{"id":1223,"date":"2014-10-14T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T08:40:57","slug":"the-future-for-legal-kim-an-outsidein-perspective-december-9th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"The future for Legal KIM: An Outside\/In perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long admired the work of Martin White <\/a>on Information Governance, Intranets and Search and as Chairman of the Online Conference that used to be a must attend event at Olympia in December.\u00a0 I fondly recall a Hilton Hotel, Heathrow T4 meeting at the end of the 90’s between the two of us and Gerry McGovern <\/a>in which we hammered out the components of an Intranet checklist. And the horror at finding the parking bill was nearly as expensive as a tank of petrol.<\/p>\n

We go back a long way, have worked on a number of assignments together and I once gave the Keynote Speech for Intranet Focus at the inaugural Russian Intranet Forum in Moscow where David Gurteen<\/a> ran his first Russian Knowledge Cafe.<\/p>\n

Martin and I meet regularly.\u00a0 It’s one of the nicer aspects of working in alliance that you get to share ideas (within the bounds of confidentiality) with people you choose rather than those an organisation chooses for you.\u00a0 In the Summer we met a couple of times to review experiences in Legal Knowledge & Information Management. I’d just given the Keynote speech at KM Legal and written a blog post <\/a>while Martin was in the midst of a new assignment writing a digital workplace strategy for a prominent law firm.<\/p>\n

Legal is changing, is KIM ready?<\/h2>\n

Martin too had noticed changes in the way law firms were working. As we compared\u00a0notes\u00a0we became aware\u00a0that\u00a0some of the knowledge management, information management and project management approaches that we had been using for many years\u00a0might be unfamiliar to law firms. We decided to validate our conclusions\u00a0by talking\u00a0to some of our contacts in law firms and among the comments we noted were:<\/p>\n