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…
Knowledge Management Priorities in Large Law Firms – 2018 Survey
I report here on the 2018 Knowledge Management (KM) Summit survey results. The Summit is a meeting of senior knowledge management professionals from large US, UK, Canadian, and Australian law…
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…
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