Strategic Legal Technology

News and developments, with an emphasis on law firm and law practice structure.

Author: Ron Friedmann is a lawyer and legal market consultant.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Legal Marketing & Consulting • Legal Technology • Consultant

Recent Posts from Strategic Legal Technology

Dorsey & Whitney Offers Fixed Price Document Review
AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney last week announced LegalMine, an integrated e-discovery service at a fixed price per document. LegalMine is "a powerful tool to review huge quantities of documents – efficiently, thoroughly…
Knowledge Management at 2008 ILTA Annual Conference
The Knowledge Management Peer Group of ILTA is hosting several sessions at the International Legal Technology Association annual meeting next week. Listed below are the KM sessions. Monday, August 25, 2008: KM Peer Group Sessions…
Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis Loses Share to Thomson Reuters' Westlaw in Large Law Firms
The 2007 large law firm librarian survey is out. Some of the data surprise me. Competitive Advantage (big PDF) in Law Firm Inc. magazine (an American Lawyer, now Incisive Media, publication) includes results of a…
Litigators Get a Bad Report Card + Ways to Do Better
The The New York Times reported last week (8 Aug 2008) on a study analyzing the cost of not settling law suits. Defense lawyers make bad calls not to settle in almost 1 out of…
Preservation versus Collection in E-Discovery
If corporations succeed in managing and preserving information, will e-discovery collection problems disappear? I've previously written about "e-discovery convergence," the idea that enterprise "information life cycle" management products may reduce or eliminate the need for…
The Chase for Litigation Support and EDD Expertise
E-discovery is hot. As well it should be with the explosion in data volume and relatively swift (for the legal market) transition from paper to digital data. A just-released salary survey of law firm EDD…
Is Facebook Worth the Time for Legal Professionals
I took the plunge and created a Facebook profile a few weeks ago. I am still trying to decide if it’s worth the time. I suspect many legal professionals, from large firm lawyers to CIOs…
Legal Process Outsourcing: New Articles, Upcoming ABA Panel
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) continues to be in the news. Law Practice Management magazine (a publication of the Law Practice Management section of the American Bar Association) has a feature article on it. Separately, next…
InnovAction Awards for 2008
The three InnovAction Awards for 2008 have been announced. InnovAction is a program of the College of Law Practice of Management. I am a trustee of COLPM and a Friend of InnovAction but had no…
Interwoven to Acquire Discovery Mining, Inc.
On July 24, Interwoven, best known in the legal market as a leading developer of document management software for large law firms, announced it will acquire e-discovery player Discovery Mining, Inc. According the Interwoven press…