Legal Know-How for Practicing Law
Welcome to LexTechne
Practical Know-How for Lawyers, Paralegals and Legal Assistants
What is LexTechne?
LexTechne (from lex, Latin for law, and techne, Greek for skill or craft) represents the intersection of legal knowledge and operational craftsmanship.
Episteme, Techne, & Phronesis
Crafting the Law So You Can Practice Law
LexTechne helps solo and small-firm attorneys systemize their practice through structured thinking, repeatable workflows, and intelligent tools, all carefully designed to capture what you already know and transform it into efficient, repeatable processes that move your work forward and can be followed by others.
We Focus on Three Core Knowledge Skillsets:
The modern law office is a knowledge enterprise, where information is researched, collected, organized and stored, so that it can be internalized, processed and assimilated, so that knowledge, in the form of work product can be produced, utilized, managed and leveraged. These tasks will be performed on either a computer or in someone’s head. Therefore, the essential skills for personnel working in a law office to perform their jobs are categorized as information, computer and thinking skills, and these skills are needed by each employee in accordance with their individual job description. Traditionally, law firm personnel consisted of lawyers and legal secretaries. In the late 1960’s, paralegals and legal assistants were added to the mix. However, in the 21st century, I maintain that it may be better to refer to law firm personnel as knowledge assets and categorize them as knowledge workers, knowledge technologists, knowledge managers and knowledge professionals. Traditionally, law firm personnel consisted of lawyers and legal secretaries. In the late 1960’s, paralegals and legal assistants were added to the mix. However, in the 21st century, I maintain that it may be better to refer to law firm personnel as knowledge assets and categorize them as knowledge workers, knowledge technologists, knowledge managers and knowledge professionals. The modern law office is a knowledge enterprise, where information is researched, collected, organized and stored, so that it can be internalized, processed and assimilated, so that knowledge, in the form of work product can be produced, utilized, managed and leveraged. These tasks will be performed on either a computer or in someone’s head. Therefore, the essential skills for personnel working in a law office to perform their jobs are categorized as information, computer and thinking skills, and these skills are needed by each employee in accordance with their individual job description. The modern law office is a knowledge enterprise, where information is researched, collected, organized and stored, so that it can be internalized, processed and assimilated, so that knowledge, in the form of work product can be produced, utilized, managed and leveraged. These tasks will be performed on either a computer or in someone’s head. Therefore, the essential skills for personnel working in a law office to perform their jobs are categorized as information, computer and thinking skills, and these skills are needed by each employee in accordance with their individual job description. The modern law office is a knowledge enterprise, where information is researched, collected, organized and stored, so that it can be internalized, processed and assimilated, so that knowledge, in the form of work product can be produced, utilized, managed and leveraged. These tasks will be performed on either a computer or in someone’s head. Therefore, the essential skills for personnel working in a law office to perform their jobs are categorized as information, computer and thinking skills, and these skills are needed by each employee in accordance with their individual job description. The modern law office is a knowledge enterprise, where information is researched, collected, organized and stored, so that it can be internalized, processed and assimilated, so that knowledge, in the form of work product can be produced, utilized, managed and leveraged. These tasks will be performed on either a computer or in someone’s head. Therefore, the essential skills for personnel working in a law office to perform their jobs are categorized as information, computer and thinking skills, and these skills are needed by each employee in accordance with their individual job description. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905.Modern Law Office
Personnel Using Computers to Produce and Manage:
Law Office Personnel
Lawyers, Paralegals and Legal Secretaries can be More Accurately Referred to as:
Know-How Skills
Mastering Any Know-how Skill Requires Mastery of the Eight Ts.
Acquiring Know-How Skills
Mastering Any Know-how Skill Requires Mastery of the Eight Ts.
Assessing Skill Levels
Skill Levels
Producing Work Product
Mastering Any Know-how Skill Requires Mastery of the Eight Ts.
Managing Information and Personnel
Skill Levels
