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 legal tech start-ups. I met Jeroen Plink about a decade ago when he came to...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
8 min read
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 is at https://www.lawgeex.com/AIvsLawyer/ and you can also download the 37-page PDF study from that page. It’s worth...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
4 min read
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 week by AILFN (Association of International Law Firm Networks). My full KM article is here on this...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
1 min read
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 firms. Mary Abraham, Oz Benamram, and I organize the meeting. To prepare for it, we...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
7 min read
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 reading a few articles about large law firms with formal and funded R&D initiatives. After...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
2 min read
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: lawyers must change how they work. Reports I hear make me wonder how many lawyers actually...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
5 min read
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 Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor® provide a...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
6 min read
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 2017 at the Aderant blog, Think Tank: 20+ Legal Tech and Business of Law Predictions for...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
3 min read
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 firm’s Analyst program. But first, I’ll start with some background. My three-year stint in the...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
6 min read
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 legal innovation articles or blog posts every day. I have to ask though, does reality...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
3 min read
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