Artificial Lawyer reports that the global law firm Allen & Overy, always on the forefront of law-related technology, has just released three new “legal and RegTech” apps through its growing online subscription service, aosphere. The new apps, created using the Neota Logic platform, offer tools to clients with cross-border legal issues in three
Change Can Be Easier than We Think
In my years as a managing partner, I believed that the most difficult challenge of a leader in a law firm was to inculcate change. This Harvard Business Review article – which indicates that such indices as ease of implementation and the careful deployment of friction are essential to successful change initiatives – would suggest
Nurture Effective Leadership Where You Need It the Most
I developed the “Stealth Discrimination Model” several years ago to assist managing partners and others responsible for leadership in law firms who (like most of us) simply
Study Correlates Fixed Fees with an Entrepreneurial Approach to Practice
A 2016 study by LexisNexis, reviewed by Neil Rose in an article in the UK online publication Legal Futures, found that small firms (fewer than 20 fee-earners) that offered fixed-fee billing to clients were frequently ones that could be described as “entrepreneurial” for other reasons. In contrast to firms of comparable size they were,
Keeping “Innovation” Meaningful
Early this week, law.com published a list of seven firms that its editors believe have “moved the needle on innovation in 2017.”
The leading-edge advances highlighted in the article make for interesting reading, and I encourage you to check them out.
They include:
- Bryan Cave’s encouragement of associates to propose new technology applications that could
Should your Firm Be “Baking In” Legal AI?
The informative legal automation news site Artificial Lawyer reports that major international business firm Addleshaw Goddard (AG), based in the UK, has appointed Kerry Westland head of its new 150-member Innovation and Legal Technology team. The firm has been incorporating technology into its operations increasingly since 2010, when it established a group with responsibility for
Failure to Encrypt Email Can Put Lawyers at Risk
An editorial in the Akron Legal News reminds lawyers of the urgency of securing their law-related email. In May, 2017, the American Bar Association issued Formal Opinion #477R, which suggests guidelines for “Securing Communication of Protected Client Information.” The ABA opinion points out that:
A lawyer generally may transmit information relating to the representation
Listen to Microsoft’s Assistant GC for Two Minutes
Watch this video, featuring Lucy Bassli of Microsoft, which I ran across while researching a recent article about Addleshaw Goddard’s approach to legal technology. The topic: “Can a law firm drive innovation or is it up to in-house counsel to do this?” (Just click on the image.)
First of all, note that two minutes is
Social Media: The Biggest and Most Mysterious Phenomenon of our Time
There are some surprising statistics in the video I am posting here. Have you considered, for example, that “Today’s college students have never licked a stamp”? Did you know that “The fastest growing demographic on Twitter is grandparents”?
Like much other information on the Internet, “Socialnomics 2017” – a 2.5 minute video by digital
Smart Contracts and Crowdsourced Juries
A new start-up company, appropriately named jury.online, is planning to crowdsource juries for the arbitration of contract disputes.
The company, which is based in Estonia, describes itself as “The Future of Dispute Resolution,” although an article on Artificial Lawyer points out that its approach to jury selection raises a number of legal questions, among