Beyond knowledge management to better management
Imagine Cleopatra as a law librarian. (Let me give you moment to wrap your mind around that thought.) Consider the following: April 10 - 16, 2011 is National Library Week. April 11, 2011 was Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes how far into the year women must work on average to earn what men... 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 →
Efficiencies for Your Bottom Line: Five Steps to Reducing Costs in the Next 6 Months Panelists: Joy Saphia, Huron (Moderator) Mary Pape, Director of Global Complex Litigation, Dell Gary Nelson, Medtronic Ellen Rosenthal, Chief Counsel, Pfizer Legal Alliance Lani Miller, Litigation Department, Bank of America [These are my notes from LegalTech NY 2011. Since I'm... Continue Reading →
Leveraging Technology to Achieve Quality and Competitive Excellence. This session is focused on how lawyers provide "value" to their clients. The presenters are Brad Blickstein (Principal, Blickstein Group, Inc,) and Kimberly Townsan (Senior Manager, Legal Administration, United Technology Corporation). [These are my notes from LegalTech NY 2011. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible... Continue Reading →
This session on Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) was presented by Mark Ross, VP Legal Solutions at Integreon and David Stanton, a litigation partner in Pillsbury's Los Angeles office. Mark is an experienced UK litigation solicitor and former partner at the UK law firm Underwoods Solicitors. Underwoods was the first UK law firm to outsource legal... Continue Reading →
As I venture out onto what may be thin ice, I'd better start with some disclaimers. I'm not a law librarian, although I have had responsibility for a law firm library. I'm not a management consultant with 14 different ways up my sleeve to help you figure out your business strategy. However, I am a... Continue Reading →
What makes lawyers so challenging? No, this is not the beginning of a lawyer joke! Rather it's the question that was answered at an informative session held at the Practising Law Institute in New York City. As part of a day-long program on legal project management, the organizers asked Mark I. Sirkin, Ph.D., to speak... Continue Reading →
Are the lawyers you know hiding from bad news? Whether you work in a law firm or an in-house law department, this is a question you have to ask yourself. As you survey the range of lawyer responses to the economic challenges of the last few years, think about the lawyers you work with. How... Continue Reading →
What's the future of the legal profession? And what role do technology and knowledge management play in the development of that future? These are the questions I've been pondering since I heard that Stephen P. Younger (President of the New York State Bar Association) had formed a Task Force to seize "an historic opportunity to... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 