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The Advent of the Legal Practice’s Micro-Niche, Part 2

In the first part of this blog series, we looked at the potential growth of micro-niches — highly specialized, sub-sectors of larger legal practices or…

Patrick J. McKenna October 18, 2018

2018 Emerging Legal Technology Forum: Law Firms May Be Wary of the Cloud Now, but That Will Change

TORONTO, Ont. — Why have law firms resisted the move to cloud technology and what are the benefits they're missing out on? Recently, a panel…

Sameena Kluck October 18, 2018

The 17th Annual Law Firm COO & CFO Forum Preview: How the Clients’ Voice is Driving Change

“Nothing is so powerful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” —    Victor Frankenstein Thus, in melancholic tone, muses Victor Frankenstein, the…

Legal Executive Institute October 16, 2018

Forum Magazine: Siemens Canada Teams with a Law Firm to Test-Drive AI

Richard Brait and Kathy Orysiuk are always looking for new ways to deliver greater value in-house at Siemens Canada, part of the German global manufacturing…

Jennifer Brown October 15, 2018

Forum Magazine: Small Law Firm Spotlight – Girard Bengali, APC “Be Upfront with Clients About Pricing”

When business litigation lawyers are asked to give up their hourly fee and instead prosecute cases under a contingency arrangement, they may have trouble making…

Gregg Wirth October 12, 2018

More Tech, More Diverse Staff & More Work: Dutch GCs Survey Showing Growing Role of In-House Lawyers

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — General counsel in the Netherlands are becoming more tech-savvy and more willing to turn to alternative legal service providers to get…

Legal Executive Institute October 11, 2018

Using Partnership, Lawyers Without Borders Brings e-Learning to Africa

A new article on Thomson Reuters’ Answers On website details how Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) used a partnership to bring e-learning tools to Africa to solve…

Tad Simons October 09, 2018

Legal Project Management — What Is It and Why Should You Care?

In almost every article in the legal press over the past few years, the term legal project management (LPM) has been mentioned. It has been…

Bill Josten October 09, 2018

Forum Magazine: The Value-Feedback Loop — How 3M Forged Better Relationships with Its Law Firms

Value, like beauty, is largely in the eye of the beholder. This can create quite a challenge within the legal community, though, for several reasons.…

Bill Josten October 08, 2018

A Tale of Two Partnerships: Collaboration Models for Law Firms and Legal Tech Startups

TORONTO, Ont. — For legal tech startups, breaking into the law firm market can be daunting. However, by establishing partnerships with major international law firms,…

Joe Green October 04, 2018

The Advent of the Legal Practice’s Micro-Niche, Part 1

I have a new word that I share with lawyers whenever I’m speaking at conferences — “Infobesity.” It is meant to help them try to…

Patrick J. McKenna October 04, 2018

Forum Magazine: Legal Technology and Innovation from a European Perspective: Interview with Bucerius Law School’s Markus Hartung

Markus Hartung is a lawyer and mediator, and he directs the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. Bucerius…

David Curle October 03, 2018