Early Case Assessment – Masters Session + Comments
This morning at the The Masters Conference, one of the leading e-discovery conferences, taking place in Washington, DC, I sat in on the first half of Early Case Assessment: Looking to the Future – From Early Assessment to Early Awareness. Here are notes from the...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
4 min read
How Defensible is Your E-Discovery Process? [Masters Conference Session Report]
This is a near-real-time post from the The Masters Conference, one of the leading e-discovery conferences, taking place in Washington, DC. This session is How Defensible is Your E-Discovery Process? Panelists: Dean Gonsowski, Esq., Vice President of E-Discovery Services, Clearwell Systems John Loveland, Managing Director,...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
4 min read
Sizing the Alternate Fee Arrangement Market
The legal market is remarkable for its lack of solid market research. There is much discussion about alternate fee arrangements (AFA), for example, but little data about how extensive the market is. I’m going to take a flyer and estimate total AFA from one data...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice (ILTA 2009)
Real time blog post on ILTA 2009 session: Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice with Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? and “legal futurist”; Gerard Neidistch, Executive Director Business Integration and Technology of Mallesons; and by John Alber, Technology Partner of Bryan...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
9 min read
Fixed Fees At Last?
Lawyers have discussed alternative fee arrangements (AFA) since at least 1989, when I first became a law firm manager. The economic crisis adds fuel to the supposed AFA fire. Now, a new article by two prominent lawyers argues the merits of fixed fees, pointing out...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Reducing Legal Costs Beyond Tinkering with Price
We may or may not be in the midst of a legal market revolution. Many an article suggests that general counsels are slashing costs. At best, however, the data are still anecdotal. GCs are, at most, tinkering with pricing rather than removing costs. By “tinkering...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Comparing Tech Use in Legal and Non-Legal, Across Generations
I came across an interesting technology use survey sponsored by LexisNexis. It has a lot of data on tech usage and attitudes and compares legal and other professionals and three generation of users. It’s worth a look though it’s a bit overwhelming in scope and...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
E-Discovery Goal: Win or Avoid Disaster?
Have lawyers forgotten the goal of e-discovery? EDD articles and professionals seem exclusively focused on avoiding disaster. The real EDD goal is winning the case. In 1997, I characterized the goals of discovery as: [see note below for source] A. Achieve the best outcome for...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
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