Comments on: Prescriptivity and appropriateness http://blog.tarn.org/2008/09/30/prescriptivity-and-appropriateness/ Unpicking traditional assumptions about KM and the life of the law Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Gould http://blog.tarn.org/2008/09/30/prescriptivity-and-appropriateness/#comment-91 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:39:00 +0000 http://innominate.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-91 Mary,

Unfortunately, I am struggling with this myself at the moment!

I think it takes a while to become familiar with the landscape of legal practice, but we have high expectations that our less experienced lawyers should perform at a high level as early as possible. This underpins the profit model of most law firms. One way in which the more junior lawyers react to this pressure might be to avoid exploring anything that is not obviously directly related to the deals that they are doing now. (I have also seen similar behaviours in other roles as well, so it isn’t just a lawyerly problem.)

Somehow, we need to foster a curiosity about lawyering that will encourage people to get a better feel for the law and business, and allow them to exercise their imaginations.

]]> By: Mary Abraham http://blog.tarn.org/2008/09/30/prescriptivity-and-appropriateness/#comment-90 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:05:30 +0000 http://innominate.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-90 Mark –

This is a very interesting post that I’ll want to chew over more in the next few days. While I’m doing that, could you suggest some ways in which law firm knowledge managers might help “develop the creative and improvisatory instinct in lawyers”? Surely this requires more that simply deploying web 2.0 tools, but what more?

- Mary

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