Technology

Video: Room for Improvement in Lawyers’ Utilization of Big Data & e-Discovery, says Drinker Biddle’s Baron

The theme is as old as history itself—technology is changing our world, but how can we catch-up? In the video clip below, Greg McPolin, COO, Legal…

Gregory McPolin May 07, 2015

Georgetown’s Iron Tech Lawyers: Delivering Legal Services with a Multidisciplinary Approach

WASHINGTON, D.C.—For all the negativity around legal education these days, it seems that some law students are having a little more fun than others, and…

David Curle April 30, 2015

Canadian Legal Technology: Disrupting or Just Evolving?

Corporate law departments under pressure to cut costs may be the main driver behind a revolution in the provision of legal services, but when it…

Jennifer Brown April 29, 2015

Emerging Contract Technology: Automating the Contract Life-Cycle

It has to be said: the use of technology by transactional lawyers has lagged behind even the notoriously slow adoption of automation by lawyers in…

Kingsley Martin April 29, 2015

Is Big Government Looking toward Big Data Too?

We’ve written a lot on the Legal Executive Institute Blog about the need for Big Law (and Small Law, for that matter) to more aggressively…

Gregg Wirth April 23, 2015

The Emerging Legal Technology Forum Urges Technological Innovations to Improve Delivery of Legal Services

Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute joined with the Stanford Law School to conduct The Emerging Legal Technology Forum last week in New York City. It…

Ralph Baxter April 14, 2015

From the Emerging Legal Technlogy Forum: Technology-led Change in Here and Coming

NEW YORK—Change was definitely in the air at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, being held today in New York City, as Forum Co-Chairs Ralph Baxter…

Gregg Wirth April 09, 2015

Legal Tech 2.0: The World We Live in Now

How exactly will technology change the way legal service is delivered? Nearly everyone in law accepts that great change is underway, and that it is…

Ralph Baxter March 24, 2015

The Path to Adoption of New Tools and Methods

The progress of one of the great hopes for advancing legal service has been slower than I expected. I’m referring to the “new entrants” to…

Ralph Baxter March 03, 2015

Q&A Interview: Survey Shows Quarter of GCs Dealt with Data Breaches, Says ACC’s Richardson

Veta T. Richardson, President & CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) spoke with Legal Executive Institute about the ACC’s recently released Chief Legal…

Veta Richardson March 02, 2015

Firms Should Examine Pros and Cons of Moving to a Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is certainly one of the biggest areas of interest in today’s information technology software market. Many industries including the legal field are gravitating…

Sandra Roberts February 25, 2015

This is the Boat: Stop Waiting for the Next Big Thing

Legal Lean, held on February 21 at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, had a little different feel than many of the other “Future of…

David Curle February 24, 2015