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Ron Friedmann
Prism Legal Consulting, Inc.
ron@prismlegal.com
703.527.2381
Agenda
Business context
Impact of technology
Content delivery
Content creation
Opportunities
Ron’s Background
Legal technology consultant (4 years)
CIO, Mintz Levin (1)
Practice support, Wilmer (8)
Legal software marketing
Jnana – interactive legal advisory systems (3)
iLumin – online signing dot-com (0.5)
Strategy consulting, Bain & Co (3)
Econometrician, Data Resources, Inc. (4)
Education
JD, NYU (1986)
BA, Economics, Oberlin College (1979)
Business Context
Publisher Penetration in Law Firms
Content Provider Value Added
Create
Primary
• Plain
• Enhanced (e.g., compilations, headnotes)
Secondary, interpretive, or analytic
• Editors
• External authorities
Deliver
Print, search, e-mail, RSS
Moving Beyond Content
Content market is limited
Publishers expand penetration via organic
growth, acquisition, partnership
Thomson
• Elite, Hildebrandt, Expert Ease, Hubbard One,
ProLaw, LiveNote, West KM, Monitor
Lexis-Nexis
• Applied Discovery, Interface, Time Matters, Datops,
HotDocs, Martindale-Hubbell, Hosting, NetDocs
Wolters Kluwer
• Summation, TyMetrix
Publisher Penetration by Task
100% Save
Write
% of Time by Task
Low penetration
Process
Research
High penetration
0 Identify
Law Practice
Source: Concept Overview
Law Business
Information Intensive Aspects Only
(Excludes Operations)
Matter intake
Marketing (including web sites)
Business development
Competitive intelligence
Financial accounting
HR management
Planning
Practice group management
Publisher Penetration by Task
100%
Not Info
% of Time by Task
Intensive
Low penetration
Info
Intensive Some penetration
0
Law Business
Source: Concept Overview
Business Context Conclusions
Content penetration inherently
limited – hence expansion
Content publishing must evolve
Cross-selling and integration?
Technology
Business
Content Delivery
Impact of New Technology
Technology Affecting Delivery
Portals
Taxonomies
Search
RSS
Mobility
New Delivery Paradigm
Past: visit many sources for content
Present: content delivered to users
In more places
Via multiple formats
Firm # Blogs
Sheppard Mullin 9
Womble Carlyle 8
Davis Wright 4
Fox Rothschild 3
Holland & Hart 2
Bracewell Giuliani 1
K&L Gates 1
Porter Wright 1
Sutherland Asbill 1
Total 30
Large Firm RSS Feeds (# feeds)