This article was originally published on L21 Law Twenty One and has been republished. Modern Law Magazine in the UK asked me to submit an article for their January 2020 issue, which featured a host of luminaries discussing the near and mid-term future of the legal marketplace. You can find the current issue here, with my article …
This article was originally published on Above The Law and has been republished. The 2019 Legal Technology Survey Report raises the specter of the law office of the past. “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” goes the epigram attributed to 19th century French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. I could not help …
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This article was originally published on the Australasian Lawyer and has been republished. In-house legal teams are handling larger volumes and complexity of work and are looking to technology to help. Rather than outsourcing more work to external law firms, general counsel are focusing on how tech can drive efficiency within their own legal teams …
This was originally published on Above The Law and has been republished. Some of the most intelligent, interesting, and high-achieving people I know are lawyers. Yet, few people would describe most law firms as anything close to “innovative.” In my lifelong quest to encourage innovation in law, I had a conversation with Alicia Ryan, who …
This article was originally published on the Harvard Business Review and has been republished. The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing right now is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors — it’s all of them, all at once. And these forces …
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This article was originally published on Forbes and has been republished. If “Money makes the world go ‘round,” then the legal world is spinning as never before. Law has been big business for decades, but only recently has significant venture capital, private equity, and entrepreneur money been pumped into the legal sector. Last year saw …
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This article was originally published on Above the Law and has been republished. As the gap between technology adopters and their less savvy counterparts continues to widen, we’re likely to see some striation in the legal tech market. It’s no secret that the market for legal technology is becoming more saturated by the day (for …
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The legal services profession is slowly but surely waking up to the potential of new technologies to disrupt and transform, says Katie Chung, assistant director at private equity firm Dunedin. In a profession characterised by tradition and convention, change may feel uncomfortable. But law firms able to harness the benefits of new technologies now have an …
Travers Smith joined a growing list of law firms creating legal tech tools, but unlike their counterparts, it’s providing the coding to use and edit its email management tool for free. Usually when law firms develop legal technology, either it’s to make a profit or it’s free to further the firm’s branding as a legal …
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By Bob Ambrogi on Lawsitesblog.com For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.2 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. I …
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