With apologies to Thomas Friedman, I can’t help but marvel at how connected the world is by technology. As I ponder KM and its applications to the practice of law, I keep stumbling upon incredible people with intriguing ideas.
One example is the Green Chameleon blog on KM. I’m not sure how I first
I continue to hold out hope that alternative billing methods will gain a true foot-hold in the legal profession. Thus far, my hopes have been dashed. Yet the possibility of this type of change continues to intrigue me.
From all that I hear, more sophisticated clients will have alternative billing as a key question on
At the core of the law firm knowledge management (KM) challenge is the problem of unstructured data. Since KM is storing useful information such that it can be easily retrieved when needed, unstructured data presents significant challenges. To clarify, ‘unstructured’ means you don’t know what it means. For instance you don’t know if ‘brown’ is
Recently I spoke to the Texas Society of CPAs (TSCPA). A friend had passed this opportunity along to me, given my geographic position. The topic was Tech Toolbox and was your standard hot geek-stuff presentation to a solo/small firm crowd. I covered everything from cool gadgets, to hosted software applications.
My first observation
As we previously noted, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (MH) and LinkedIn were putting together a deal to integrate their services on some level. This news was first noted on Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, and discussed elsewhere by Larry Bodine and others.
Well – the deal is public now. LexisNexis announced the deal and gave some
A term like ‘paperless marketing’ conjures up thoughts of e-mails. But I saw a new technology, used in marketing that caught my eye. It’s offered by nxtBook Media and creates an online version of a magazine or catalog that actually looks and feels like a paper one, but incorporates interesting technology tools to create motion
I vacillate back-and-forth between intense frustration and mild curiosity when faced with the task of defining knowledge management (KM) for law firms. When talking with lawyers about KM, the most frequent response I get is quite curious. “KM? It’s about time we get into KM. It’s absolutely necessary to a firm’s success.” But then