As I discovered at last week's Ark Legal KM Conference, one of the benefits of being a conference co-chair is that you have an opportunity to provide some closing remarks. Eager to take advantage of this opportunity, I prepared my remarks and a slide deck before the conference started. However, by the end of the... Continue Reading →
Henderson: Special Change Management Problems Confronted by Law Firms #ArkKM
William D. Henderson is a professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law; Director, Center on the Global Legal Profession. [These are my notes from the 2013 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the... Continue Reading →
Bruce MacEwen: Growth is Dead, Now What? #ArkKM
Bruce MacEwen is president of Adam Smith, Esq. LLC and president, JD Match. Bruce is an influential blogger at Adam Smith Esq. and author of Growth is Dead. [These are my notes from the 2013 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end... Continue Reading →
Size Matters: An Introduction to Big Data
"We're here to tell you that size matters." This is how we began a presentation today on Big Data. I had the pleasure of presenting with Maura R. Grossman, Counsel at Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Chad C. Ergun, Director, Global Practice Services & Business Intelligence, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [These are my notes... Continue Reading →
Matter Management, Pricing and Profitability
The speakers are Gene Berger (Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis, Dechert), David B. Hobbie (Litigation Knowledge Manager, Goodwin Procter) and Richard B. Friedman (Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge). [These are my notes from the 2012 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the... Continue Reading →
Why is Senior Law Firm Management Now Driving Knowledge Strategy?
The panelists are Thomas Kennedy (Partner & Global Head of Knowledge Strategy, Skadden, Arps), Kenneth Bender (Partner, Paul Hastings) and Jack Bostelman (President, KM/JD Consulting LLC and former partner, Sullivan & Cromwell). [These are my notes from the 2012 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as... Continue Reading →
Written in the Stars:The Truth Behind Lawyer Personalities and KM Adoption
Sally Gonzalez is Global Chief Information Officer, SNR Denton US LLP. [These are my notes from the 2012 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the occasional typographical or grammatical error. Please excuse those. To the... Continue Reading →
Disruption, Transformation and a Matter-Centric View of Process
Oz Benamram (CKO, White & Case) and Christopher F. Boyd (Senior Director of Professional Services) will present a framework for implementing some of the innovative ideas we've discussed at this conference. [These are my notes from the 2 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible... Continue Reading →