I recently participated in the LMA/ Bloomberg Law Survey (you can participate here before March 7th) on trends in legal marketing, business development, pricing, competitive intelligence and knowledge management. I know, quite the range of topics. MarkGediman and I blogged a fair bit last year about the Bloomberg Law survey results, and I don’t
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This is one of those posts where I start writing down my thoughts, not really sure where I’m going to end. However, that never stopped me before, so why let it stop me now?
When I was at a Westlaw lunch today discussing the AALL conference in Philadelphia, I had a
There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and twitter this week about the Bloomberg Law article “Law Firm Librarians Feel Underused and Underpaid” and the accompanying survey. First off, I want to thank Bloomberg BNA for conducting this survey, sharing the results with the law librarian community and David Perla,
I just returned from the AALL annual meeting in Philadelphia and had an interesting discussion with a colleague about Google. First, let me set the scene: I was on a panel with Zena Applebaum and we had just answered a question about our favorite CI resources. A member of the audience then asked why neither
When I started in law firm competitive intelligence (CI),
there were few of us doing it and making any headway at the time. Over time, lots of people have tried to do
legal CI, Librarians, marketing folks, even seasoned CI professionals from
other industries have tried their hand at it, but eventually walked away. There
Update 11/18/2014: A recording of the presentation, handouts, and examples are available on the CIBlawg site.
NOTE: The Webinar has been over-subscribed! Unfortunately, this may mean that some of you may not be able to log in and listen.
The Slides of the presentation will be available shortly after the webinar. Seems like AALL and PLL have
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Law Technology News recently published a two-part series on Competative Intelligence, authored by Oz Benemram and Louise Tsang.
Focused and to the point, the articles offer a nice primer on points to consider
Someone asked me recently why I think more and more law firms are creating CI roles or increasing their CI capacity, encouraging their BD and Library staff to work more closely so forth. I didn’t really have a good answer on the spot, “cause it makes good business sense, or because market competition and consolidation
Part 2 of the The Legal Intelligencer’s ongoing series on Law Firm Competitive Intelligence came out on May 13th. The author, Gina Passarelli, makes a few points that, well, let’s just say I have a different perspective on.
Let’s start with the firms that were interviewed for this article. They are AMLAW100 firms with resources and budgets (personnel and
I recently returned from the 29th annual Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Conference in sunny and warm Orlando. The conference was a terrific networking event as per usual. I am constantly impressed, and inspired by the professionals who work in CI across a variety of industries every day. But I am also intrigued by