I was shocked last autumn when Rocket Lawyer, the legal technology company backed by Google Ventures, scored a deal with the ABA to test its services. Now I am fascinated by what brought this experiment to a halt.
A new company with a virtual base in my home neighbourhood (by which I mean the island of Anguilla in the British West Indies: Note the “ai” in the company’s url: http://beagle.ai) has recently attracted attention from such media outlets as Fast Company,
I am pleased to draw the attention of readers of this blog to the most recent issue of Edge International Communiqué (EIC).
The issue features articles by two of my colleagues at Edge International. Sam Coupland offers important advice on how to assess the business value of a law firm, and Ed Wesemann probes
The battle to outfit lawyers with useful virtual assistants is heating up. A few weeks ago we reported on the evolution of IBM Einstein for use in legal settings. Now, Riverview Law, one of the largest legal-services and private practice law firms in the
In a recent article in Bloomberg BNA: Big Law Business, Susie Lees, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Allstate Corporation, gets specific about how Allstate selects and retains outside law firms for the work its massive legal department can’t handle internally.
Lees’s comments about how Allstate works with outside counsel makes interesting and valuable
Legal-issues writer Elizabeth Olson tackled the subject of the legal profession’s generational divide in “Graying Firms Wrestle with Making Room for Younger Lawyers,” an article recently published
An article by Peter Bregman in the Harvard Business Review will interest anyone faced with making a decision from among a range of equally appealing (or unappealing) options – which, of course, happens to most of us all the time. Such deliberations can range from the relatively trivial, like deciding what to have for lunch,
I am pleased to draw the attention of readers of this blog to the most recent issue of Edge International Communiqué (EIC).
The issue features articles by two of my colleagues at Edge International, as well as one that I wrote. Nick Jarrett-Kerr offers
Fresh from defeating its human opponents on Jeopardy, IBM Watson has now begun to demonstrate its artificial-intelligence capacities in the real world. Watson and its counterparts are already being used in such fields as medicine, education, security and
