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KM Best Practices

Tue, 29 May 2007 11:25:10 -0800

At a February 2007 large law firm knowledge management meeting, a panel of four KM professionals and the audience discussed best practices and the connection to KM. This article by Ron Friedmann reports the highlights of the discussion at that meeting.

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Resources

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:34:03 -0800

Terri Wilson focuses on workshops, websites, and other sources to assist in your exploration into the creative world, both professionally and personally. This is Terri's last column, and I thank her for a year of wonderful contributions.

LawPro Links - An A to Z Directory of Web Resources

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:13:22 -0800

Sabrina I. Pacifici has revised and updated her guide to a core group of reliable, content rich resources for researchers. Highlighted topics include: a new search engine for legal blogs, one for free federal district court filings, and one for Wikipedia; an updated legal research guide from M.G. Gallagher Law Library, government sponsored e-waste and recycling services, a filmology of librarians in the movies, the 10 best corporate intranets of 2007, the launch of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project Website, and much more.

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:04:23 -0800

Marcus P. Zillman's extensive guide to knowledge discovery technologies, programs, resources and sites includes links to groups, organizations and applications specific to know-how discovery, harvesting and management, data and text mining, as well as vendors/suppliers of related services.

Seven Legal Technology Trends for 2007: Widening the Digital Divide in Law Practice

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:34:41 -0800

Dennis Kennedy contends that by the end of 2007, there will be a clearly distinguishable digital divide between technology-forward and technology-backward firms. He suggests seven trends that should be on the agendas of law firm technology committees.

Search at the Foundation of the Enterprise

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:02:15 -0800

John Alber reviews and details the successful application of a Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing system to effectively and comprehensively search a law firm's continually expanding electronic document repository.

Free Tools and Applications For More Efficient Online Interaction

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:58:09 -0800

Many lawyers understand the importance of networking, but running a law practice takes time and no one ever seems to have enough of it. This factor is one of the main reasons lawyers offer as an excuse to avoid online networking, but Nicole Black proposes how choosing even a few efficient applications from the range of free tools available can streamline and accelerate this marketing process.

The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:44:10 -0800

Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for academic purposes.

Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway

Tue, 26 May 2009 20:37:37 -0800

Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley's implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm.

Proactive Leadership & The Role of Information: Identifying Strategic Networks of Information

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:59:54 -0800

Networking is supposed to be essential to successful leaders. But what is the importance of networking conceptually? People are only one form of this vital leadership resource. Stuart Basefksy explains how would one go about developing expanded networks of information and sources.

Ahead of the Curve: In 2009, Your Lawyers Are Your Best Knowledge Management Resource

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:59:45 -0800

Gretta Rusanow outlines her recommendations on why this year presents an excellent opportunity to work on those long-desired collections of models, best practice documents, sample clauses and know how files.

Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:12:57 -0800

Heather Colman explains how wikis were an ideal KM solution for her law firm. Quick and easy to set up, requiring little IT support, wikis support central data repositories and provide features including search capabilities, email, RSS, and also allow users to create a taxonomy of subject tags to classify information.

Conrad Jacoby's E-Discovery Update: Attorneys, Experts, and E-Discovery Competence

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:07:54 -0800

Conrad J. Jacoby focuses on two recent cases that emphasize the credibility problems counsel can face in the context of e-discovery - and suggest that outside assistance may be the only way for some counsel to demonstrate that these materials are being managed in a competent and trustworthy way.