Risk Aversion and the Failure to Consider Alternatives
Lawyers are risk-averse. They frequently fail, however, to consider the risk of alternatives. Cutting a Winning Edge in Law Firm Blogs, an article about large law firm blogs illustrates this…
Wipro and Infosys Offer Legal Process Outsourcing
The entry of established, adjacent players in an emerging market is a sign of good times. This is now happening with legal process outsourcing. I began writing about legal outsourcing…
Blaming IT
Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: “77% of legal professionals… cite a clack of sufficient information technology tools to cope with the…
New Collaborative Web Sites for Legal Market
Two relatively new web sites offer the legal market a way to market services, share documents, and build community. To some extent, each is trying to apply the Facebook or…
Microsoft OneNote Re-Visited – Still a Winner
Almost four years ago to the day, I started this “Personal Productivity” category. with a post extolling Microsoft OneNote. Four year later, I continue to depend on OneNote (now the…
Improving E-Discovery with Smart [Humans] [Technology]
Does finding the best way to search through huge volumes of e-data sometimes feel like the quest for the Holy Grail? I’ve previously written about applying smart search tools and…
Destination India: Not If, But How?
In my last post I wrote about large law firm Howrey opening its own document review facility in India. Is it a good idea for law firms to own and…
Howrey’s Hop from DC Suburbs to India
“It’s not outsourcing” says Robert Ruyak, Howrey managing partner, of the firm’s new office in Pune, India. So reports “Howrey Vindaloo” (American Laywer, Feb 2008). Howrey, which has long operated…
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