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RBS posits Mexican wave model to cut legal outlay

I work for an LPO, Zeta Intelex. Have also worked as a solicitor in London for a couple of years. RBS has the wrong end of the problem. Non standardization, hoarding of knowledge, anti-KM and anti-collaborative practices happen because legal work is distributed within the firm in a whimsical, capricious and error prone manner. LPO in fact would not appeal, if the process of allocating work was reasonable. Its a self feeding cycle of errors, work gets allocated on random basis, which have nothing to do with consumer welfare, and knowledge stays muddled. Knowledge stays muddled, there is no way to objectively track merit, and work continues to be allocated on random basis. Its rich if RBS thinks that it could leverage the fundamental problem afflicting an employed solicitor's work life to solve consequent problems. It won't work, simply because this fundamental problem did not originate at the workplace at all, but has its roots in how lawyers get trained. Or rather, in how they do not get trained.

10-Mar-2010

6:36 am