How do you build upon the strengths of the administrative people within your law firm – from the mail room to the C-level? We thought of this question after we read a Hildebrandt Baker Robbins blog post called “One Word For Talent.” In that post, Mark Sirkin brings up the fact that firms
Seems that Client Relationship Management (CRM) expenses aren’t the only perceived wasteful expenditures on a law firm’s balance sheet. One other costly resource that firms seem to be taking another look at lately is their Martindale-Hubbell contracts. One librarian from a mid-sized Georgia firm decided to query her peers to see if they also thought
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Way back in the day, I was a techie-librarian at Oklahoma City University School of Law. One of the list servs that I frequently monitored (and still monitor today) is the Technoids list serv which discusses technology issues that law school technology workers face. Last week, an interesting post came
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Back in March, I wrote an “Open Letter to New Lexis.com” where I asked that they “let everyone know exactly who you are, what you can do, and how much you are going to cost us.” Last week, I talked with Marc Osborn and Jorge Martinez of LexisNexis and they gave me a
Someone pointed out to me today that October 1, 2010 is 10/01/10 (for us Americans, anyway) and they were surprised that Google hadn’t done something wacky with their logo today. The assumption we both made was that Google will probably wait until 10/10/10 (that works for non-US dates, too) and will be creative that day.
“If I could talk to a class of law students, this is what I would say that would help them once they enter the ‘real world’ of working in a law firm.”
Everyone seems to be picking on the way law schools prepare their graduates for the work force… but, what exactly would you do
Steven B. Roosa, partner with ReedSmith, wrote an enlightening client alert yesterday explaining that in the business world that requires secure communications over the Internet, it requires the company’s General Counsel to step up to that task. The alert focuses on attacks on electronic information conducted through websites that use the “Certificate of Authority
For some reason, I missed the announcement last week of this “concept” phone from design wiz Billy May (the designer, not the recently deceased Milly Mays of OxyClean fame). If you haven’t watched this video of what a phone could do, you need to. It looks simply amazing.
I’m wondering if something like this will
There have been a couple of very interesting opinions coming out of New York recently. I’ll lay out the decisions below, but my reading of these decisions tells me that if you’re a lawyer in New York, you should suggest to your clients that they shutdown their Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any other social media
Tell us something that you spent a lot of money on, support and promote, but just isn’t worth all the money, time and effort?
This question popped up at one of our “Curry and a Pint Nights” and the group started calling out programs, technology, outsourced materials, and even people as examples. When I asked