Can Law Firms Gain a Sustainable Advantage with AI?
The article Investing in AI? Strategy Principles Say Go Lightly and Later by Hugh Simons in the American Lawyer (18 May 2018) argues that law firms cannot gain a sustainable competitive advantage by…
A Multidisciplinary Future to Solve Legal Problems
Legal IT Today (#21, March 2018 – pdf) recently posed a question: “Today the table is full of partners and associates and select others. When AI ‘arrives’ at a law firm,…
The Great Legal Reformation (Live Post #ArkCM)
This is a live post from the Ark Law Firm Change Management Summit. This session is the keynote by Mitchell E. Kowalski M.A. LL.M. ICD.D., Barrister and Solicitor, Gowling WLG, Visiting…
How Firms are Redefining DMS Ownership to Drive Adoption
My Fireman & Company business partner, Tom Baldwin, and I co-authored this article. The ILTA KM blog first published it on 20 April 2018 and I reproduce it hre. Introduction Many…
Two Paths to Legal Innovation that Changes How Lawyers Work
In my last post, I wrote unless innovation changes how lawyers work, it likely delivers little benefit to firms or clients. Since publishing that post 10 days ago, three recent…
The Client Quest for Value – Innovation, Insourcing, and Outsourcing
Recent surveys and news items illustrate clients’ quest for value, the challenge of innovation, and renewed interest in outsourcing for value. Can we draw any conclusions from these disparate items?…
Consulting, Change, Education, and More – Legal Business World Interviews Me
Legal Business World, a global legal publication, recently interviewed me for its 2018 #2 e-magazine, here. LBW subsequently posted the interview at its website as Ron Friedmann on Consultancy, Change and Education…
What a Successful Legal Tech Entrepreneur (Jeroen Plink) Seeks in a Legal Tech Start-Up.
We read about legal tech start-ups daily. I thought it would be interesting to learn how an experienced and successful legal tech entrepreneur thinks about investing his own money in…
AI Beats Lawyers in NDA Review Accuracy – LawGeex Study
LawGeex, a developer of AI software to review contracts, today released a study that found that AI beats lawyers in the accuracy of reviewing NDAs (non-disclosure agreements). The LawGeex infographic…
Knowledge Management Overview – 2018 Edition
I recently wrote a Knowledge Management Overview, which appears as a chapter in Leaders in Legal Business (Stephen McGarry). This e-book collects essays by legal market thought leaders. It was published last…
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