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David Eriksson, Systems Development Lawyer, LLM and MSc
Digital law a law firm perspective on informationretrieval
19 november 2008
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Digital law a law firm perspective on information retrieval-abstract Information Technology has changed the way lawyers retrieve information. What has been significant in legal
IR in the past, what is significant at present and what can we expect in the future?
The corporate world lags many years behind the online consumer industry in terms of using and reusing digitalinformation creatively. However, things are starting to change.
How are law firms affected by trends such as digitalisation of legal information, commodisation, e-mattermanagement, integration of systems, convergence, globalisation and rise of mega firms, traceability of lawerslegal research and behaviours, social networking, collaboration tools, enterprise search and information layers,categorisation, konceptualistation, a higher overall tempo and client demand?
Large law firms have millions of documents and numerous databases that help to store the intellectual capital of the firms. How does information retrieval work within the firms most important information asset the firmitself?
What challenges and opportunities are involved for law firms when it comes to their owninformation and whatdemands do they place on public and private organisations that provide legal information?
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Agenda
About Mannheimer Swartling
Climbing the value chain
Good enough automisation
Legal IR then, now and future
The law firm as an information provider
Collaboration tools
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Law firm IR challenges
External IR
InternalIR
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Our firm
Leading full-service firm in the Nordic region
420 lawyers (>660 employees). Off ices in:
Sweden: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malm, Helsingborg Germany: Frankfurt, Berlin Belgium: Brussels Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg China: Hong Kong, Shanghai US: New York
Independent, executing regional and international deals seamlessly, through ourown offices and by working in integrated teams with lawyers in a unique network of other leading firms.
Origins go back to 1877. Consistently strengthening our position as leading in key areas of the Nordic
M&A market. Advises, year after year, on significantly more transactions than any other Nordic
firm 175 transaction mandates, with a total deal value >EUR 16 billion (2007).
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Practice areas and industry sector groups
Practice areas
Banking and finance Corporate Commercial Corporate Taxation Dispute Resolution Employment and Pensions Environment EU and Competition Funds and Investments Insolvency Insurance Intellectual Property IT, Telecoms and Technology
Maritime and Transport Mergers and Acquisitions Public Procurement Real Es ta te Secur it ies
Industry sector groups
Energy Financial Institutions Forest and Paper Health Care an Life Sciences Indust rial Infrastructure IT, Telecommunications and
Technology Media and Entertainment Private Equity Real Es tate
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Awards
Swedens best commercial law firmVeckans Affrer (Swedens best consultants), 2006 and 2008
Clients favourite law firmLegally Yours (Klientbarometern), 2005, 2006 and 2007
Law Firm of the Year: Northern EuropePLC Which Lawyer, 2007
Law Firm of the Year, SwedenWhos Who Legal Awards, 2006, 2007 and 2008
Swedish Law Firm of the YearIFLR; International Financial Law Review, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008
Ranked in seventh place amongst the worlds law firms in relation tointernational arbitrationGlobal Arbitration Review, 2007
Most popular law firm among Swedish law studentsUniversum (Juristbarometern), 2005, 2006 and 2007
Best in the business 2007, legal advisors categoryUniversum Awards, 2005, 2006 and 2007
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Information needs to climb the value chain
V a l u e
Unstructured
Semi structured
Structred
M e t
h o d s
AccessiblityOpennessSharingClassification andcategorisation toolsConceptualisationSocial networking / KM / Web 2.0Ontologies, folksonomies,dictionaries, taxonomies,linguisticsxml, semantic webEnterprise search/Informationaccess platforms
(No ranking order)
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Good enough automatic legal sorter and conceptualiserSearch words and Concepts
Doctrine / Law litterature
Legislation
Prepatory work
Case law
Legal texts
Good enough sorted and conceptualised
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Legal IR then, now and future
Time
Personalisation
Situation adaption
Knowledge Sharing
Accessibility
Automation
Tracebility and behaviouranalysis
Higher in value chain
Faster response time
Information integration
Availability
Digitalisation
GlobalisationInformation size
More of
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Then
It took longer to find information
More time find information
Expensive information per entity
The law developed slower
Less specialisation
No IT
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Now
We need more how. Not just what.
Information overload
Information more available but accessible?
Who am I, and in what situation am I in?
Learning from others
Search a commodity
Lack of value added services in organisation of information
IT still quaint
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Future
Automisation
Higher up in the value chain
Tracebility
Push instead of pull
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Things that need to change
All legal information producers, both authorities, private informationproviders and law firms must develop their IR techniques andsystems
Not just creating legislation, case law, prepartory work and lawbooks/texts for people but also for machines and IR systems
Law firms need access to all case law/judgements
Information aggregators need access to all judgements in a wellstructured format
Stop writing cases like it was the 19th century
Why not paragraphs like in EC case law?!
Ontologies, dictionaries, metadata, fuzzy logic
Law literatureonline Temporary books
Open systems / Integration (compare web services, web mash-ups)
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IT/IR systems as automatic legal researchers
Risks?
Risks of the present state
Climbing the value chain. Develop our business.
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The law firm as an information provider
Law firms as information providers
we are an information customer to ourself
Information structure
Information retrieval
Best practice / Know what / Know how
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Know what, how and who in a business law firm
What? Knowledge about the law Knowledge about the clients and their business Knowledge through IR
Law books and external legal databases, Internaldocument databases, external business informationdatabases
How? Tacit and explicit Procedures and Workflows Learning by doing, asking collegues
Who? Who is good at what
What contracts have X written who is good at Y type of law?
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Know What
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Know Who
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Know How
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Law firm collaboration (IR) tools
Knowledge banks
Document management systems
External information databases
Portals
Social software / Collaboration tools (eg wikis, blogs)
Enterprise search / Information access platforms
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The corporate world ten years behind
Compare law firms with the online advertising industry
Push instead of pull
Situation based IR
Personalisations, roll based
Basic search functions
More like this
Did you mean?
People that downloaded this documents alsodownloaded
Amazon, Gmail, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter
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Dynamic Navigation: Clusters and Faceted Metadata
Refine By Source
Refine By DynamicTaxonomies
Refine By Metadata orStatic Taxonomy
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Personalization: Alerts
Create PersonalAlerts
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Spotlight High Value Content
Spotlight High Value Results
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Enterprise Mash-ups
HR System
Website Active Directory
HR System
CRM
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Tuning Observeand Adapt
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Social Tagging: Rating
User s canr a t e s e a r c h
r e s u l t s
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SOCIAL TAGGING: ANNOTATIONS
User s can en r i ch s ea rchr e s u lt s b y a n n o t a t i n g
e x i s t i n g r e su l t s w i t h t h e i r o w n t h o u g ht s a n d
c o m m e n t a r y.
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External databases integrated with internal-Example Lexis Search Advantage with Interwoven Universal Search
Search Advantageoffers auto-profiling of documents.
"research preview"
It can be matched to a firm's taxonomy or a Lexis taxonomy.
For transactional documents, the document has a link to information onpeople and companies
Enrichensinternal information with external metadata
compare internal connections to case law references in the Norstedtsblue book of Acts
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We are experimenting with
Clause library wiki
Information wikis
News blogs
Workflow / Webified instructions / Guidance notes
Transactions Know how
Planning for enterprise search / Information access platform
Transactions database
Training material database
Pitch database
Project rooms
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Enterprise search soon in each organisation
AXAPTA INTRANTPORTALENKUNSKAPS-BANKEN
INTERWOVENWORKSITE
HOGIAPERSONAL KNOW WHO
AXAPTACOMPLETO
AFFRSSYSTEM JVSKONTROLLTIDREDOVISNING
REG RENDEREG KLIENTER
REG KONTAKTER
PERSONAL-SYSTEM
KNOW HOWOCH
SUPPORTINFO
PERSON/KOMPTENS
KNOW HOW ARBETS-DOKUMENT
Klient & renden Personuppgifter
Myndighetssidor
Zeteo/Norstedts
Betaltjnster
Affrsdata
PL CInfoTorg
Gratis web
In tresseorganisationer
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Thanks!