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"Basic Knowledge Management for Lawyers"

This post was written by Sam Glover: "'Knowledge management' means getting what your business knows out of people's heads and into easily-accessible storage. It is a way of giving new lawyers and staff easy access to resources and instructions so they aren't wasting time trying to track down answers.

So many lawyers approach each new client or project as if it was all-new, reinventing the wheel each time. That is just an inefficient, ineffective waste. With good knowledge management in place, you should never have to do the same thing twice, which means happier clients and a healthier bottom line.

You can hire knowledge management consultants and buy expensive knowledge management software, but you can do basic knowledge management simply by developing good working habits and adopting a few simple--and free--tools..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 8 November 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).