarthy Tetrault is launching a technology...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
EDD Search Tools: My Conversation with Cataphora
One of the most interesting ongoing electronic discovery questions is the role and importance of search tools in document review. I recently spoke with Jonathan Nystrom and Dick Oehrle of Cataphora about this and related issues. Cataphora develops powerful language analysis software. Its pattern recognition...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
KM in Action (After Action Review at a Conference)
Last week I saw a great example of live knowledge management – an “after action review” at the Georgetown Law School conference, Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual?. Jeffrey W. Carr – Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary led it. Jeff...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Eversheds: “the revolution has now arrived”
Last week the Times Online published Eversheds report looks at how ‘perfect storm’ will affect the legal profession (18 Mar 2010), which provided an advance look at “Law firm of the 21st century – The clients: revolution – An Eversheds report on the post-recession legal...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Change and the Growing Importance of KM and other Productivity Tools (Live Post)
This is a live post from a private large law firm knowledge management meeting. This session, Change and the Growing Importance of KM, was also presented at the just completed CIO conference held in connection with Legal Tech. The Actors: Oz Benamram, White & Case...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
7 min read
Deciding How Much to Invest in Legal Work (or what is “good enough”)
Risk analysis with decision trees is a rigorous way to analyze disputes and decide how much to invest in the litigation. An important threshold question is when does it pay to do risk analysis, which is not that easy and can take a fair bit...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Xerox CategoriX and Musings on the Best Approach to EDD Search
This is a two-part, joint blog post. I recently spent some time looking at Xerox’s new CategoriX EDD tool and writing a post about it. After reading it, I realized it would be helpful to set my discussion in a broader context. So I turned...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
7 min read
Applying Interface Usability Principles to KM
From a private large law firm knowledge management gathering, here is a near real-time report on a relatively unusual KM topic, usability issues. A usability expert from one of the attending law firms presents. Her prior job titles include include Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, Information...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
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