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Where do lawyers come from…?
From a number of directions, there is a lot of son et lumière at the moment about the relationships between legal education and law firms and law firms and their in-house clients. As someone who has...
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Rethinking sport and life
My monthly copy of The Word magazine arrived last weekend. As usual, it is full of interesting articles about music, film and books. This month, however, there is a bit of a sporting flavour. This is...
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It’s just this thing, you know?
We are on our way towards a place where some of the technologies that currently astound us will be so commonplace as to be boring. This is a truism. It was true of the spinning mule in the 1780s, and...
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Learning from experience?
I find it useful to keep an eye on developments in our universities. Two reasons: our future lawyers are seeing and using teaching and learning techniques that they might expect to find replicated in...
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Learning from failure or success
In a round up following KM Australia, back in August, Shawn Callahan has challenged the notion that we learn best from failure. I think he has a point — the important thing is learning, not failure....
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Walking into knowledge
Until this weekend, I didn’t know of Rory Stewart. Now that I do, I am not sure whether to admire him or not. His political alignment and social background are poles apart from mine. His lifetime of...
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If I Only Had a Brain — how to become the wisest in Oz
Last week, a random tweet by James Grandage prompted a chain of thought. He tweeted: The ability to listen and engage as well as having our internal intelligence all in one place would be amazing.—...
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Some thoughts on legal education and practice
The law in England and Wales is a vital place to be at the moment. Not only do we face the same economic chaos as everyone else, but there is the prospect of fundamental regulatory change as the Legal...
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Asking better questions, getting better insight
Over the past few months I have been using a model that Nick Milton shared on his blog, to help people understand that the knowledge activities they have traditionally espoused only tell half the...
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Be irrational about irrationality
Given my focus here on challenging traditional assumptions about knowledge and the law, it would be negligent of me not to draw attention to a concise Scientific American blog from last month that...
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Law firms, memory and history
Today is 1 May, the first day of a new year for most UK-based law firms (financially, at least). All our clocks have rolled back to zero and there should be a clear way forward into the unknown of the...
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Positioning — what is this thing called KM?
One of the most fruitless recurring activities in the knowledge management world is the irregular call to ‘define KM.’ I have touched on this here before, but today is slightly different. Matt Moore...
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Knowledge insights from Atul Gawande’s Reith lectures
Annually since 1948, the BBC has broadcast a short series of lectures named in honour of its founder, Lord Reith. This year’s series is being given by Atul Gawande. Although his subject is the nature...
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Will more training really fix that problem?
When things go wrong, it is common to see training proposed as the first (and often only) response. I can understand this — training courses come with an obvious KPI (number of people trained), they...
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Finding different influences
When I was doing my research degree, I was regularly distracted by the many other interesting books in the library. Amongst those, I kept coming back to Robert Merton’s On the Shoulders of Giants. As...
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Law firms, memory and history
Today is 1 May, the first day of a new year for most UK-based law firms (financially, at least). All our clocks have rolled back to zero and there should be a clear way forward into the unknown of the...
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