Why KM Matters. With Soundtrack.
Here at "Adam Smith, Esq." I’ve written about Knowledge Management a fair amount, since it’s my belief that knowledge is what law firms sell. But despite the (I believe) inarguable centrality of KM to...
View ArticleLessons From Toyota
Have you ever considered a completely different approach to strategic planning for your firm? An approach kind of like Toyota’s? Let me explain. There are traditional and classic strategic plans, which...
View ArticlePractical Law Company Crosses the Pond
Last week I had a chance to catch up with Jeroen Plink, the CEO for the US operations of Practical Law Company. Jeroen has been with PLC for over 6 years and, in a previous life, worked as an attorney...
View ArticleLegal OnRamp Release 2.0
I’ve written previously about Legal OnRamp, but some new developments call for an update. What’s new? Â Primarily, the ability of individual law firms to feature their own selected areas of expertise....
View ArticleOnline Panel on Hosted Lit Support: You’re Invited
This coming Tuesday, November 16, at 2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Pacific, I will be moderating an hour-long “virtual panel” (think CNN or MSNBC on your desktop, with each of the panelists and yours truly...
View Article“Software Is Eating the World”
A couple of weeks ago, Marc Andreessen wrote in The Wall Street Journal a provocative piece called “Why Software is Eating the World.” Among the observations he makes are: My own theory is that we are...
View ArticleThree E-Discovery Panels at LegalTech/NY Moderated by Yours Truly
If you’ll be attending LegalTech here in New York at the end of this month, this is your chance to stop by and introduce yourself—and even to spend a couple of hours learning all about e-discovery....
View ArticleCompetence without comprehension
June 23 was the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, and I was delinquent not to have written about him closer to the date, but I was searching (excuses, excuses) for the appropriate BigLaw hook. Google took...
View Article“ReInvent Law:” Real or Memorex?
For years, there was a prominent, and ultimately iconic, billboard in Times Square advertising the Memorex brand of recording tape, displaying an image of a stoner being blasted back in his chair by...
View ArticleChange is neither good nor bad: It is
With this, his inaugural column, it is my great pleasure to introduce to our readers and clients Doug Caddell, who is formally joining Adam Smith, Esq. as a senior advisor (see the About Us page for...
View Article“Agile Working” and Office Design
Having spent last week in London, where every firm worthy of its PR news feed has at least mentioned “agile working,” it’s worth spending a few moments reflecting on what’s behind that shorthand. The...
View ArticleCompetence without comprehension
June 23 was the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, and I was delinquent not to have written about him closer to the date, but I was searching (excuses, excuses) for the appropriate BigLaw hook. Google took...
View Article“ReInvent Law:” Real or Memorex?
For years, there was a prominent, and ultimately iconic, billboard in Times Square advertising the Memorex brand of recording tape, displaying an image of a stoner being blasted back in his chair by...
View ArticleChange is neither good nor bad: It is
With this, his inaugural column, it is my great pleasure to introduce to our readers and clients Doug Caddell, who is formally joining Adam Smith, Esq. as a senior advisor (see the About Us page for...
View Article“Agile Working” and Office Design
Having spent last week in London, where every firm worthy of its PR news feed has at least mentioned “agile working,” it’s worth spending a few moments reflecting on what’s behind that shorthand. The...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: What Associates Need to Know
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the...
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