Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dialexica LawRex Profile

Just submitted this profile to the LawRex site…does it work for you? Legal Data Services | Dialexica helps lawyers adopt Agile principles, practices and processes by leveraging collective intelligence, team dynamics and project management techniques and methodologies. Dialexica provides a … Continue reading

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Agile Teams, Litigation Ecosystems and Litigation Risk

Came across this wonderful statement by VersionOne of the difference between PMI-style project management and Agile. And, it gives us a great chance to introduce the Dialexica “Litigation Ecosystem Framework.” The “Litigation Ecosystem Framework,” is the way we describe the … Continue reading

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Lawyer as Leader

“Leadership” is the buzzword of the decade, but what does it mean in the context of a law firm? How does a lawyer become a leader and how do leaders who are already at the top of the stack become … Continue reading

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Don’t be an Agile Tourist

In drafting slides for my first foray into hard-core Agile conversation (hopefully, a “sermon to the choir”), I am mindful that because my gig is on October 21, I will have to deal with not an inconsequential amount of conference … Continue reading

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Review: Collaborative Agile Contracts by Thorup and Jensen

Definitely an article that should be read by every lawyer seeking to write collaborative, Agile-supportive contracts. I’ll be talking about the work of Thorup, Jensen and the rest of the crew at Best Brains for a long time. Here are … Continue reading

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EDRM Critique : From Hand-off to Collaborative Culture

This is the beginning of, and an index to, a series of public critiques of the Socha Gelbman The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). While it takes a bit of negative energy to describe what is wrong with the EDRM, … Continue reading

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A Giant Step in the Right Direction

SharedBook Contact: Caroline Vanderlip cvanderlip@sharedbook.com (646)442-8845 SHAREDBOOK LAUNCHES SERVICE TO ENHANCE OPEN LEGISLATION AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT SharedBook Offers Law and Policy Makers Tools to Provide More Open Review and Debate Launches At O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Summit NEW YORK – September … Continue reading

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Labor Day : What “EDD lawyers” won’t tell you

Great quote that sums it up from Ride The Lightning Blog: I also agree with George [Socha] and Tom [Gelbman] that the pretended “deep EDD expertise” that many law firms claim is largely bogus. There are far more who “talk … Continue reading

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Shu Ha Ri, The Mastery Pattern, Apprenticeship

Great introductory article by Dan Mezick on the concept of doing something by rote until you can do it by design. Oh, it goes by so many names! This is how lawyers are going to inspect, adapt and adopt Agile: … Continue reading

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