bedingt durch den vorzeitigen Austritt des Betriebsratsmitglied Thomas Hofbauer, rückt unser langjähriger Vorarbeiter im Expedit, Helmut Bürger in den Betriebsrat nach.

Wir freuen uns auf die Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Kollegen Helmut, und wünschen ihm eine erfolgreiche Zeit als Betriebsrat.

Um mit Rafet Kökmen zu feiern bin ich schon zu spät, er freute sich bereits am 7.8.
Ganz knapp verpasst habe ich Heike Jada, sie war gestern das Geburtstagskind.
Aber am 24.8. hat unser Stellvertretender Vorsitzender Cengiz Ece Geburtstag, und da käme doch der Freitag, im Anschluß an die BR-Sitzung, gerade recht, um eine Runde zu zahlen, und sich ein wenig feiern zu lassen.
Zum Schluß wollen wir noch unserer lieben Antonija Kern gratulieren, sie hat am 26. Grund zu feiern.

Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA
www.kul.lublin.pl/tkaczyk

Dr.
Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Molekulare Materialien (ICMM)
und Computer-Chemie-Centrum (CCC)
Department Chemie und Pharmazie
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Erlangen, Germany
http://univis.uni-erlangen.de/form?__s=2&dsc=anew/tel_view&pers=nat/dchph/pcoce/rodzie&anonymous=1&dir=nat/dchph/pcoce&ref=resrep&sem=2008w&__e=85

KM Legal, Volume 2 Issue 5 2008

Editor's letter
Kate Clifton

FEATURES

Training and development
As the professional support lawyer (PSL) role has matured and the number of PSLs has increased, more firms are considering or having to consider whether they need to put in place a PSL career development framework.

Case study: Nabarro
When Nabarro Nathanson last year became simply Nabarro and ‘Clarity Matters’ became its brand promise, at the same time, ‘knowledge anagement’ at the firm became simply ‘knowledge’. At a stroke Anna Marshall, the firm’s professional practice partner, managed to cut through the esoteric debate about how we can possibly manage knowledge and how we should clearly distinguish between knowledge and information. In the practical commercial world of the modern law firm, it doesn’t matter. “Knowledge” plain, simple, clear and uncluttered had arrived at Nabarro.

Case study: A client perspective on KM
When I presented at Ark Group’s KM Legal event in April, my main objective was to offer law firms an insight into a typical client’s perspective in knowledge management (KM). While many law firms – as knowledge-based organisations – might assume that there is a huge divide between the way they collate, store, manage and disseminate know-how across their organisations, and how an average enterprise business utilises its information and data, there are perhaps more similarities than you would think. In fact, many larger multi-national companies have the same business drivers for effective KM processes and systems, the same information challenges and, sometimes, additional factors that might not be relevant to a law firm.

Book review
As a member of Patti Anklam’s 2003 Gennova Emergent Learning Network from which Net Work emerged, this is undoubtedly a positively biased review. Hearing the author explain ?energy? in networks in organisations at a 2003 Advanced Thinkers Summit both introduced me to Patti Anklam’s Net Work wisdom and prompted my pursuit of the ideas.

Profile: Managing information
Amanda McKenzie’s career experience in information management is perhaps a little more unusual than the conventional route into library services, which more commonly, or traditionally, would start with a library sciences degree. After all, she actually trained for a legal career. Once she completed her LPC (or the Law Society Finals – LSF as it was called at the time), she started doing legal executive work. But the challenges and diversity of information services in the legal profession convinced her to move into information – joining the information team of a large law firm 15 years ago, followed by mid-tier UK law firm Olswang, where she has remained ever since.

REGULARS

Cover feature: Worth their weight in gold
Tim Castorina, managing professional support lawyer (PSL) at international firm Linklaters, discusses the characteristics that can make a PSL truly indispensable to their firm with Kate Clifton.

Thought leader
One of the hot topics of the moment (and, in all likelihood, the foreseeable future) is the impact of external investment into the profession as a result of the Legal Services Act. The knowledge strategist will recognise that any assessment of their firm for investment appraisal purposes will involve thorough due diligence of the KM function and a view being taken of its ‘value added’ contribution and potential.

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Ph.D., P. Eng. Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Victoria, CANADA
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~adam/

Professor of Finance at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK
http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/faculty/ania_zalewska.html

M.D.Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine - Evansville
Evansville, IN , USA
Przewodniczący Rady fundacji Niezależne Forum Akademickie
http://shaw.medlib.iupui.edu/ecme/cwojcik.htm

Niezależne Forum Akademickie, prezes fundacji

b. wykładowca geologii UJ, Kraków

www.geo-jwieczorek.ans.pl

DPhil MA
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Sherrington Building
OX1 3PT, Oxford, UK
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~ps/

Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
http://www.musc.edu/BCMB/facultypages/szulcz.htm

Professor of Computer Sciences
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences 305 N. University Street West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/

Ph.D.; D.Sc.
Professor of Marketing and International Marketing
A.J. Palumbo School of Business
John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA , USA
http://www.pte.pl/335_Jan_Napoleon_Saykiewicz.html

Professor
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa,  Ontario, CANADA
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/

Professor of Cell Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=8045

dr
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Ingenieria Matematica
Santiago, Chile
http://suchan.info/index.html

Professor
Laboratory for Algorithmics Research
Department of Computing Science
Faculty of Science
University of Alberta, CANADA
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~piotr/

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Economics, USA
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mrostek

Professor,

Mathematics and Statistics,

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Youngstown State University Youngstown, Oh , USA
http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~zpiotrow/

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/krys.pawlikowski/

Ph.D.
Research Emeritus, Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN , USA
http://web.utk.edu/~aspweb/faculty/nabelek/default.shtml

Professor of Applied Micropalaeontology
Department of Earth Sciences
Palaeobiology, Uppsala, SWEDEN
http://www.palaeontology.geo.uu.se/pershems/Malgorzata.html