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LegalTech 08

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Top Priorities of Law Firm Knowledge Management for 2008

The last item on the agenda for the roundtable was for each person to quickly identify their top knowledge management priority for the coming year. The most mentioned priorities were: Intranet/portal redesign or implementation (Many are moving to Sharepoint 2007) Capturing matter information and matter profiling Enterprise search Auto-categorization/metadata extraction Collaborative tools like wikis and [...]

What’s Hot and What’s Tough in Law Firm Knowledge Management

The third session was a roundtable on What’s Hot and What’s Tough in knowledge management. We asked the participants to submit their topic by adding into a wiki we set up for the event. We ended up with 58 entries, with over 80% of the attendees submitting an item. Some participants submitted more than one. [...]

Email and Knowledge Management

We started this session at the roundtable by talking about some of the factors of email that are useful to knowledge management. Some elements of an email that are relevant to knowledge management are: The parties – showing the flow of communication Body of the message – useful information may be in the body of [...]

Knowledge Management and E-discovery

The first session at the roundtable was about trying to reconcile knowledge management and e-discovery. Is there interplay between the two? There is certainly a technology tools theme. Both are trying to deal with big volumes of information. However, with E-discovery it is mandatory; with knowledge management it is discretionary. With EDD, you’re willing to [...]

Thoughts on Knowledge Management Roundtable

I attended an informal gathering of thought leaders on law firm knowledge management and the heads of knowledge management at large law firms. There were four discussion blocks: E-Discovery and Knowledge Management Email and Knowledge Management What’s Hot and What’s Tough in Knowledge Management Top Projects in Knowledge Management I am not revealing the names [...]

LegalTech Wrap Up

Here are my posts from LegalTech: Legal Technology Best Practices Creating Efficiency and Productivity in Law Firms Technology Integration – The New Face of Law Firms Law Technology News Awards Dinner ClosingBinders.com Practice Management Although Monica Bay encouraged blogging from LegalTech, the facilities were lacking. The WiFi was spotty and was not free. There were [...]

Practice Management – Leveraging Legal Technology

George Rudoy, Director of Global Practice Technology and Information Services at Shearman and Sterling LLPMichelle Mahoney, Director Applied Legal Technology at Mallesons Stephen Jaques Kelly Inglese, Director Litigation Support Services at McCarthy Tétrault LLP What is Practice Management? George’s vision of practice management is the integration of knowledge management, library services, future services, conflicts and [...]

ClosingBinders.com at LegalTech

It was great to run into old friends and former colleagues Mark Mansoor and Bernie Podurgiel of ClosingBinders.com at LegalTech. Both Bernie and Mark were attorneys at Goodwin Procter they started ClosingBinders.com. Since then, they have managed to add 30%+ of the AmLaw 100 firms as clients. ClosingBinders.com convert thick, bulky paper closing binders into [...]

Law Technology News Awards Dinner

I spent Tuesday night at the Law Technology News Awards Dinner. Peter Lane, our Chief Information Officer, picked up an award for Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm for our iStaff system. iStaff is a system designed by our practice managers and attorneys staffing managers to give them information needed for assigning [...]

Interwoven Express Search = WOW!!

I have been a basher of Interwoven for years, ever since we deployed it (when it was called iManage) almost a decade ago. It has always been good at managing documents and retrieving your documents. It shortcomings was in finding other people’s documents. Especially when you were not sure if the document existed. Interwoven is [...]

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