New Software to Manage Deals (DealStage)
I recently saw a demo of DealStage, software designed to help lawyers manage deals. The company bills its software as enabling “attorneys & transactional professionals to better manage the deal process lifecycle from…
Meet Your New Lawyer, IBM Watson
Will IBM Watson be your new lawyer? Perhaps someday. For now, I tackle an easier question: what role can Watson play in Big Law? I speculate here so welcome comments and corrections. Last week at the…
Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support
Today I presented at the ALA 2014 annual conference on Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support. The slides are below. I previously provided a preview of the talk in my March 2014 blog…
Shifts in the Legal Market Summed Up in 4 Tweets
My post last week, State of the US Legal Market Summed Up in 3 Tweets, showed large law firms responding to flat demand by merging and cutting costs. Like last week,…
Steps to Survive the Coming Competition
[This post was first published at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference & Exposition Blog on 3 Feb 2014. Conference info here.] Many in the legal market talk about a “New Normal”…
Is a JD Really Necessary to Do Document Review?
Last week I posed a question on Twitter: “Does a person doing #eDiscovery doc review need a JD? Not asking what market wants. Asking what law / ethics say.” That…
Do Less Law (ReInvent Law Presentation)
Last week I spoke at ReInvent Law NYC. It is an “open public conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry.” You can see a…
The New World of Legal Work – Comments on Jordan Furlong Report
Jordan Furlong of Law21 has written a new and provocative study, The New World of Legal Work: The Changing Rules of The 21st Century. It was commissioned by LOD, formerly known as Lawyers on Demand,…
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