Recent News, an LPO Article, and 4 Video Interviews
I am writing a round-up post to highlight recent news, a recent article I wrote about LPO, and four video interviews I conducted. The State of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO). I wrote an article on the state of LPO, Client market power means continuing cost-cutting,...
Open Letter to General Counsels: Five Imperatives for 2012
Dear General Counsel: You face ever-increasing pressure to control and predict cost. Here are steps I suggest you take to accomplish this: 1. DETERMINE WHAT PROBLEM YOU NEED TO SOLVE Are you trying to reduce risk? Reduce cost? Improve service to your internal clients? Gain...
Richard Susskind + Mark Cohen on Digital Transformation + Legal Tech
This is a live blog post of a 90-minutes video discussion with Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen about “Digital transformation and the legal function” and “The future of legal technology”. It is hosted by Legal Geek and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, UnitedLex, and iManage. This is the fourth of a four-part...
The Illuminate Story: The Global Deployment of Next Generation Enterprise Search
At its core, knowledge management is about finding lawyers who or documents or matters that can answer another lawyer’s questions about law, transactions, regulatory matters, judges, investors, clients, or industries. With finding so central to KM, software that searches collections of documents and other data...
Richard Susskind + Mark Cohen on Educating + Skills for Legal Professionals
This is a live blog post of a 75-minutes video discussion with Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen about “UK vs US – the next decade” and “Skills and education for legal professionals in the 2020s”. It is hosted by Legal Geek and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, UnitedLex, and iManage....
Microsoft’s Trusted Advisor Forum on Innovation – The Virtual Remix
This is a live blog post of Microsoft’s Trusted Advisor Forum on Innovation webinar on 17 June 2020. As with all my live posts, please forgive any typos or errors of understanding. I post this as the session ends. The full description of the event...
Legal Tech in Love – Married Couple with Separate Start-Ups
[Note: As of 27 October 2021, InCloudCounsel changed its name to Ontra. This note added 29 Jan 2022.] In networking for a new job, I recently met (remotely) Troy Pospisil, the Founder and CEO of InCloudCounsel. Two surprises stood out in speaking with him. First,...
Richard Susskind + Mark Cohen on Clients + ALSP
This is a live blog post of a 75-minutes video discussion with Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen about clients and ALSP (alternative legal service provider). It is hosted by Legal Geek and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, UnitedLex, and iManage. Lisa Hart Shephard, Acritas founder and now part of TR,...