Sentences with phrase «of knowledge management lawyers»

In addition, LPM was also a topic at a recent meeting of a peer group of knowledge management lawyers.

Not exact matches

«Our Knowledge Management and Technology departments designed ODConnect to be a single source for firm content that helps the firm's lawyers and staff service their clients more efficiently and effectively,» said Patrick DiDomenico, director of knowledge management at OgletreeKnowledge Management and Technology departments designed ODConnect to be a single source for firm content that helps the firm's lawyers and staff service their clients more efficiently and effectively,» said Patrick DiDomenico, director of knowledge management at OgletreManagement and Technology departments designed ODConnect to be a single source for firm content that helps the firm's lawyers and staff service their clients more efficiently and effectively,» said Patrick DiDomenico, director of knowledge management at Ogletreeknowledge management at Ogletremanagement at Ogletree Deakins.

Within these broad practice areas, their lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

Within these broad practice areas, our lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

Glenn LaForce, vice president of global sales & marketing at Handshake Software, added: «Lawyers, CIOs and Knowledge Management professionals tell us they want one system to deliver one - stop KM information to their users.

Kingsley Martin, a lawyer and leading legal knowledge management expert, formed KIACC to develop this tool and help lawyers gain control of their documents.

Lawyers will never be able to manage themselves, or allow anyone else to manage them, until they have learned that the law is not the source of all knowledge, that lawyers are not inherently able to solve all problems, that the problems of law firms are not unique and not beyond the scope of accepted management theory, and that professional managers have valuable skills and knowledge which deserve attention and rLawyers will never be able to manage themselves, or allow anyone else to manage them, until they have learned that the law is not the source of all knowledge, that lawyers are not inherently able to solve all problems, that the problems of law firms are not unique and not beyond the scope of accepted management theory, and that professional managers have valuable skills and knowledge which deserve attention and rlawyers are not inherently able to solve all problems, that the problems of law firms are not unique and not beyond the scope of accepted management theory, and that professional managers have valuable skills and knowledge which deserve attention and respect.

Knowledge management boils down to amplifying the most valuable asset in a law firm — the expertise and knowledge of lawyers, according to Camille Reynolds, Senior Director of Knowledge Management for Fenwick & Knowledge management boils down to amplifying the most valuable asset in a law firm — the expertise and knowledge of lawyers, according to Camille Reynolds, Senior Director of Knowledge Management for Fenwick &management boils down to amplifying the most valuable asset in a law firm — the expertise and knowledge of lawyers, according to Camille Reynolds, Senior Director of Knowledge Management for Fenwick & knowledge of lawyers, according to Camille Reynolds, Senior Director of Knowledge Management for Fenwick & Knowledge Management for Fenwick &Management for Fenwick & West LLP.

He indicated, at that time, that the focus of the firm's KM efforts was on helping each lawyer manage their own personal knowledge; hence Personal Knowledge Managemeknowledge; hence Personal Knowledge ManagemeKnowledge Management (PKM).

Some core contributors: Steve Matthews, who authors Vancouver Law Librarian Blog and VLLB Linkblog and created Florida Lawyers Blog Watch; Connie Crosby is a consultant at Crosby Group Consulting in Toronto and also authors Connie Crosby; Shaunna Mireau is director of knowledge management and libraries at Field Law in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Allison C. Shields is the founder and president of Legal Ease Consulting Inc. and also authors Legal Ease Blog and contributes to Lawyerist; Dan Pinnington Dan is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto.

However, whatever may be the limits of machine or artificial intelligence, in the near term future lawyers must not be afraid to embrace creative, technological approaches to grappling with the problem of knowledge management.

Knowledge management is a logical tool for lawyers to take advantage of to better practice and serve our clients — but its hard to get lawyers to buy in to it.

In a recent Knowledge Management seminar, a number of the law librarians attending emphasized how valuable it was having a large work area for lawyers to use.

Since then, Mark has been a sought - after speaker for audiences in the legal profession on the use of the Internet, and he has gone on to publish several additional books which have played a prominent role in establishing a specialized Internet knowledge base for lawyers and legal management professionals.

He has assisted leaders of law firms ranging from 200 to 1,000 + lawyers, on a wide variety of practice management initiatives, including knowledge management and legal project management.

In this Special Report, Connie suggests several ways lawyers can begin the process of knowledge and experience management, even for those who haven't previously considered it.

The attorney's practice area; their target clients; the breadth or depth of an attorney's knowledge; the firm culture and compensation system; the maturity of the attorney's practice; the lawyer's matter management skills; their billing rates and competitive position; and the lawyer's professional relationships are so varied and dynamic that no two lawyer's practices are truly similar.

The decision to use the firm as the author reflects the historical evolution of our Legislative Update where the responsibility lies with the Knowledge Management Group itself, and not with individual lawyers.

Interviews with various Canadian KM directors, talking about where we are with knowledge management as well as the growing role of lawyers in KM.

The proposed bloggers were Knowledge Management lawyers who are subject matter experts, and authors of both the legislative newsletter and the internal blog.

The real estate team was introduced to ACE by Matthew Whalley, BLP's head of legal risk consultancy, who joined BLP from HSBC in 2011 to assist the 706 - lawyer firm with furthering its knowledge management and legal technology capability.

Typically, a senior partner spends a significant amount of hands - on time, or even full - time, working with practice group leadership and the firm's managing partner or chairman to design and implement knowledge management initiatives that can dramatically change the way lawyers actually practice and that support the firm's strategic goals.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

lawyers or law firms for the management of contracts, content, IP, compliance, data, records, e-signature, policies, process, and especially knowledge.

The strengthening of court control has led to a more disciplined approach by lawyers and clients to the instruction of experts; the knowledge that the case management judge might not permit expert evidence at all or might restrict it to a single joint expert, or limit the fees payable or recoverable, has reduced the use of expert evidence to bolster cases, and has possibly controlled expenditure on experts, at least in some cases.

Here's what I envision as the four key characteristics of private knowledge management teams for lawyers:

Among his interview subjects are leaders of companies who develop legal document products, practice management software or e-discovery tools; as well as cybersecurity experts, BigLaw knowledge officers and small - firm lawyers who leverage technology in their practices.

A number of firms are interested in it as a knowledge management tool for capturing and searching its lawyers» skills and expertise.

Following a fifteen year career as a lawyer in the UK, mainly as in - house counsel, Euan moved to Canada in 2011 and was Director, Knowledge Management at one of Western Canada's leading firms for six years.

Laurie regularly monitors case law and legislative amendments and provides updates to lawyers and clients on current developments and emerging issues, prepares papers for seminars, both internally for clients and externally for professional associations, and is a member of the firm's knowledge management committee responsible for the collection, organization and management of precedents, research memoranda and other legal information resources.

For this edition of #LegalTechLives, I spoke with Ron Friedmann, who has a wide range of experience and expertise in law practice management, knowledge management, legal marketing, and technology for lawyers.

We work on some of the most dynamic roles in which knowledge management doesn't just support lawyers, it is integral to client relationships and business success.

Ron Friedmann has a wide range of experience and expertise in law practice management, knowledge management, legal marketing, and technology for lawyers.

Clients are asked to rate individual lawyers and law firms on the following client service criteria: quality of legal advice, commercial awareness, industry knowledge, strategic thinking, billing transparency, tailored fee structures, value for money, responsiveness, effective communication, clarity of documentation, sharing of expertise, appropriate staffing, project management, use of technology, loyalty and ethics.

In this book the authors have distilled their knowledge and experience of practice and risk management into a pocket guide of tips, checklists and ideas to help lawyers be more successful in their practices.

Pinsent Masons was the third and final standout firm for technology and data analytics, recognised for its knowledge management system, which guides lawyers through the steps of a case while connecting them to relevant documents.

According to most law firms» websites, even some of the largest and most challenging to operate, their offices contain lawyers and nobody else — all the day - to - day operations that sustain the firm, from accounting to marketing to IT to knowledge management, apparently happen independently, as if by magic.

The position offers a great possibility to obtain understanding of commercial law and knowledge management skills, which are needed in every lawyer position also outside the law office environment.

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of my book, Knowledge Management for Lawyers, called «The Future of Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession.»

The strength of our lawyers» sector knowledge coupled with strong leadership, good project management and a team approach helps our clients achieve their commercial objectives.

Danielle Olofsson is a knowledge management lawyer at Dentons Canada LLP in charge of civil law.

Danielle Olofsson is a knowledge management lawyer at FMC LLP in charge of civil law.

These include copyright issues affecting legal research and writing, recovery of online legal research costs, selecting and acquiring legal resources, knowledge management for lawyers, confidentiality issues and Internet research, and legal research and writing malpractice.

A brief consideration of possible roles to consider in recruiting lawyers in a large firm gives me this list: rainmaker, research lawyer, knowledge management lawyer, support lawyer, and technical subject specialist.

Questions on thought leadership, pricing, knowledge management & future challenges for lawyers were put to fellows of the College of Law Practice Management for the COLPM Futures Conference in Chicago recently and published in a special issue of InsideLegal's Thought Leaders Digest last week — below are the questions & my responses: Q1 — Thought leadership... Continmanagement & future challenges for lawyers were put to fellows of the College of Law Practice Management for the COLPM Futures Conference in Chicago recently and published in a special issue of InsideLegal's Thought Leaders Digest last week — below are the questions & my responses: Q1 — Thought leadership... ContinManagement for the COLPM Futures Conference in Chicago recently and published in a special issue of InsideLegal's Thought Leaders Digest last week — below are the questions & my responses: Q1 — Thought leadership... Continue Reading

He also contributes tremendously to the body of knowledge provided by the ABA's Law Practice Management Division, helping to deliver high - quality practice management resources to lawyers as an organizer, speaker, and author, including books on LinkedIn and Facebook that are best - sellers in the legal Management Division, helping to deliver high - quality practice management resources to lawyers as an organizer, speaker, and author, including books on LinkedIn and Facebook that are best - sellers in the legal management resources to lawyers as an organizer, speaker, and author, including books on LinkedIn and Facebook that are best - sellers in the legal community.

RELATION: AALL 2009 Unofficial Conference Wiki; AALL Computing Services SIS Tools and Gadgets; Civil Law Dictionary, organized by Vicenc Feliu; Deontic Logic Wiki; English Medieval Legal Documents Wiki: Online Databases Available on the Web; Hicks Morley (description of internal Wiki); Intellogist; IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law; Judgepedia; JuraWiki.de; JurisPedia: The Shared Law; LawLibWik, organized by Debbie Ginsberg; LawLibWik: Law Library Wikis, organized by Debbie Ginsberg; LawLibWik: Law School Wikis, organized by Debbie Ginsberg; LawLibWik: Legal Wikis, organized by Debbie Ginsberg; LexCraft; PBworks Legal Edition; Rosen Law (description of internal Wiki); SLA Knowledge Management Division; Wandering Law Librarian, organized by Brent Johnson; Web 2.0 for Lawyers, by S2KM Limited; Wex; Wiki-Law.org; Wikipedia: Law; Wikis in Law Firms (Posts from sLaw): Connie Crosby's Post of Feb. 15, 2008; Simon Fodden's Post of Oct. 8, 2008.

Patrick is the author of the book Knowledge Management for Lawyers, published by the American Bar Association.

If, however, the knowledge or skill can be shared by a wider group (e.g., risk and practice management issues, legal ethics), the «pool» of potential lawyers is much wider.

Most lawyers already use knowledge management software and document management solutions, but proofreading software is still relatively unheard of and not widely used.