Beyond knowledge management to better management
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 →
Houston, we have a problem. For years the legal profession has encouraged individual excellence and rewarded individual productivity. In fact, we've come to admire those outstanding lawyers who define the best of the legal profession. Every firm has its legendary lawyer -- the person who defied odds to win an unwinnable case or found a... 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 →
For the last few Sunday nights, my family has been completely absorbed by the upstairs downstairs drama of Downton Abbey. This English import provides a glimpse of life in an aristocratic home just before the First World War. One very poignant moment occurs early in the series when a man trained to be a gentleman's... 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 →
Optimal productivity is something we may strive for, but too few of us attain. Consequently, many feel buried alive under the weight of an unruly, constantly growing To Do list. The technovores among us may attempt to alleviate the pain by using the latest software that claims to be able to organize your life. And... Continue Reading →
Does your firm invest in knowledge? Does it have an effective knowledge development strategy? Or is it simply paying lip service to the notion of being in "the knowledge business"? Even if you believe that your firm has a strong commitment to investing in its knowledge, I'd invite you to keep reading. Yesterday I had... Continue Reading →
A new year, a new beginning. Inevitably, with the change of the calendar comes the almost irresistible urge to make New Year's resolutions. The problem is that for most of us, they rarely are resolutions that govern the entire year. Rather, they are more along the lines of a little wishful thinking for the first... Continue Reading →
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