Do Wikis Belong in Law Firms?
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Do Wikis Belong in Law Firms?by Connie Crosby
for torontowikituesdays.comFebruary 12, 2008
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Law firms tend to be...
risk averse
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Law firms tend to be...
conservative when implementing new technologies
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Law firms tend to be...
entrenched in Microsoft Office
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Law firms tend to be...
very private with their new tech projects
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“I remain contrarian and cynical...”
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“...Aren’t all major law firms with mature document management systems (DMSs) ‘wikified’ to the max already? If everyone in the firm has online access to the ‘Smith file’ or the ‘Jones file’ and can edit documents, view calendars or other lists of information, access research memos, and post comments, isn’t this ‘wiki’ personified?”
- Ted Tjaden, SLAW.ca, Feb. 12/08
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But are lawyers & firms all the same?
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anecdotal evidence of wiki use
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Mid-size Canadian firm
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Mid-size Canadian firm:
“I have had quite a bit of success introducing wikis here”
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Mid-size Canadian firm:
“we are now piloting a wiki style platform”
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Mid-size Canadian firm:
“will replace our intranet and the current model of centralized publishing through Dream Weaver”
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Large U.S. firm
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Large U.S. firm:
wiki platform added to existing intranet system
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Large U.S. firm:
“we have decided not to have one central wiki”
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Large U.S. firm:
“’granularity’ is our mantra”
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Large U.S. firm:
51 page database moved to 255 wiki pages with subpages
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Small U.S. boutique firm
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Small U.S. boutique firm
Rosen Law - specializes in divorce in Raleighhttp://www.rosen.com
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Rosen Law:
Replacing Lotus Notes with PBWiki
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Rosen Law
wiki will contain “everything from contracts to contacts”
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Rosen Law:
“will start moving case files to it next year”
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Rosen Law:
from $25,000 per year for Lotus Notes
to $600 per year for PBWiki
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Critical Success Factors
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according to Doug Corneliusof Goodwin Procter LLP
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“there needs to be a reason to go to the wiki site”
- information needs to be handled better here than elsewhere
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“you need more than one person dedicated to using it as the communication/collaboration tool.”
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Avoid the “empty wiki syndrome.” -
“An empty wiki is like an empty nightclub.”
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Other legal wikis
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Wex: U.S. law dictionary and encyclopedia(the “open law” movement was started at Cornell)
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the dictionary
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dictionary entry
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encyclopedia entry
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JurisPedia - law encyclopedia for multiple countries
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entry listings
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encyclopedia entry
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Resourceshttp://crosby.pbwiki.com
KM Space by Doug Corneliushttp://kmspace.blogspot.com
The Law Firm Intranet by Nina Platthttp://lawfirmintranet.com
Wikis for the Legal Professionby Dennis Kennedy and Tom MighellLaw Practice Today, February 2007http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/slc02071.shtml
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Legal Wikispodcast with co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogiwith guests Martin Farley, Tom Mighell, and Daniel N. LewisLawyer2Lawyer, May 10, 2007http://urltea.com/2oxm
Wikis in Law Firms - An Alternative View?by Ted Tjaden (with comments)SLAW.ca, February 12, 2008http://urltea.com/2oww
Tech to Boost Teamworkby Evelyn NussenbaumPBWiki, February 2008http://pbwiki.com/content/FortuneSmallBusiness