Data & Metrics

Data Standards: Helping Your Legal Tech Applications Talk To Each Other

Today, legal technology is proliferating by quantum leaps. Legal organizations, including law firms and in-house law departments, have access to an abundance of new technology…

Legal Executive Institute February 14, 2020

2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market: A Closer Look at the Cost of Declining Productivity

The 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market, from Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession…

Joe Blackwood February 13, 2020

Marketing Partner Forum: Addressing Client Attrition Through Data Analytics

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — During the opening remarks last month at the 27th Annual Marketing Partner Forum, a live poll showed that the 2020 trend within…

Jennifer Roberts February 10, 2020

Peer Monitor Economic Index Slips in 2019’s Fourth Quarter

The large law firm market has seen arguably the best two-year period since the end of the recession. Indeed, 2019 marked the first two-year stretch…

Legal Executive Institute February 03, 2020

White Paper: Law Firm Leader Perceptions of the Value of Technology

Law firm leaders who are engaged in making decisions about the technology that’s implemented at their firms seem to uniformly understand that such technology will…

Legal Executive Institute January 27, 2020

Addressing the Problem of Uncategorized Legacy Data

It’s easy enough to enable (and require) document profiling for new documents created within the system, but it is a challenging and seemingly intractable problem…

Conrad Jacoby January 23, 2020

Opportunity Knocks: Balancing Knowledge-Sharing Needs with Security Requirements

When a client hires a law firm, there is an expectation that the firm will leverage its collective knowledge for the benefit of the client.…

Gwyn McAlpine January 21, 2020

2020 Acritas Global Elite Brand Index Show Increasing Global Commitment of Top Firms

The just-released annual Acritas 2020 Global Elite Brand Index underscores how clients’ needs have become increasingly global over the last decade and how top law…

Legal Executive Institute January 21, 2020

The Lessons of Atrium: Innovation is Messy as Borders Blur Between Law Firms & Tech Companies

The overlap between software companies and law firms may be spreading, but not without casualties. The latest may be the many lawyers that had until…

Peter Colin January 16, 2020

2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market: From Incremental Change to Revolutionary Innovation

Ever heard of the “Fosbury Flop”? Whether you have or not, if you’ve watched the sport of high jumping anytime in the past 50 years…

Bill Josten January 06, 2020

Law Firms Feeling Headaches from Outside Counsel Guidelines, Struggling to Comply, Report Says

For law firms and their clients, Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) are simply a fact of life. More than 80% of corporations reported they use some…

Bill Josten December 17, 2019

PMI Q3 Analysis: The Magnification of Demand

The market for legal services produced impressive demand growth in this year’s third quarter, seeing a 2.4% jump in hours worked compared to the third…

Isaac Brooks December 02, 2019