Over the past 25+ years, the model of passing through the expense of online legal research to the client created a system where operating profits for the vendor were over 30%, and law firms felt immune to the total costs of using online research. Clients were paying the majority of the costs of online research, but had no voice in setting the price negotiated between firms and the vendors.
Sorry Westlaw and Lexis - The Days of Passing Charges to Clients Are Numbered | 3 Geeks... - 0 views
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At one time, it was common for firms to charge clients more than they were paying the vendor for the online research product, and were able to make an additional profit. When the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibited these charges with Rule 1.5, many firms implemented a 100% recovery model where online resources could only be used if the charge could be passed to the client.
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ost say that over the past 10 years, the percentage that the firm is paying out of pocket has steadily increased from under 10% out of pocket costs, to now almost 50% out of pocket cost.
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Has 'IT' Killed 'KM'? | 3 Geeks and a Law Blog on Jul 2, 2009 - 0 views
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I think that Knowledge Management (KM) has become so overwhelmed with technology products that the individuals in KM have become ‘tech support’ rather than knowledge managers. Yesterday, I read two different articles that reinforced my conception of what I think is a major flaw in the idea of “Knowledge Management” within law firms.
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Penny Edwards’ articles on Social Networking for the Legal Profession. Edwards mentions that the approach we take to capturing “knowledge” is a hold over of the 1990’s IT ‘centralized’, or as she put it in her book “Industrial Technology.”
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In my opinion, this type of self-cataloging and attempt at creating a ultra-structured system creates a process that is: difficult to use; doesn’t fit the way that lawyers conduct their day-to-day work; gives a false sense of believing that the knowledge has been captured and can be easily recovered; leads to user frustration and “work around” methods; and results in expensive, underutilized software resources.
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Has the Age of the Legal Knowledgebase Finally Arrived? - Software - Technologist - 0 views
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"Knowledge differentiates a law firm from its competitors," according to Gretta Rusanow of Curve Consulting, an attorney and knowledge management expert.
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Knowledge Management specialists within firms work hard to set up and maintain KM technology, but without grassroots adoption, many KM initiatives languish from lack of use. Placing the emphasis on technology, rather than user behavior, tends to distract from the real barrier to adoption: Attorneys and staff simply don't see enough individual value to take time away from urgent (and billable) day-to-day activities to complete additional tasks required by a separate knowledge management tool.
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"Too often KM becomes a conversation about technology . . . if you want to converse with lawyers about value, talk about value instead of technology," said Toby Brown of Fulbright & Jaworski. "This focuses the dialogue on the benefits to the lawyers and not on the cost of any technology involved. Solve the problem, instead of offering technology."
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In this post, guest author Jim Groff of PBWorks describes the benefits of knowledge management systems for law firms, as well as the difficulties some firms have had in convincing their attorneys and staff to adopt knowledge management solutions. Groff argues that Web 2.0 technologies can increase the adoption of knowledge management systems, and thus the benefit to law firms, by integrating the systems with attorneys' everyday experiences.
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Yet I am also rather worried by the fact that Newsgator seems to be the only kid on the block these days. There are a number of different blogging platforms, with Wordpress and Movable Type being the main contenders.
R.I.P. Enterprise RSS - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views
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For me the absence of Enterprise RSS (and perhaps along with other key infrastructure, like Enterprise Search and social tagging tools) in environments where we find wikis, blogs and social networking tools is a sign of tactical or immature implementations of enterprise social computing. We are just at the beginning of this journey.
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n this respect, I can actually see many opportunities for integrating Enterprise RSS features into Enterprise Search solutions or into existing portal platforms (actually, Confluence is a great example of a feed friendly wiki platform - both to create and consume).
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that people are talking too much about technology and products and not enough about real-world use cases. Simply stating how great RSS is and that it could be very useful won't get you much buy-in, not from management nor most importantly end-users.
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KM Space: Wikis at The Rosen Law Firm - 0 views
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Lee Rosen, the president of Rosen Law Firm, took a few minutes to talk with me about his firm's experience with wikis.Rosen is replacing his Lotus Notes platform with an externally hosted wiki from PBWiki. You may have read about the cash prize contest he ran for his employees in a story on CNN.com: Boosting Teamwork with Wikis.
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Lee was drawn to the concept of using a wiki because of its purported simplicity. He found it much easier to develop and add content.
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The firm started with the free version of PBWiki and had their wiki up and running in minutes. Some of his administrators worked with the wiki for a few months to see its functionality and how it might work within the firm. Then others in the firm started asking to join and it took off.
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The Enterprise RSS Day of Action wiki - 0 views
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (Gartner, Sept. 23, 2008) - 0 views
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This Magic Quadrant represents a snapshot of the ECM market at a particular point in time. Gartner advises readers not to compare the placement of vendors from last year to this year. The market is changing, and the criteria for selecting and ranking vendors continue to evolve. Our assessments take into account the vendors' current product offerings and overall strategies, as well as their future initiatives and product road maps. We also factor in how well vendors are driving market changes or at least adapting to changing market requirements.
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see "Dataquest Insight: Enterprise Content Management Software Market Share Analysis, Worldwide, 2007"
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Among the primary trends that IT architects and planners must consider as they develop content management strategies and determine their strategic partners are the following: ECM is increasingly becoming part of IT infrastructure. Compliance and information retention are getting higher profiles at CxO-level. Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, driven by user expectations, are influencing richer user interfaces and capabilities to empower business users. Integration and federation of content repositories will be critical in future. Application specificity — some vendors provide BCS, while others will have to focus on horizontal solutions and content-enabled vertical applications (CEVAs) in order to grow by delivering domain expertise. Alternative delivery models, such as software as a service (SaaS) and open source, are gaining increased interest.
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