At the ILTA conference I was introduced to 3 different legal KM blogs of note. They are:
Caselines has a Litigation KM angle to it (but not e-discovery – which is good). I saw David Hobbie present on Litigation KM – which is his thing at Goodwin Proctor. Good presentation showing great KM implementation. Nice
Although this time convergence is not in-house counsel cutting its number of outside firms, its software providers cutting the number of platforms they work on.
One example is the partnership announced at the ILTA conference between Interwoven and Lexis. The two are combining their products into one offering Lexis is calling “Lexis Search Advantage.”
Legal KM, like all KM, has two major aspects: 1) Capturing knowledge well, and 2) Making that knowledge easy to access. I found a blog recently that help put #2 into a new light. The blog is called Search Done Right and is produced by Vivisimo, the maker of search engine Velocity.
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
I’m hearing some rumors that Lexis is finally going to integrate the analytical tool Redwood with their law firm competitive intelligence tool, AtVantage. If this becomes reality, then Lexis may have a chance at building a stronger CI tool in AtVantage by finally leveraging some of the internal information that a firm collects and
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by glambert9Presented at this year’s AALL Conference in Portland, Oregon. If you want to see the Dr. ‘CI’euss slides, skip ahead to slide number 32.
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