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Legal Technology - Adopting Wikis in Law Firms - 0 views

  • This article will explore ways in which Microsoft SharePoint wikis can provide the control and structure that legal professionals require, along with the benefits of open collaboration that wikis afford.
  • use SharePoint's built-in security to control who may create, edit and view wiki pages
  • Another built-in SharePoint feature is content approval. You can use this feature to have SharePoint notify an approver when new or edited content is submitted and require an approval prior to making the content generally available.
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  • Alerts are another tool in your content control arsenal. Any wiki user may request an alert at the wiki or page level.
  • One aspect of SharePoint wikis that is not readily apparent is that each wiki page is a specially formatted Web-part page. As such, given the appropriate permissions, you can add your own Web parts to create a hybrid wiki page. At my firm we've used this trick, in conjunction with a custom workflow, to automatically add Web parts to each new wiki page as it is created
  • The adoption and use of wikis within law firms follows an evolutionary path from indifference to skepticism, to partial, then full adoption. The rate at which a firm moves along this adoption curve will depend both on how quickly legal professionals embrace the belief that collaborative authorship can efficiently produce high-quality reference materials, as well as how effectively technical professionals implement the tools for control and organization of the authorship process that lawyers demand.
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    Mark Gerow, IT professional with the Fenwick & West law firm in San Francisco, Law.com, Feb 20, 2009
Lars Bauer

Five things every legal practice should know about Web 2.0 Technology (via Jason the Co... - 0 views

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    Presentation by Mary Abraham & Lee Bryant, February 2009
Lars Bauer

Dirkzwager first to go with Open Text Sharepoint DMS offering - 0 views

  • The Dutch law firm Dirkzwager has become the first legal practice worldwide to sign up for the Legal Information Management Solution (LIMS) – Open Text's new Microsoft Sharepoint-based document management system.
  • The project will encompass both document and email management – and also see Open Text being integrated to Dirkzwager's Aderant practice management system.
  • After several years of running with Open Text (previously Hummingbird) as its DMS platform in London and Interwoven Worksite in New York, Clifford Chance has standardized on Open Text DM as its global document management system and is swapping out Interwoven from all its American offices
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    The Orange Rag - from Legal Technology Insider, Jan 14, 2009
Lars Bauer

SydneyPLUS International - 0 views

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    "SydneyPLUS is a leading developer of knowledge management solutions. Since 1977, we have partnered with some of the world's top businesses - including Fortune 1000 companies and leading law firms - to improve knowledge delivery and achieve business and organizational results."
Lars Bauer

Amazon.com: Creating Client Extranets with SharePoint 2003 (Mark Gerow, 2006) - 0 views

  • Mark Gerow has more than 20 years of experience in IT, professional services, and software product development, and has provided consulting to hundreds of companies throughout the San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. He currently works for Fenwick & West, LLP, where he is responsible for defining and implementing the firm’s intranet and extranet strategies using SharePoint technologies.
  • Creating Client Extranets with SharePoint 2003 is a guide for creating client-facing extranets using SharePoint 2003. This book serves as a how-to for building full-featured extranets using SharePoint 2003 and .NET technologies.
Lars Bauer

KM Space - 0 views

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    Knowledge management, enterprise 2.0, and social networking for lawyers
Lars Bauer

Legal Technology - Implementing Large-Scale Extranets - 0 views

  • In this article I'll discuss how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (SharePoint) has been used at Fenwick & West to meet the challenge of making extranets available for each and every matter opened. I'll also cover the key issues that must be addressed in order to scale to thousands of extranets and terabytes of data. At the conclusion of this article you'll have a better idea of what can be accomplished with SharePoint at your firm, as well as a road map to get you started.
  • The key factors that I will discuss are:Automated provisioningAutomated administrationGranular backupTraining-the-trainersIterative refinement
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    Nov. 19, 2007, by Mark Gerow, Fenwick & West
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KMWorld.com: Law firms reinvent KM - 0 views

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    by Judith Lamont, July 1, 2005
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Slides from Matthew Parsons' talk about wikis and blogs at law firms at the Knowledge M... - 0 views

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    Slides from Matthew Parsons' talk about wikis and blogs at law firms at the Knowledge Management for the Legal Profession Conference
Lars Bauer

Portals and KM: Wikis in Knowledge Management at Law Firms - Part One: ThoughtFarmer Ex... - 0 views

  • following session about wikis use in law firms, primarily for knowledge management. It was led by two experienced knowledge management professionals with major firms. They shared their experiences within their firms.
  • The first example was a Canadian law firm with 100 lawyers and 100 support staff. Prior to the wiki, documents were stored individually in folders on a shared drive with no consistency.
  • They were already using Domino so they choose the Domino wiki for their initial effort.
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  • There were wikis for different practice groups and they were searchable.
  • Their early success created a big demand. Every group wanted wikis. Updating was given to assistants, clerks & associates. However the technology was not perfect. You had to sign on separately for each wiki and they were creating silos of information. To solve this issue they looked at a number of enterprise tools and found most too feature rich and complex for lawyers to use them.
  • They went with Thought Farmer for its simplicity and ease of interface. (see my review - ThoughtFarmer – Intranet 2.0). It has Web 2.0 features – staff profile, tagging, RSS, social networking, email publishing, - also search with relevancy ranking.
  • The presenter’s thoughts on lessons learned include: select an easy to use tool, do not force participation, transfer the process of updating to groups and develop a process for each group. You should also offer training and share success stories. They held individual training in 10 to 15 minute sessions.
  • They have found that not all users will be active contributors and the ROI is hard to measure. The tool should also be more Blackberry friendly. However, overall it seems to be a great success.
Lars Bauer

ILTA Conference 2008 - Wikis in Law Firms - 0 views

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    Knowledge Management Track at ILTA Conference 2008
Lars Bauer

TakingAIIM: KM, E2.0 and The Law - 0 views

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    Oct. 3, 2008, by Carl Frappaolo
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