Oz Benamram is the Director of Knowledge Management and the Israel Practice Counsel at Morrison & Foerster. 

As the Director of Knowledge Management, Mr. Benamram provides the firm strategic direction in the use of technology and knowledge management to support the substantive practice of law, and ensures the implementation and broad adoption of technology by practice groups worldwide. Mr. Benamram is a nationally recognized thought leader and a frequent speaker on legal technology and knowledge management subjects. As the leader of the firm’s Knowledge Management Group, he designed and led the development of AnswerBase , the firm’s award-winning intelligent search system that offers the firm’s attorneys and staff a powerful one-stop source for finding, understanding, and using the vast array of information needed to serve clients.

In his role as the Israel Practice Counsel , he uses his knowledge of both American and Israeli business cultures and legal systems to help represent Israeli businesses in the United States and Asia, as well as global investors in Israel.

Mr. Benamram was an associate in the corporate department of the New York office between 1999 and 2002. His practice focused on corporate and securities law, assisting clients primarily with public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture agreements, securities issues, and general business matters. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Benamram spent a year as a visiting attorney in the corporate department of Fulbright & Jaworski’s New York office, where he helped represent Israeli clients in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and general securities matters. Between 1996 and 1998, he was an associate with Danziger, Klagsbald & Co. in Israel, where he concentrated on commercial litigation and corporate control disputes. Mr. Benamram clerked for the Honorable Justice Mishael Cheshin of the Supreme Court of Israel between 1995 and 1996.

Born in Jerusalem in 1967, Mr. Benamram received his B.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Social Sciences, magna cum laude, and his LL.B. from the Tel Aviv University Law School in 1995. He served as Chairman of the Law School Student Council, helped to establish and volunteered in the Tel Aviv University Civil Rights Clinic and received the Law School dean’s fellowship for his social involvement. Mr. Benamram was a Major in the Israel Defense Forces, where he served as a Tank Company Commander.

Mr. Benamram is a member of the New York State Bar, the Israel Bar, the Board of Directors of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the Israel-U.S. Investor Advisory Forum, the Israeli Business Forum of New York and the International Council of the New Israel Fund.

In addition to his practice, Mr. Benamram has advised, on a pro bono basis, numerous human rights organizations to which Morrison & Foerster provides legal representation on corporate, labor, insurance, intellectual property and tax issues. Among these organizations were Doctors of the World, Forefront Activists, Human Rights Watch, the International Legal Assistance Network for Human Rights and the New Israel Fund.

Knowledge Management Publications and Speeches

• “The New Face of CRM,” ILTA KM PG (Webinar, June 20, 2008) http://www.iltanet.org/communications/transcript_detail.aspx?nvID=000000011405&h4ID=000001270805
• “Connections in Context,” Enterprise Search Summit (New York, May 20, 2008)
• “Electronic filing of emails - automatic vs. manual?” Knowledge Management for the Legal Profession (London, April 23, 2008)
• “The Client Team Approach: Why it Won't Work (Or what you need to consider to make it work),” Capitalizing On the Client-Focused Practice Support Function conference (New York, March 19, 2008)
• “Technology Integration – The New Face of KM,” LegalTech Show (New York, February 5, 2008)
• “Using Knowledge Management to Enhance Client Service,” IQPC Legal Technology Exchange (Pinehurst, November 5, 2007)
• “Managing Critical Information: Knowledge Management & Enterprise Search,” Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum (Lisbon, June 7, 2007)
• “Enterprise Search in a 2.0 World” Keynote Speaker, Enterprise Search Summit (New York, May 16, 2007)( Download the PDF Presentation )
• “Emerging tools and technologies for KM and information-sharing” Knowledge Leadership Forum (New York, April 26, 2007)
• “E-Disclosure Preparedness — A New Frontier” ILTA Insight 2007 (London, April 16, 2007)
• “Content Management Best Practices,” Gartner's Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit (Orlando, March 21, 2007)
• “The Future of Search,” keynote speech at Ark’s Intelligent Search Technologies in Law Firms - Leveraging Search in Risk, Content and Knowledge Management Conference (New York, February 27, 2007)
• “Knowledge Management – Leveraging Precious Resources To Enhance Your Firm,” The Third Annual Chief Information & Technology Officers Forum (New York, January 31, 2007)
• “Using Context Searching to Find the Most Relevant Information in the Enterprise,” Enterprise Information Management (San Francisco, January 23, 2007)
• “Contextualizing Information for Innovative Knowledge Management,” KM World (San Jose, November 1, 2006)
• “Actionable Information and Attention Management,” NY-Toronto Legal Knowledge Management Forum (Toronto, September 15, 2006)
• “Maximizing Your Information Capital,” Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum (Lisbon, June 7, 2006)
• “Contextual Analysis, Entity Extraction & Innovative Search Solutions,” Enterprise Search Summit (New York, May 23, 2006)
• “Maximizing the Value of KM for Your Firm,” Knowledge Management for the Legal Profession, Managing Partner Magazine (Chicago, April 26, 2006)
• “The Intersection of Knowledge Management and Associate Development,” The ABA Business Section Spring Meeting (Tampa, April 6, 2006)
• “Enterprise Search Trends,” The 2006 Knowledge Counsel Forum (New York, March 23, 2006)
• “Rethinking Matter-Centricity: Matters as Glue, not Goal,” Ark Group KM Conference (New York, February 22, 2006)
• “The Future of Search,” Legal Knowledge Management Summit (New York, September 23, 2005)
• “New Strategies For Work Product Retrieval,” LegalTech Show (New York, January 31, 2005)
• “Know Your Client: A Knowledge-Sharing Strategy to Enable Business Development Success,” Canada/U.S. Knowledge Management Roundtable (Toronto, September 10, 2004)
• “Global Knowledge Management,” K2K Forum (Tel Aviv, Israel, August 19, 2004)
• “Knowledge Management and Breakthrough Technologies,” The Third Annual Law Firm CIO Forum (New York, March 22, 2004)
• “Knowledge Management as Growth Strategy for Law Firms.” The Second Annual Business of Practicing Conference (Tel Aviv, Israel, February 17, 2004)

Israel-Related Publications and Events

• “Investing in Cleantech,” First Israel CleanTech Conference (Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 30, 2007)
• “Litigation in the U.S.,” Litigation in the U.S. and International Arbitration, The Israel Bar Association (Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 29, 2007)
• “Paths to Liquidity in 2007,” The Annual Morrison & Foerster Global Capital Markets Seminar (Tel Aviv, Israel, July 18, 2007)
• “Beyond Corporate Compliance: Knowledge Management, Data Retention and E-discovery, ” Israeli Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (Herzliya, Israel, June 11, 2006)
• “Guidance for Pre-Public Israeli Companies: Raising Capital and Achieving Liquidity,” The Morrison & Foerster Annual Global Capital Markets Seminar (Tel Aviv, Israel, February 27, 2006)
• “Global Business Strategy to Acquire, Protect and Leverage IP,” Maximizing the Commercial Value of Intellectual Property Seminar (Tel Aviv, Israel, October 30, 2005)
• “Business and Legal Considerations Regarding Raising Capital and Becoming Players in the International Market that Every Executive and Legal Advisor of Israeli High-Tech Companies Should Know,” Global Capital Markets Seminar (Tel Aviv, Israel, March 28, 2005)
• “Tax and Business Aspects of the New American Job Creation Act and the Effect on U.S. Investors by the Proposed Amendments to Israeli Tax and Investment Laws,” (New York, December 14, 2004)
• “The Legal Environment in Israel,” Doing Business with Israel Seminar (Los Angeles, December 1, 2004)
• “Investment Encouragement Policy by the Israeli Government - Grants and Tax Breaks for U.S. Investors,” The Wall Street Transcript conference on Legal, Accounting & Financial Issues Impacting Investing in Israel (New York, June 2, 2004)
• “Application of Sarbanes-Oxley Act to Israeli Issuers” (TheMarker.com, September 1, 2002)
• “Proposed Amendments to the Israeli Research and Development Law,” (August 16, 2002)
• “The 2002 Israeli Tax Reform,” A Seminar with PricewaterhouseCoopers (New York, July 30, 2002)
• “Representation and Warranties Insurance: A New Strategic Negotiation Tool for Dealmakers,” (TheMarker.com, July 17, 2002)
• “The Risks of Hiring a Finder,” (TheMarker.com, May 22, 2002)