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Legalweek 2019: ALSPs Altering Legal Landscape and Clients Are Responding, New Report Shows

NEW YORK — The legal industry is being significantly impacted by a growing force of alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) that are offering a wider…

Gregg Wirth February 11, 2019

Legalweek 2019: Mining Your Data for Insight, Decision-Making and Differentiation

NEW YORK — Becoming more data-driven and analytical is a laudatory goal for any law firm; and as the vast amounts of data from a…

Legal Executive Institute February 06, 2019

Understanding the Competition: As the Big Four Continue to Make In-Roads into Legal, Large Law Firms Need to Determine a Strategy to Compete

The Big Four accounting firms continue to ratchet up their abilities to compete with large law firms in several areas of client service, leaving those…

Gregg Wirth February 05, 2019

Augment 2019

If Hollywood blockbusters and US popular culture are any indication, judgment day--or the rise of the machines--augurs the collapse (perhaps demise) of the human race.…

Legal Executive Institute February 04, 2019

Lessons from Legaltech: It’s Not About Legal Tech

NEW YORK — Legaltech, the trade show at the heart of ALM’s Legalweek event in New York City each year, began with a “state of…

David Curle February 04, 2019

One Person at a Time: Transforming Legal Work at K&L Gates

This is the age of the grand innovation initiative, as many law firms install innovation czars with titles such as Chief Innovation Officer. Certainly, that…

David Curle January 29, 2019

Alternative Legal Service Providers Report 2019: ALSP Market Experiencing Rapid Growth & Expanded Use

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, WASHINGTON, D.C., & LONDON — The market for alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) is seeing rapid growth at a rate the is exceeding…

Legal Executive Institute January 28, 2019

Project Management Nuts and Bolts — Notes from the Field

“Practice Innovations” is a quarterly, online newsletter that examines best practices and innovations in law firm information and knowledge management. In this installment, the author…

Elaine Egan January 28, 2019

Walking the Tighter Rope: The Art of In-House Lawyering Today, or What About the Rule Against Perpetuities?

This post was authored by PD Villarreal, former Senior VP of Global Litigation at GlaxoSmithKline. Among corporate executives today there are two competing images of…

Legal Executive Institute January 25, 2019

Marketing Partner Forum 2019: The Time of Great Change in the Legal Industry Isn’t Coming… It’s Here

DANA POINT, Calif. — The time of a head-in-the-sand approach to reacting to the waves of change buffeting the legal industry has — fortunately and…

Gregg Wirth January 24, 2019

Using the RAE Framework to Build the “Better Basics” that Clients Actually Want

"Practice Innovations" is a quarterly, online newsletter that examines best practices and innovations in law firm information and knowledge management. In this installment, the author…

Sam Davenport January 24, 2019

Inspire.Legal™: A New Legal Tech Conference Laser-Focused on Problems, Not Just Solutions

Sometimes the most impactful events at major legaltech trade shows happen outside the event itself. Just before ILTACON 2018 was officially underway, for example, the…

Joe Green January 23, 2019