excited utterances Joins Forces with Law Librarian News
Dear excited utterances readers:
There's been a lot going on behind the scenes at excited utterances in recent months, and I'm now ready to raise the curtain on a very exciting joint venture, complete with a brand new subscription-based newsletter to be called:
"Law Librarian News & excited utterances"
A long title, I know!
Law Librarians News (LLN) is the publication of record for independent news, views, links and current legal library product information, serving a global community of legal librarians. excited utterances is the oldest and most respected legal KM blog in the world.
Pairing my award-winning KM blog with editor Sean Hocking's acclaimed Law Librarian News, the semi-monthly "Law Librarian News & excited utterances" will deliver direct-to-desktop news-you-can-use -- by, for and about the global legal information and knowledge management market.While excited utterances will continue to deliver the same reliable online coverage of legal KM that its readers have come to rely upon, our new combined publication creates the perfect vehicle for legal knowledge managers and law librarians who want to understand the machinations of the current market. Sean and I are looking forward to bringing our publication to a wider audience.
All subscribers will receive a PDF delivered to his or her e-mail inbox twice every month. Subscribers also gain "members only" access to all back issues of Law Librarians News, as well as the entire 4-year archive of excited utterances (both via the LLN members section at practicesource.com.
Thank you so much for all your comments, e-mails and suggestions over the years.
If you have any legal KM news, events, job postings, articles, papers, product news, etc., e-mail me.
The first combined issue of LLN & eu contains these legal knowledge management items:
Articles Attorney as Knowledge Worker Richard Susskind’s New Evolution of Legal Service Model Law Partner Knocks Richard Susskind, Law Tech Guru E-Learning and KM at Hugh James Solicitors
Case Studies Allen & Overy Uses Blogs, Wikis and All Sorts of Collaborative KM Tools
Surveys Practice Management Teams (including KM Teams) in UK Law Firms: the Numbers Speak For Themselves!
Books/Journals The Legal Business Guide to Law Firm ManagementConferences & EventsSociety of Computers & Law KM Group Announce its 2006 Programme
Jobs Part Time Knowledge Management Advisor Business Department Knowledge Management Attorney
Bill Gates announced yesterday at Microsoft's annual CEO Summit, their first product targeted towards knowledge management, more precisely centered on expertise location called Knowledge Network, which will be a part of SharePoint 2007. There's a brief blurb about it here on a ZDnet page from the UK.
I've (Tom) already got it on good authority that there's an API developers will be able to tap into to extend the functionality of this tool (which predominately mines e-mails and contacts to help determine expertise in certain subject matter).
Knowledge Network technology looks through workers' email and other data and then automatically generates working profiles of expertise. The software also takes a page from social networking sites in the way that workers get matched up with in-house experts. The software can see if the information seeker and expert have any worker friends in common who might be able to make an introduction. Workers can also choose whether they want to be open to being contacted directly.
Law KM Conference -- 20% Discount to excited utterances readers Integrating Information & Knowledge Management Architectures in the Legal Profession: Strategies for Integrating Your Firm’s Organizational, Technical & Information Resources to Leverage or Create Complimentary Information & Knowledge Management Architectures June 13-14, 2006 / Toronto, Ontario
As an excited utterances fan, you will receive a 20% discount. Just e-mail your contact details to me (include your name, title, firm, address, zip, phone & fax).
Based on continued feedback from past attendees, Ark Group USA and Managing Partner Magazine have developed a two-day KM conference set in Toronto on June 13-14, 2006. Researched with and developed for those involved in knowledge and information resource management, this two-day conference is an ideal opportunity to learn how some of today’s leading Canadian law firms are integrating their organizational, technical and information resources to more effectively leverage collective intelligence and begin to develop a true “knowledge management architecture” -- improving the efficiency and effectiveness of individual and collaborative knowledge-sharing activities.
Is information management just politically correct KM? The disciplines of Information Management and Knowledge Management have different roots and typically are managed differently within organizations. Yet these two disciplines seem to be juxtapositioned, if not complimentary in theory. In many organizations, these two areas are in conflict - not harmony. Information management seems to be gathering more attention in law firms - with or without existing KM programs. Should KM champions be concerned about the emergence of IM? Is IM just disciplined data mining, or is it generating context in ways that overlap with traditional KM goals? These are just a few of the questions we plan to answer in the course of this two-day program.
Once again, Ark plans to maintain a smaller, more manageable-sized group for this event and will likely cut-off registration numbers at about 40 delegates (not including speakers). The US audience will have a keen interest in hearing from their Canadian counterparts, so expect this program to meet capacity very quickly.
New KM Salary Benchmark First Counsel, a leading UK law firm recruiter, commissioned Acritas Research to conduct a salary benchmarking survey of law firm business support roles. The survey focuses on senior business support professionals across a broad range of management disciplines, including knowledge management and the professional support lawyer role.
Salary mean averages for each role (and ranges)
Director/Head of Know-how/Knowledge Management £106,300 or $US197,420
(£68,000-152,000) or US$126,290 - US$282,294
PSL [7 yrs+ from year of qualification]
Total £78,900 (£47,000-135,000)
London All £85,900 (£66,000-135,000)
London 200+ fee-earners (excluding US) £83,500 (£62,000-120,000)
PSL [5-6 yrs+] Total £66,800 (£43,000-120,000)
PSL [3-4 yrs+] Total £47,600 (£34,000-70,000)
If you would like to see the results of this survey, contact Tim Skipper.
KM 101: The Three Stages of Knowledge Management
On April 27th, ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) hosted a discussion entitled KM 101: the Three Stages of Knowledge Management. Led by John Szekeres (Clearly Gottlieb), Catherine Monte (Fox Rothschild) and Lisa Kellar (Hunton & Williams), the presenters provided an overview of the three stages in the KM Systems Maturity Model -- ideal for law firms just beginning a KM program
To view the live meeting recording of this event, you'll need to be an ILTA member, but free PowerPoint slides of the discussion are available here. In addition, to learn more about ILTA's new KM peer group and its mission, click here.
