Knowledge Management for the Modern Law Firm

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The Next Phase of Knowledge Management

Never has it been more vital, or more challenging, to leverage your firm's collective knowledge and experience to gain a competitive advantage. The challenge lies in collecting, synthesizing, and efficiently accessing growing stores of data housed in multiple knowledge management (KM) systems. Data collection is exploding, and big data pressures are compounded by escalating client demands for faster and more cost-effective service. To leverage know-how as a competitive differentiator, firms are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that can quickly and intelligently mine their mountains of legal data.

Acknowledging the Limitations of KM Investments

Knowledge management implementations all serve the same objective: to help professionals deliver value to their clients. In reality, however, tracking down relevant information is an arduous, time-consuming process. Time is short, and users often find the quickest way to the best information is to circumvent their KM platforms altogether. For law firms to achieve ideal levels of KM responsiveness, several limiting factors must be addressed:

• Partner lateral moves and firm acquisitions are on the rise, exacerbating data integration difficulties.

• SharePoint becomes increasingly time-consuming to use and difficult to maintain as firms expand.

• The need to search multiple platforms makes quick answers difficult to come by.

• Internal systems are rarely easy to access on the go.

Driving Growth with Advanced Knowledge Management

The ability to quickly mine quality information from mountains of legal data will be the modern law firm's hallmark of success. With the rise of machine learning and AI, the core problems of a knowledge management program are eliminated because systems are now capable of collecting, cataloging, and summarizing massive volumes of data for easy human consumption. This advanced approach supports growth in several ways:

• Growing via effective business development and cross-selling.

• Leveraging the firm's "know how" as a competitive differentiator.

• Driving consistency in messaging and execution.

Embracing the Role of Artificial Intelligence in KM Success

Artificial intelligence has made its way into the legal profession as a means of interacting more naturally with digital systems. It is capable of searching and synthesizing huge volumes of data from multiple sources, producing more insightful results more quickly and cost-effectively than humans can. A full-featured AI-powered solution empowers data-driven law firms to support big-picture growth objectives:

• A More Productive Firm: AI minimizes the work required to capture information and increases the quality and accessibility of client and matter profile information.

• Successful Lateral Integration: By quickly incorporating the skills of incoming talent, AI improves a firm's ability to promote effective cross-selling.

• Competitive Advantage: AI helps turn around RFP responses, answer inquiries, and build teams with the right expertise faster.

Choosing an AI Solution for Your Firm

Advancements in AI are evolving the way law firms and lawyers answer questions and draw legal insights. One solution leading the way is Ikaun. Ikaun is an AI-powered solution that integrates with existing platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint. It includes an Intelligent Knowledge Assistant (IKA), a cognitive engagement technology that allows users to ask questions in a natural conversational manner and get answers. IKA can tap into both Knowledge Catalogs and other internal/external systems to derive answers or route unanswered questions to the appropriate people.