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 International Legal Technology Association annual conference an IBM Watson senior manager presented to an invitation-only meeting of Global...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
4 min read
ILTA Talk Preview: Legal Inflection Point: Innovate Now
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference begins this weekend in Nashville. Here is a brief preview of the panel on which I am speaking on Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014, at 130pm CDT. The panel is Legal Industry Inflection Point: The Time for Innovation Is...
Ron Friedmann,
11 years ago
1 min read
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, my current Tweets of the Week again happen to tell a story. They offer a look at...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
2 min read
Where is the Excitement about the Future of the Legal Market?
Every day I read about big and exciting changes in industry. On Monday, the New York Times reported on the huge impact graphene could have in electronics and other industries, Forbes on the first artificial red blood cells that may go into production. Change happens even in old...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
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” where margin pressure is the norm. Is this true, and does it matter? Yes, and here’s why....
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
3 min read
Lines Between Legal Businesses Blur – Law Firm as LPO – Radiant Law
Radiant Law, a new model UK law firm founded in 2011, announced today that the firm is opening its own legal process outsourcing (LPO) center in South Africa. To be sure, many large firms have opened low cost service centers. Just this week, for example, Hogan...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
5 min read
It’s the Client, Stupid! (ReInvent Law Live)
Susan Hackett (@HackettInHouse) speaks at #ReInventLaw.. The title of her talk: “It’s the Client, Stupid!” (Live post – forgive any typos.) Starts with a story about James Carville story, putting a story over President Clinton’s desk. It said, “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” At audiences like this,...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
2 min read
Law as Engineering (ReInvent Law Live)
David Howarth on Law as Engineering at ReInvent Law NYC. (Live post – forgive errors.) What is that lawyers do? Public thinks it is litigation. In UK, 80% of lawyers are not involved in litigation. Lawyers create documents that are useful to their clients. They...
Ron Friedmann,
12 years ago
1 min read
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