Law Firm R&D and Innovation Initiatives List
It’s time to update my March 2016 list of law firm R&D and Innovation Initiatives. In June 2015 I blogged Law Firm R&D Initiatives Grow – Time for a League Table? after…
From Innovation to Adoption at Mishcon De Reya
Many large law firms tout innovation. But as I point out in my first post this year, 2018 Prediction – Lawyers Must Change How They Work, innovation has value only with adoption:…
Snapshot of the Legal Market, Missing Link, and Mystery Disconnect
Two recent surveys, the Altman Weil 2017 Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey and the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the…
2018 Prediction – Lawyers Must Change How They Work
My 2018 prediction for the legal market is as much edict as prediction: lawyers must change how they work. [A similar version of this prediction was published on 15 December…
Evolving Law Firm Staffing – Analysts at Chapman Cutler
I have long thought that law firms should hire smart, recent college graduates to whom lawyers can delegate some work. Chapman and Cutler has done so. I describe here the…
Is Legal Innovation Like Beauty – Only Skin Deep
When I started in the legal market almost three decades ago, few lawyers or firms thought to say or think the word innovation, much less tout it. Today, I read…
What Are Legal Tech + Legal Service Provider Exit Strategies?
I’ve recently spent a fair bit of time thinking and talking with friends about exit strategies for legal tech and legal service provider companies. I don’t have a clear answer,…
Will All Law Firms Eventually Corporatize?
INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATIZE TOPIC and CHRIS BULL I recently spoke with my former colleague Chris Bull who made the interesting observation that law firms will corporatize. I was intrigued about what he…