Beyond knowledge management to better management
Forty years ago today, my parents packed up their children and every material possession they had to move to the other side of the world. In retrospect, I can only marvel at the bravery involved in taking that step. With that move they had to start all over again -- in a culture and climate... Continue Reading →
If you're in law firm management, you've probably been feeling a bit like Ebeneezer Scrooge staring at an unhappy future as several bloggers** recently painted a relentlessly challenging picture of the law firm of the future. (In Charles Dickens' A Chrismas Carol, Scrooge's deceased partner, Jacob Marley, warns him in a dream that he is headed... Continue Reading →
Every good conversation invites participation, and I've found it impossible to resist jumping into the very interesting conversation Toby Brown and Ron Friedmann have begun online regarding possible business models for large law firms. The genesis of the conversation was a session at the 2010 International Legal Technology Association Conference in which Ron Friedmann, Gerard... Continue Reading →
A Notice to Lexis and Westlaw: You would be well-advised to read this post since it proposes a better model for your products. (As for the royalty checks you'll owe me, let's talk...) For a few brief months early in my legal career, I was a litigation associate. As such, the main focus of my... Continue Reading →
If there is one theme that emerges from my many conversations with lawyers, it is their weariness with the seeming inability of legal IT vendors to produce applications that work in an intuitive, simple and effective way. In fact, lawyers often seem resigned to struggling constantly with software that forces them to adapt to it,... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 