Gaining the Benefits of Legal AI for In-House Counsel
How can in-house counsel gain the benefits of legal artificial intelligence (AI)? That is the question I answered on April 12, 2017 in a webinar for the Buying Legal Council, the trade organization for legal procurement. The slides are below; I present here a brief synopsis of my talk....
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
4 min read
Upping the Game in Large Law Firm Online Legal Services
In December 2016, Goodwin announced an expansion of its Founders Workbench online legal service for emerging companies via a partnership with Shoobx. I follow large law firm online legal services carefully, so wanted to learn more about this move. This year, I spoke with Goodwin partners Mark Bettencourt and Gregg Katz and Shoobx executives Jason Furtado, CEO and Matt...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
5 min read
A Day of Legal Innovation in London: Client Innovation Space + Flex Staffing
It may only be Tuesday, but is has already been an eventful week in innovation news from the London legal market. Two Magic Circle firms and one Top 30 firm made noteworthy announcements today. Here is a quick recap, some additional insight from an email...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
4 min read
Interview: Elevator Pitch, Blogging, and Legal Tech (#LegalTechLives)
I was recently interviewed about my elevator pitch, blogging, and the future of legal tech for the ROSS Intelligence blog by Kathleen Killin (#LegalTechLives with Ron Friedmann, Consultant at Fireman & Company + Principal of Prism Law). I reproduce it here. #LegalTechLives with Ron Friedmann, Consultant at Fireman &...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
6 min read
The Future of Contract Management
What is the future of contract management? I ask for two reasons. First, we have seen an explosion in software start-ups focused on various elements of drafting or managing contracts. And second, in the last month I saw demos of synergist.io and LawGeex. Synergist’s tag line is...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
6 min read
Knowledge Management Priorities in Large Law Firms – 2017 Survey
I report here on a recent, privately conducted knowledge management survey of large law firms. Mary Abraham, Oz Benamram and I conduct this survey in preparation for a meeting of KM professionals in February. Learning about current KM priorities and interests inform our agenda. We...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
7 min read
The Changing Legal Ecosystem
I report here on the panel The Changing Legal Ecosystem from a private meeting of large law firm knowledge management professionals. The panelists are two founders of AI companies, a founder of managed legal services provider, and one in-house counsel. The moderator is a CKO. This...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
7 min read
Legal Tech is Not Enough
Legal tech is much ballyhooed but is not enough to fix law firm and client problems. The publisher of Legal IT Insider, also known as the Orange Rag, recently asked “leading legal tech suppliers and high profile management consultants to do some future gazing on...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
2 min read
Legal Operations – What We Know Now
Legal business operations, especially in corporate law departments, is on the rise. Lawyers in both law firms and law departments require an array of business and administrative support. That support makes a huge difference to legal cost, effectiveness, quality, and turnaround times. Yet operations receives less media coverage than,...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
5 min read
Best of my 2016 Posts Now in an eBook by Legal Business World
My friends at Legal Business World, a Dutch global publisher, offered to publish an eBook of the best of my 2016 blog posts. Working with them I have assembled about 20 blog posts in three categories: Changes in Law Firm Service Delivery and Who Does the...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
1 min read
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