V. Mary Abraham

V. Mary Abraham is a law firm consultant and knowledge management thought leader who has also built a practice facilitating strategic conversations and interactive educational sessions for a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Active in the legal industry since 1991, she is a frequent speaker and writer on knowledge management, collaboration, innovation, and technology issues. Since 2013, she has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy, where she teaches collaboration, facilitation, social capital, innovation, and knowledge sharing. Her report, 'Optimizing Law Firm Support Functions' (Ark Group, 2014), provides guidance to law firm executives on how to transform administrative staff from cost centers to strategic partners of the firm. She also contributed chapters to 'Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results' (Ark Group, 2014) and 'The Talent Management Toolkit for Law Firms' (Ark Group, 2016).