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Thursday, February 03, 2005

Legal Industry KM White Papers

KM World published a series of white papers in Aug. 2004 on the Legal Industry. Here's the link.

The second article, Matter-Centric Management: Letting Lawyers Work the Way They Want to Work, touches on an interesting trend - the technological convergence of content & communication. That is, regardless of the software or format, law firms are moving towards managing these knowledge assets (for example, email & documents, among others) together, with a classification structure based around the work flow (ie. Matters), rather than technology or software.