Knowledge Management Priorities in Large Law Firms – 2017 Survey
I report here on a recent, privately conducted knowledge management survey of large law firms. Mary Abraham, Oz Benamram and I conduct this survey in preparation for a meeting of KM professionals in February. Learning about current KM priorities and interests inform our agenda. We...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
7 min read
How AdvanceLaw Improves the Corporate Legal Market
The legal market has much room for improvement – we likely all agree on that. But we don’t all agree on exactly how the legal market should be improved. I have therefore long been intrigued by AdvanceLaw, a group of over 150 corporate general counsel with...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
12 min read
Will All Lawyers Work for the Big 4 by 2026?
In September, as a panelist at the College of Law Practice Management 2016 Futures Conference (PDF of agenda), I addressed the question “Will All Lawyers Work for the Big 4 by 2026?”. (The conference used the term mega accountants but it’s hard to imagine in 10 years that term...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
4 min read
How Law Firms Should Prepare for the Future of Legal Services (HighQ SmartLaw Book Contribution)
HighQ, a UK-based software company serving the legal market, recently initiated a conversation about SmarltLaw. It started with a website earlier this year. This month, the company released a short e-book that asked 15 experts to answer the question “What do you believe lawyers and law firms need to do to...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
3 min read
The Coming Changes in How Lawyers Practice
In this century we have seen dramatic changes in the legal market. From a period of plenty, we moved to one of seeming scarcity. Many commentators suggest that the legal market has been, is being, or will be disrupted. I have a different point of...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
6 min read
What’s Easier to Learn? Law or Statistics?
“Much of the ‘knowledge’ of lawyers can be acquired and accessed by many other means. The only thing over which a law firm has an entrenched monopoly are those aspects of risk and ‘assurances’ to the client that there are disciplinary consequences for a firm...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
2 min read
Who’s Managing Big Law Alternative Staffing?
Altman Weil’s recently released 2016 Law Firms in Transition survey is good reading for all law firm management. For me, the questions it raises are the number of non-partner track lawyers and who’s managing Big Law alternative staffing? The survey found that a “majority of firms are practicing basic...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
2 min read
Data Visualization for Law Firms (Live from P3)
This is a live post from P3, the Practice Innovation Conference. This session is Data Visualization for Law Firms. I have appended the session description and speaker bio at the end of this post. [I post this as a session ends so please forgive any typos or...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
4 min read
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