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Pay Wars & MSO’s: Huh?
David Morley, former head of Allen & Overy and, happy disclosure, a long-time friend, just published an article over at law.com that starts like this: The call usually comes on a Friday afternoon. A star partner has an offer from a rival: an eight-figure... read more +48 Hours Left to Take the User Survey
The "Adam Smith, Esq." user survey comes down this Friday night. If you haven't had a chance to spend the three minutes it takes, please do so. Thanks! Full report, of course, to follow.
100 Million “Missing” Asian Women
So this from Slate has nothing to do with law firms, but it's too delicious an economic commentary to pass up. Asking, "What is economics, anyway?," the piece proceeds to analyze (and largely debunk) a sinister theory first put forth 15 years ago...
Next on the KM Horizon: Simplicity (We’re Serious!)
CIO Insight often is a good read because, for my money, they provide the clearest and most convincing links between "hey, that's cool!" technology and the delivery of hardheaded on-the-ground value to management. Well, they've done it again, with an...
“Organizational Network Analysis,” Or Why Your Litigators Don’t Talk to Your Deal Lawyers
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...
Enron’s 1.5-Million Emails: A Window Into Knowledge Management?
Today's New York Times has an article purporting to recount what patterns a few computer science professors have discovered in 1.5-million internal Enron email messages, drawn from the 1999-2001 period. "Purporting" because the article is infuriatingly...