I have worked in law firms and consulted for them as well for more than 15 years.

I have to agree that good basic records management skills are important. The people skills are different because lawyers believe they are "owners" or are aspiring "owners" and trying to get attention. This just means you need to collaborate a lot more, and this takes on a different flavor for each firm.

The one skill I believe is different is that you must understand creation and capture of records, not in the CDIA+ sense, but in the sense of document control and document management. That experience did more for my understanding of EDMS, workflow, and ECM applications than any other.

Best wishes,
Carol


Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM, PMP
CEO
IRAD Strategic Consulting, Inc.
(317)294-8329

Adjunct Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, Bloomington

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