by Bruce | May 26, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Few challenges within sophisticated and far-flung law firms seem as difficult to get right as Knowledge Management, and I’ve recently been exploring some theories as to why this is so. After all, lawyers of all people should excel at KM—information...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
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...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
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...
by Bruce | May 22, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
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...
by Bruce | May 14, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
The New York Law Journal is reporting that, under the auspices of the New York County Lawyers Association, "more than 60" law firms have agreed to a written pact to report to their corporate clients the makeup of legal teams by "race, gender, ethnicity,...
by Bruce | May 12, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
My article in the May 2005 print edition of Law Technology News is now up. It’s essentially a recap of my coverage of the keynote address where I served as “blogger-in-residence" at the recent CIO/CTO Conference, co-sponsored by ALM and Harvard...
