Law Legal Profession

Knowledge Management in Law Firms: Expertise in Action

Edited by Luis Felipe Mohando · Silke Gotschalk · Martin Schulz · Gerard Tanja
Globe Law and Business November 2016

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ISBN-13
9781911078135
Publisher
Globe Law and Business
Publication
November 2016
Format
Hardback , 185 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only
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Knowledge has always been at the heart of the legal profession. This is because an essential component of practising law involves applying knowledge and expertise to solve clients' legal problems. In the rapidly changing contemporary legal world, where cases, transactions and legal issues become increasingly more complex and globalised, managing the firm’s knowledge and expertise becomes crucial for finding innovative solutions to legal problems, serving clients effectively, reducing risks and delivering profitability to the firm.

 

In this timely book produced in association with the International Bar Association, more than a dozen renowned knowledge management professionals provide their expert insights on all aspects of managing knowledge in a law firm. Topics covered include: building the business case for a knowledge management plan; implementing an agreed strategy; organising the knowledge management function; implementing enterprise search technology; and fostering the contribution of lawyers to their clients’ perspective on learning and quality.

 

The wide range of topics covered, coupled with the depth of the authors’ experience in real-life legal knowledge management, make this book an invaluable reference work for law firms looking to shape their knowledge management function, both in smaller firms where know-how sharing is a limiting factor for expansion and in larger firms interested in developing their knowledge management function further. For that reason, the book should be of interest to anyone looking for an insight into legal knowledge management, including law firm partners, knowledge management professionals and consultants, professional support lawyers and fee earners.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The business case for innovative KM in law firms – getting partners behind KM projects
  3. Creating and implementing a KM strategy for a law firm
  4. Implementing KM strategy in practice
  5. Governing knowledge assets in a law firm
  6. The PSL career and perspective on KM
  7. Managing content: structured taxonomy, informal tagging, both?
  8. Implementing enterprise search in a law firm
  9. KM, leadership and human resources
  10. Getting lawyers to contribute content to KM systems and then to use KM resources
  11. KM and project management
  12. Client-facing KM and business development and marketing
  13. KM in M&A transactions
  14. Social technology driven business models in law firms
  15. Contrasting KM in management consulting and law firms
  16. Conclusion
  17. Librarians and collaboration
  18. Organising KM in a law firm – how do we structure it?

About the Author

Consulting editors: Luis Felipe Mohando, Silke Gotschalk, Martin Schulz and Gerard Tanja

Consulting editor  
German Graduate School of Management and Law Martin Schulz
Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbh Silke Gottschalk
SORAINEN Luis Felipe Mohando
Venturis Consulting Group Gerard Tanja
Contributing firm Author(s)
Bär & Karrer AG Raffael Buchi
Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd Jonna Vainikainen
Charles Taylor plc Allie Lustigman
City University of London Emily Allbon
CMS Hasche Sigle Martina Kuth
Informationland Boyd Hendriks
Janders Dean Stephanie Abbott
Licensed Attorney Porcia Newell
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Tara Pichardo Angadi
Rhem & Associates Inc Anthony J Rhem


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