Wall Street Traders Trust Computers, Why Don’t Lawyers?
A hot legal topic is predictive coding in e-discovery. In the automated approach to reviewing discovery documents for responsiveness, computers do much of the work instead of armies of humans…
Can Lawyers Learn to Love Numbers?
A front-page article in the Friday New York Times raises the issue of the divide between science and humanities. Lurking here a lesson for lawyers. In 500 Billion Words, New…
Surprises in the 2010 AmLaw Tech Survey
The latest American Lawyer Technology Survey is out. Cloudy Forecast in the Am Law Tech Survey 2010 finds that BigLaw IT budgets are still tight. My take is that there…
Can Law Factory and Bet the Farm Co-Exist Under One Roof?
Can a “law factory” and “bet the farm” approach to law practice co-exist under one roof? As law firms adapt to falling demand and price pressure, that question is increasingly…
Law Factory versus Bet the Farm Firm – learning from business
At the 2010 International Legal Technology Conference session “A New View of the Automated Law Firm”, my co-panelists and I discussed how changing market dynamics and technology might force firms…
The Inside Counsel Law Department Innovation Winners
The September issue of Inside Counsel presents its annual “IC 10”, 2010 IC 10 Winners Exemplify Innovation, winners for law department innovation. In this post, I summarize and comment on…
AmLaw 2010 Law Librarian Survey – Interesting but Not Surprising
American Lawyer magazine has just released its 2010 large law firm library survey. The results are interesting but not surprising. Law Librarian Survey 2010: More Bang, Less Bucks writes-up the…
Managing Large Law Firm Staff in the New Normal
Large law firms will almost certainly not return pre-2008-crash economics. BigLaw will remain immensely profitable but firms will need to manage themselves more effectively. And this includes how they staff…
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