Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. I am now organizing Tweets by broad topics
Mainstream Media Reports on the Legal Market
NYTimes: What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering http://nyti.ms/uhQK6Q || Is there any hope for US law schools? 20 Nov
NY Times – more lawyers skip partner track to start own practices http://nyti.ms/sXf2Tz || anecdotal but indicates MSM still taking note 24 Nov
WSJ: At GE, Robo-Lawyers: Oil + Gas Unit Tests Online Resolution to Control Costs http://on.wsj.com/uXBGm5 | blip or trend? (w @Cybersettle) 28 Nov
The Price to Play Its Way http://nyti.ms/sBm2lo || NY Times Biz sec cover story rips into ABA law school accreditation (HT @richards1000) 17 Dec
BigLaw Management
The Lawyer: Lawyers and business plans <sigh> http://bit.ly/tp0xeR || time for BigLaw to get serious about strategy 25 Nov
@AmLawDaily ABA Panel Says No to Outside Law Firm Ownership bit.ly/tHTGR8 || Empirical evidence supporting this “client protection”? 5 Dec
RT @gnawledge (3 Geeks) The End of Traditional Billing http://bit.ly/sCpmPz || law firms have lost pricing control 6 Dec
Hildebrandt Blog: Rising expenses and uncertain economy cause firms to re-evaluate staffing http://bit.ly/uXo2wP || Agreed 9 Dec
Legal Process Outsourcing
The Lawyer (UK) analyzes costs of legal + biz support globally. http://bit.ly/tdUQoX || will more firms nearshore, farshore, or use LPO? 21 Nov
RT @redbridgestrat Beyond India – Optimizing the Locations of Offshore Operations http://bit.ly/uJrMbl || Good LPO analysis 23 Nov
@ALB_magazine: Aussie GCs say legal process outsourcing (LPO) here to stay, better than paralegals bit.ly/uJKiwt 28 Nov
Legal Week: Eversheds mulls low-cost service after joint LPO bid falls thru http://bit.ly/tu8BS7 | can firms survive w/o lower cost options? 7 Dec
Fronterion legal processing outsourcing predictions: Ten for 2012 http://bit.ly/veiwyB || LPO has transformed market but faces challenges 12 Dec
@DannyErtel on legal process outsourcing: Selection criteria that are fit for purpose bit.ly/sLWfh7 || gd advice 4 GC looking at LPO 12 Dec
e-Discovery
Pippins v KPMG #eDiscovery: @chrisdaleoxford (http://bit.ly/rDDnmi) on Craig Ball’s http://bit.ly/s9y2xM || holds + proportionality 25 Nov
LeClair Ryan’s @denniskiker: Who Will Save #eDiscovery? Say “Hello” to Big Data! http://bit.ly/rLjiZk || Will we need quant jocks? 2 Dec
a rel=”nofollow” href=”https://twitter.com/#%21/RalphLosey”>@RalphLosey on human doc review limits bit.ly/vc2eR0; I too flagged #eDiscovery Gold Standard bit.ly/tYje7z | more evid today 12 Dec
@DannyErtel post: HP – %5 legal process outsourcing doc review in 2006 to 80% in 2011 bit.ly/w3oWAs || #eDiscovery #LawFactory 20 Dec
Legal Tech
Two New State Bar Ethics Opinions Suggest Cloud Computing OK http://bit.ly/s3jzqe (via @catalystsecure @bobambrogi) || BigLaw CIO take note
The cloud’s dark lining. Connected MS OneNote to SkyDrive to sync to iPad. With OneNote saving to cloud, as fast typist, I see lag. #in 14 Dec