BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nGenera, together with California law firm Folger, Levin & Kahn, and
Legal OnRamp, today announced that they had collaborated to use a wiki
tool to author a sophisticated white paper on legal issues presented by
new Internet technologies, including wikis themselves.
Deepak Ramanchandran, VP Enterprise 2.0 at nGenera, stated, “We're
working with the most sophisticated companies in the world to help them
develop Enterprise 2.0 approaches. Law may very well go from ‘worst
to first’ in its adoption of Enterprise 2.0.
The white paper shows that concerns about the use of Enterprise 2.0
tools in the legal environment are relatively easy to overcome. We
deployed a collaborative network to help address these concerns. We’ve
had great results so far.”
Paul Lippe, founder of Legal OnRamp, said, “As
we like to say in Silicon Valley, we decided to ‘eat
our own dog food,’ using Web 2.0 approaches to
address Web 2.0 issues. We turned to Mike Kelleher, an expert in legal
technology issues, to lead the wiki social authorship effort to develop
a collaborative expertise model in this critical emerging area. A whole
range of lawyers and clients have contributed to the wiki, and it will
be continually updated and improved.”
Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Cisco, said, “The
top driver of productivity improvement over the next decade will be
collaboration. Lawyers can use their expertise to help clear away
hurdles to collaboration-driven productivity improvements for their
clients and to begin to improve their own productivity using these
techniques. Legal expertise has always been ‘socially
produced,’ and this just represents the next
step.”
Mike Kelleher, Partner, Folger Levin & Kahn, “We
were delighted to invest some unbilled time in pulling together this
wiki-based White Paper on legal considerations in Web 2.0. The wiki
social authorship model on Legal OnRamp is easy to learn and easy to
use. Unlike Wikipedia, the attribution and editorship feature provide an
extra layer of assurance. And with an ever-changing area like this,
tapping into the community for both emerging issues and emerging best
practices is the only way to stay on top of things. The document isn’t
perfect, because every day it gets better.”
Richard Susskind, the UK-based legal IT expert and futurist, “Wikis
will be used whenever there is an opportunity for lawyers to collaborate
with one another or with their clients. Although the legal fraternity is
not renowned for collaborating, the clear attractions of legal wikis
should help foster greater co-operative spirit: contributions to wikis
can be made easily and quickly; their impact and usefulness is immediate
and apparent; they evolve rather than requiring one single act of
creation; they provoke stimulating debate and discussion; and they
appeal to the ego, in that contributors seem irresistibly enjoined to
leave their mark.”
Marisia Campbell, Stikeman Elliott LLP, “We’re
always looking for ways to deliver more value to clients, such as making
knowledge more available. Wiki authorship is a very exciting and
promising area.”
Gillian Hadfield, Professor, USC Law School, “As
has been well documented, the self-regulation of the legal industry
stands as an impediment to legal innovation. This effort shows how
clients, using modern tools and techniques, are beginning to drive the
innovation themselves, with the help of forward-thinking law firms.”
James Seidl, President of Legal Research Center and co-publisher of the
2008 Legal Transformation Study: Your 2020 Vision of the Future,
"As free and easy access to legal content increases, one major
differentiator that will help lawyers maintain their position as key
providers of premium legal advice is their ability to leverage
technology. Technology is the catalyst that will enable law firms to
transform their practice development from risk-averse to one that
embraces risk as an entree to opportunity. Wiki social authorship
is a future legal industry best practice, and thanks to Legal OnRamp,
the future is now.”
About nGenera
nGenera Corporation is an on-demand platform for business innovation
that provides a suite of subscription-based offerings to enable the Next
Generation Enterprise. Powered by software and people, nGenera’s
on-demand offerings give organizations sustainable, breakthrough
capabilities in leadership performance, talent management and
development, and customer experience. Customers that subscribe to the
company's on-demand solutions include a marquee list of Global 2000
companies in a range of industries.
For more information, please visit http://www.ngenera.com.
About Legal OnRamp
Currently used by over 175 companies and more than 150 law firms, Legal
OnRamp provides content via collaborative Wikipedia-style postings and
collaboration via social and professional networking and execution
services to help legal professionals deliver higher quality work in less
time at a lower cost. Law firm client alerts and publications, as well
as standard templates, are available to in-house attorneys in the Legal
OnRamp community, enabling them to answer legal questions without
starting from scratch each time. Social networking and other online
collaboration tools are also available to help in-house lawyers
collaborate better with their counterparts in other companies and with
external counsel. These services directly respond to the desire of
in-house lawyers to have ready access to a wide range of knowledge and
to be able to work more closely and in a smarter way with internal and
external colleagues.
For further information, please contact Sylvia Nessan snessan@legalonramp.com.
Contacts
for nGenera
Jessie Brumfiel, 805-686-2718 (office)
805-350-1674
(cell)
jb@jb-labs.com
or
Legal
OnRamp
Sylvia Nessan
snessan@legalonramp.com