The new knowledge

Law firms produce and trade in information. Some for, some of it – a rapidly increasing amount – is not. That’s why the knowledge function is at the very heart of legal, and why it can also lead firms into a
more process-led, client-connected world – because it sees the information that connects and underlies the business of law. And so, this month we interview Lucy Dillon, KM chief at BLP, about project management, knowledge sharing, matter management, workflow, innovation, process management and why knowledge will always have enormous value in legal.

We also have a sweeping feature article interviewing KM leaders from Addleshaw Goddard, Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, Pinsent Masons, Reed Smith, Simmons & Simmons and White & Case.

WHERE KNOWLEDGE GOES NEXT

Project management, knowledge sharing, matter management, workflow, innovation, process management and much more – this is the world of tomorrow’s knowledge leader (just don’t mention the ‘management’ word). Rupert White talks about creating more valuable internal and external conversations with Lucy Dillon, head of KM at Berwin Leighton Paisner

KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU

What are knowledge people doing to help drive tomorrow’s global legal expansion? How are they using project
management and collaboration tools to join up increasingly distributed businesses? Joanna Goodman opens her
hyperlinked, online contact book, gets a database snapshot of the best people to talk to in legal KM and uses new media to bring their words to life.

TOWARDS A COLLABORATIVE FUTURE

Rob Martin, director of federated search and KM strategy at Solcara outlines what KM is, what it could be, and how
to achieve an effective legal knowledge solution.