Blockchain – Will It Affect Your Practice or Firm?
Introduction to Blockchain Interview on Its impact on Practice and Firms Both the legal and mainstream media have written many articles about the Blockchain. So I thought readers will appreciate…
How Law Firms Should Prepare for the Future of Legal Services (HighQ SmartLaw Book Contribution)
HighQ, a UK-based software company serving the legal market, recently initiated a conversation about SmarltLaw. It started with a website earlier this year. This month, the company released a short e-book that asked 15…
The Coming Changes in How Lawyers Practice
In this century we have seen dramatic changes in the legal market. From a period of plenty, we moved to one of seeming scarcity. Many commentators suggest that the legal…
Flex by Fenwick – A Strategic Approach to Service Delivery
FLEX by Fenwick is Fenwick & West LPP‘s 90-lawyer-strong interim in-house counsel business that “is the only service backed by an AmLaw 100 firm that provides custom solutions for interim in-house legal needs.” I…
Do Large Law Firms Have to Start from Scratch to Automate?
A recent article about aircraft production observed that automation requires starting from scratch. Wow. It made me wonder if that’s so for law firms?. Airplane Makers Automate to Meet Surging Demand in the Wall…
What’s Easier to Learn? Law or Statistics?
“Much of the ‘knowledge’ of lawyers can be acquired and accessed by many other means. The only thing over which a law firm has an entrenched monopoly are those aspects…
Bots, Big Data, Blockchain, and AI – Disruption or Incremental Change?
The legal media has lately had a mania for tech headlines. Many commentators claim that tech, especially artificial intelligence (AI), will do something to Big Law. I disagree. Tech more likely will do something…
Machine Learning (AI) to Answer to Legal Questions: Blue J Legal
With artificial intelligence headlines appearing daily, making sense of it is hard. I doubt it will disrupt Big Law but believe it can create significant practice efficiencies. To get beyond the hype,…
Who’s Managing Big Law Alternative Staffing?
Altman Weil’s recently released 2016 Law Firms in Transition survey is good reading for all law firm management. For me, the questions it raises are the number of non-partner track lawyers and…
What are the Managing Partner, Practice Group Leader and COO Thinking? (Live from P3)
This is a live post from P3, the Practice Innovation Conference. This session is What are the Managing Partner, Practice Group Leader and COO Thinking?. I have appended the session description…
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