Category: Legal Innovation Blog

In the article “Curbing those long, lucrative hours” in the latest issue of the Economist the billable hour is said to be “not dead, but many people would like to kill it”. “More and more firms’ in-house lawyers, who typically hire and[…]

In the latest issue of Managing Partner Magazine (July/August 2010, Volume 12 Issue 12, www.mpmagazine.com) there are some interesting articles on the trends in legal spend and pricing management, which clearly points out the swung of balance of power towards the[…]

Holly G. Green has in her recent post ‘Time for an Assumption Inventory?’questioned the common statement that the only sustainable competitive advantage may be the ability to learn faster than your competitors. Instead Holly G. Green argues that “The ability for[…]

The IBM 2010 Global CEO Study reveals that competency in creative leadership leads the list for standout CEOs. Connie Harryman has further analyzed the Study in the Front End of Innovation blog post ‘Creativity is the new style of leadership’ . “Creativity is more[…]

Thanks to Susan Letterman White of Letterman White Consulting, the interesting series of articles about innovative managing partners that Law360 has been running were brought to our attention, especially the article about K&L Gates’ Managing Partner Peter Kalis. Riding the cutting edge[…]

As a follow up on our last post ‘How to compete on cost’ there was a very interesting article in Wall Street Journal about pricing strategy ‘Raise Your Prices!’ by Frank Cespedes, Benson Shapiro and Elliot Ross. The conclusion of the article is that[…]

Jordan Furlong has written an extensive article ‘How to compete on price’ on why lawyers should stop following the old advice not to compete on price and instead learn how to do it in a way that sustains the business. Many lawyers[…]

In a recent article in Times on line “Does the Law Society know there is an internet generation?” , professor Richard Susskind reveals how the Law Society in 1996 thought that he should not be allowed to speak in public. The reason?[…]

A common reaction to things that are out of our knowledge is to underestimate the difficulties and the complexity involved. Dilbert has a lovely little comic strip on this subject, where Dilbert’s boss brings good news on a bid to build a[…]

Knowledge management is more than just bringing various parts of a firm together, says Helena Hallgarn, who argues that to deliver benefits KM has to look beyond legal knowledge alone. Helena Hallgarn is former head of KM at Scandinavian firm[…]

In the post ‘Innovative Attorneys Push Forward with Virtual Law Practice’ at the Lawyerist.com Steph Kimbro explores issues relating to the use of cloud computing in law practice management. “Virtual law practice is growing as attorneys and firms see the benefits of[…]

In her recent blog post ‘A New Brand of Lawyer: Are you ready?’ Donna Seyle of Freelance Law Firm discusses a current paradigm shift in the legal services based on conclusions made by professor Richard Susskind and international lawyer/entrepreneur Jorge Colón. Professor[…]

In the knowledge management world there have sometimes seemed to be a bit of tension between social media/web 2.0 and KM. It has even been argued that they are each others opposites, that social media and web 2.0 is all[…]

In the latest issue of KIM Legal Magazine Virtual Intelligence VQ provides views on how current trends in the legal marketplace will affect the work of the knowledge professional and what role technology has to play.

In their article on Alternative Billing and the Best of ABA TECHSHOW Jim Calloway and Natalie Kelly discuss the nature of alternative billing, which “could be said to be simply a shift in the way firms use ‘time’ as the commodity and[…]

There is a clear trend on the legal market on increased collaboration and knowledge sharing within legal networks, such as Legal OnRamp, but also freely on the internet as part of the commoditisation in the light of the Legal Services Act.[…]

Jordan Furlong, a leading analyst of the global legal market, Law21, writes in The platform is changing that the legal market delivery platform is changing from big firms to internet based. He compares it to how Word took over the market[…]

In the latest issue of KIM Legal Magazine, a panel of leading KM professionals discussed innovative ways to secure fee earners contribution. Ensuring that fee earners and partners fulfill the responsibilities from a knowledge contribution point of view is a[…]

On joining online forum Legal OnRamp, Ann Björk and Helena Hallgarn from Swedish law firm Vinge recently provided all members of the group with an insight into its ’Deal Tracker’ project to maximise relevant information-sharing activities. Allowing for more sophisticated[…]

Scandinavia-based law firm Vinge created a new role, the KM lawyer, to raise effective knowledge-sharing as a firm-wide priority. Interview with Helena Hallgarn, Head of Knowledge Management. Read the entire article here: A new take on knowledge