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Challenges of (Combined) KM and Library Services in a Law Firm
I am currently struggling with a challenge (but it is a good one).
The challenge is in having to combine Knowledge Management duties with Library Services duties in a law firm setting. In many (if not most) firms, the positions are split and separate. For now, I am (in theory) divided 50% between each function. [...]
The Role of Law Firm Culture in Knowledge Management
My goal was to post this prior to Simon Fodden’s “Canada Day” Friday Filip below. Unfortunately, the screed that follows has nothing to do with colorful flags or the Maple Leaf Rag (however, to see colorful covers of ragtime sheet music, see my recent updates at Classic Ragtime Piano).
In a recent speech I gave in [...]
Combating Information Overload
Information overload remains a serious issue for many (information) professionals. At a recent knowledge management (KM) conference in New York sponsored by WestKM and Recommind, I presented a paper on the topic of information overload. I discussed three main aspects:
1) The History of Information Overload
2) The Negative Impact of Information Overload
3) KM Tips and Techniques [...]
Cultivating a Knowledge Sharing Culture
Discussion highlights – Ark conference on KM, Toronto June 14, 2006
Speakers:
Peter Nagy, Director of KM, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Eugene Cipparone, Director, KM, Goodmans LLP
Kelly Alayne Johnson, Legal Assistant, McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Peter Nagy:
Organizational structures (from Max Boisot):
- Market
- Clan
- Fief
- Bureaucracy
Where do law firms fit into this paradigm?
Simon Chester disagrees with this categorization. He prefers [...]
Legal Research in a Digital World
I just finished writing a paper for the Computer Aided Legal Instruction Conference (CALI) in June, called “Research in a Digital World -or- Personal Knowledge Management for Legal Researchers“. From the executive summary:
The increasing volume of digital information with which researchers work is making the task of finding, capturing, organizing and eventually collaborating [...]
IT and Lawyers — Can’t We All Get Along?
With all of the discussion earlier about II and Lawyers; I was half expecting to hear someone use the phrase … “can’t we all get along?” I deliberated on whether to enter this debate; but, after having gathered my thoughts here goes…
First, to think that this is a problem of IT and lawyers is to look at this through too narrow a lens. Indeed, there is discussion throughout management and IT literature that is looking at the IT-Business problem. What follows here is one person’s view of the problem and some suggestions for dealing with it.
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CLIC
Simon (C’s) recent posting recalling the work of the Canadian Law Information Council (CLIC) set me thinking. None of the CLIC material is now online, I think, so I searched through the UVic law library catalogue. The work of CLIC on behalf of Canadian law and legal information and technology was truly astounding. It [...]
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A Proposal for a free web-based Canadian legal encylopedia
One of the recommendations I made in my LLM thesis entitled Access to Law-Related Information in Canada in the Digital Age was a proposal to implement Professor Friedland’s vision from the mid 1970’s for a Canadian law-related encyclopedia that would answer real-life legal questions. In his 1975 study entitled Access to the Law, Professor Friedland [...]
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What is to be tagged?
I’ve circled back to take another look at Google Base because of a weblog post by Rashmi Sinha, “The blooming of information architecture at Google: A close look at facets, tags & categories in GoogleBase.”
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Current Awareness Techniques for Legal Researchers
A question arose today among colleagues how best to stay “current” with law-related information without becoming overwhelmed.
Certainly, technology has a role to play but I also suspect there is no “one size fits all” solution for every person. For example, I find my information-seeking habits and needs now (as an academic law librarian) are quite [...]
Knowledge Management Economics & Realization Rates
I’ve been having some fun recently over at the VLLB.
Last Monday I posted ‘Legal KM Economics & Realization Rates (Some Questions…)‘. Joy London of Excited Utterances was nice enough to pick it up and re-publish my post. Then the responses started coming in, and boy did they come in!
First up, David [...]
Situational Tags
Yikes, outed by Connie as a guest blogger!
Now that my cover’s blown, I’m going to cross-post something that I’ve just put on Out Of The Jungle, because it relates to Slaw and, unsurprisingly, to the kind of things we talk about here.
Situational Tags
I was going to post only once a day, but I’m afraid [...]
The Web of Law
Law Professor Thomas Smith (University of San Diego School of Law) has finished a law review citation study covering 385,000 law review articles, notes, comments, etc that appear in 726 law reviews and journals. The results are probably not too surprising to many of you. 43% of the articles have never never been [...]
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Student approach to legal research
Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse: A Law Student’s Perspective on Developing Legal Information Literacy
By Pamela Seguin
Like many eager, wide-eyed students before me, I entered law school with the misguided notion that the purpose of a law degree was to learn ‘The Law’. Now, looking back with the hindsight sharpened by a $40 000 [...]
Taxonomy Letters
What follows is an exchange of emails (some excerpted) that preceded the launching of Slaw. I asked the group of core contributors about taxonomy — coming from “blogging,” I felt the need for categories. You can see how vexed the matter of taxonomy is and how interesting the discussion was getting to be, when, too [...]
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