Preparing Knowledge Management for Law Practice

Law practice is paying more and more attention to the deployment of knowledge management (KM). However, the deployment of knowledge management is often based on an ad hoc decision. We claim that the application of KM in law practice needs a good preparation, which is important, but often no part of KM methods. There is still no specific KM method for law practice and most methods approach knowledge management only as a support of the entire organisation. Such an approach of knowledge management is in our view too limited. Knowledge management for an entire organisation may for instance not be fully appropriate to support management of specific legal tasks using specific knowledge. For the development of a KM method for law practice, AI and Law research should be useful.