Risk, value, strategy, innovation, knowledge and the legal profession.
Sunday’s Washington Post offered a thought provoking post-mortem on Howrey’s demise: Why Howrey could not hold it together.
It is hard not to respect Howrey for their continuous pursuit of innovation. (They also pulled off one of those amazing “only in DC” coups by having a Pennsylvania Avenue address even though they were in…
Maximizing the value of library staff activities can be achieved by enhancing the ability of information professionals to be put to their “highest and best use” in support of client related activities. One key strategy for liberating knowledge professionals to support client work is reducing the volume of administrative work which they must perform or oversee.…
By Cynthia Sullivan
Note: Guest blogger Cindy Sullivan was previously VP of the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology Library at Fidelity Investments in Boston, Ma. Cindy has more than 25 years experience managing libraries in a global financial services organization, including remote library organizations. Cindy’s particular expertise has been focused on the strategic use of technology…
Mobile Apps for Law is brought to us by former big firm library director Arlene Eis, founder of InfoSources Publishing,
Earlier today I was engaged in a discussion with several of my global colleagues about the hypothetical “lawyer of the future.” We all agreed that portable and personalized app libraries will be a feature of this future,…
Yesterday I co-presented the Keynote “debate” at the Ark Conference on Best Practices & Managenent Strategies for Law Firm Libraries and Information Centers. The program was moderated by Marsha Pront, Librarian and Senior Consultant from Integrated Management Services. My debate partner Ron Friedmann who blogs at Prisim Legal and is a VP at
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In talking to large and midsize law firm colleagues, I am somewhat amazed at the level of decentralization that is supported and sometimes mandated by the larger firm organization.
There are obvious benefits in having local staff available for “high touch” projects and to provide special expertise in supporting practice and jurisdictional research. But the…
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