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Optimizing Contracting Processes + Practices (live from IACCM)

This is a live blog post from the International Association for Contracting & Commercial Professionals (IACCM) Americas Forum. [Please forgiven any typos or misunderstandings in meaning.] This session is Optimizing Contracting Processes + Practices with Arne Byberg, Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Solutions & Associate General Counsel,...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 7 min read

Contract Management

Looking at Contracting Risk Holistically (live from IACCM)

This is a live blog post from the International Association for Contracting & Commercial Professionals (IACCM) Americas Forum. [Please forgiven any typos or misunderstandings in meaning.] This session is Breaking Out of the Box: Looking at Risk Holistically with Rod Wade, Vice President, Contract Management, MedImpact Healthcare...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 5 min read

Innovation and Change Management, Law Departments / Client Service, Law Firm Service Delivery

Can Big Law Learn from Hotel Room Design + Airline Pricing?

Sometimes a blog post just cries to be written. Tonight I read hardcopy of the Wall Street Journal. Side by side articles on page 1 of Personal Journal struck me as offering – with a little imagination – lessons for law firms. Secrets to Creating a...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 2 min read

Blockchain, Contract Management, Do Less Law, Innovation and Change Management, Interesting Technology

Contracts as Code: Q&A with Ethereum on the Future of Contracting

Introduction I have long thought about applying technology to improve contract creation and management. My first blog post on the topic dates from 2004 (see my contract management posts here.) Recently, I have read several articles about how blockchain technology – which underlies Bitcoin – can support self-fulfilling contracts....

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 13 min read

Do Less Law, Law Firm Service Delivery

Improving Legal Service Delivery Will Take Years

[LegalTrek first published this interview on 5 August 2015 here under the same title, Improving Legal Service Delivery Will Take Years. Ilina Rejeva conducted the interview.] Ilina: Hello, Ron! In your article “Will We Ever Say Goodbye to Email?” you outline that people are still wed to...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 5 min read

Contract Management

Finally, A Law Firm Offers Contract Management Software and Service

Introduction Law firms make good money drafting contracts. Absent a dispute, however, executing a contract ends a law firm’s business on that contract. That has long struck me as a lost opportunity. Why only set up the rights and obligation; why not also track and...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 4 min read

Do Less Law

Are Big Law Legal Technology Experts Failing? A Pre-ILTACon Question

Are Big Law legal technology experts failing at their jobs? I ask this question as the leading global tech experts from Big Law and not-so-Big Law are about to converge in Las Vegas at “ILTACon” (The International Legal Technology Association’s ILTA 2015 conference). The question was prompted...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 3 min read

Bar Regulation, General

Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? Bloomberg Asks

It’s rare that the legal market makes the cover of Business Week. The current print issue (24-30 August 2015) cover story asks “Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?” The article describes the dust-up between lesser-ranked law schools and the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) over the...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 2 min read

Do Less Law, General, Innovation and Change Management, Law Firm Service Delivery, Law Firm Staffing, Legal Process Improvement, Legal Project Management, ...

Do Large Law Firms Work Differently from Each Other?

I wonder if lawyers at large law firms practice differently. With all the discussions about strategy and competitive differentiation, I rarely read about how lawyers do their work. And I believe this matters more than the market thinks. What do I mean by how lawyers work? Examples...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 3 min read

General, Law Factory v. Bet the Farm, Law Firm Service Delivery

What Big Law Can Learn from Alphabet

Google’s restructuring leads the business news this week. The company created a parent company, Alphabet, under which Google Inc. will be the biggest operating unit. Other units will house Nest, life sciences, robotics, and other Google businesses. As the New York Times suggests, this lets Google focus –...

Ron Friedmann, 10 years ago 1 min read

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