InsideCounsel magazine (9/07) reports on its annual 10 most innovative law departments.   Once again, technology played a big or supporting role at several winners. Highlights from 2007’s Most Innovative…

Legally solid contracts may not be good for the business.  That’s a conclusion in Best Practices: Assessing And Managing Legal Risk in the June 2007 newsletter of International Association for…

What’s better, a bigger pie or a bigger slice?  I am a legal technology consultant by profession but an economist at heart. One reason I did not practice law is…

Corporate Counsel magazine named the General Electric law department as best of the year. Home-grown technology was a key factor the editors considered.  All Systems Go (Corporate Counsel, 4/18/07) reports…

Blogs are now old hat. How many large law firms write blogs?  It turns out that not many. Joy London (of excited utterances) and I have compiled a directory of…

Making lawyers more efficient means clients need to be tougher. I was therefore surprised to see one typically tough customer scale back on a recent innovation.  The headline in LegalWeek.com…

Here’s a great illustration of the difference between human and technology failure.  A friend sent me the following e-mail auto-reply text from a lawyer: “Please note that due to the…