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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +Wikis 101
CIO Insight has the shortest, sweetest guide to wikis behind the firewall that I've yet seen: Wikis are a social innovation, not a technological one. Wikis turn the notion of "permissions" built into traditional knowledge management DMS's and CMS's upside...
Chief Strategy Officers: The Line Forms to Your Left
Pepper-Hamilton, HQ'd in Philadelphia, which I've always been irrationally fond of, becomes the latest firm I'm aware of to appoint a Chief Strategy Officer—a litigation partner whose bio highlights his fascination with issues at the intersection of law and...
“Adam Smith, Esq.” Finalist Among Practice Management Blogs
Congratulations are in order to Jim Calloway for winning the "Favorite Practice Management" blog award over at TechnoLawyer (complete list of winners and finalists). I'm also pleased to report that "Adam Smith, Esq." and Dennis Kennedy...
Blogs As KM Platforms: One Result Is In
I previously wrote on the notion of knowledge-focused enterprises (make that: law firms) using internal, behind-the-firewall blogs as tools for "doing" Knowledge Management. For example, if your firm has one or two individuals expert in...
Malcolm Ryder Talks KM
My college friend Malcolm Ryder has been working in quasi-stealth mode for awhile now on a blog at the intersection of business strategy, IT consulting, and design, called Archestra, for the "architecture of enterprise strategy." Just recently...