KPMG's Audit Committee Insights for July 14, 2010 featured a Corporate Board Member article about CEO succession planning. A new research study of 140 public and private CEOs and boards in North America released by Heidrick & Struggles and Stanford's Rock Center revealed serious planning gaps when it comes to CEO succession. Here is a link to the Corporate Board Member article.

Law firms have been knowledge management organizations ever since handfuls of lawyers started practicing together under the auspices of a "firm." They just didn't know it.

In a world where precedent rules, law firms aren't widely known to be trend-setters - or even early adopters. There are two law firms who have put an i-generation stake in the ground and created iPhone apps. (Other firms have launched apps, but the most highly publicized recent ones are Morrison & Foerster and Goulston & Storrs.)