This article was originally published on Law Sites and has been republished. In legal technology, it was a decade of tumult and upheaval, bringing changes that will forever transform the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. Feisty startups took on established behemoths. The cloud dropped rain on legacy products. Mobile tech untethered lawyers. …

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This article was originally published on Legal Cheek and has been republished. If you plan to be a litigator, you should know that most disputes in the future will be resolved in online courts rather than in physical hearings. Other than in high value and complex cases, oral advocacy will diminish in significance as the years …

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This article was originally published on Attorney At Law and has been republished. Today’s lawyers don’t need to fear being replaced—at least not by robots. They should, however, fear being outpaced (and eventually replaced) by peers who have effectively harnessed and deployed AI-powered legal tech. Early adopters of AI legal technology stand to benefit by reducing …

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This article was originally published on Forbes and has been republished. This is the age of the customer. The asymmetrical advantage that sellers long held over buyers is gone. Consumers have access to market information and choice that has transformed the buy-sell dynamic. Social media provides them with a reference source and a voice. The balance …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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