Automated Contracts

Legal design, not legal tech, best enables access to justice

Charles Dickens’ Bleak House begins in the legal world — at the Lincoln’s Inn in London. Smoke rises from the chimneys, mixing with waterside pollution…

Anders Spile May 26, 2020

Process improvement & project management in the new “new normal”

While I have been going on in several blog posts, podcasts and recent speaking engagements, about the renewed need for process improvement and project management…

Frederick J. Esposito, Jr., MBA, CLM May 07, 2020

Curious Minds: Legal needs to overcome its “imagination problem,” says Olga V. Mack, CEO at Parley Pro

We continue our monthly column, “Curious Minds”, created by Rose Ors to tap into the minds of legal innovators, disrupters, and out-of-the-box thinkers to learn…

Rose D. Ors May 04, 2020

A Big Decision on Strategy that Law Firms Need to Make Now (Part 1)

In my role in academia and consulting, I get to work with law firm partners from around the world and to meet and talk to…

Kevin Doolan March 31, 2020

Legal Value Network Launch Highlights Growing Collaboration Among Business of Law Professionals

In the decade-plus since the Great Recession, many law firms have wisely invested in business professionals who can provide a wide range of services to…

Kelly Harbour March 12, 2020

Does Your Law Firm Need a Data Quality Specialist?

There is a lot of chatter these days around the increasing use of data to inform and drive business decisions within law firms. To that,…

Christopher Ende February 24, 2020

Plain Language: Because it’s ALL About the Audience

Before you write an email to a client or create website marketing content, do you stop and consider the audience for your materials? Or do…

Janet Arrowood February 24, 2020

Designing Smart Contracts – Washington, DC

Technological ingenuity has fundamentally changed the way lawyers and their clients do business. In an era where rampant concerns over data governance and consumer privacy…

Legal Executive Institute January 28, 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

Fighting Back Fast: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that…

Don Philmlee January 13, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS: “Success Is Bringing People Along” — A Conversation with Jason Barnwell, Assistant GC at Microsoft

We continue our monthly column, “Curious Minds”, created by Rose Ors to tap into the minds of legal innovators, disrupters, and out-of-the-box thinkers to learn…

Rose D. Ors January 06, 2020

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: Speaking with Chris Young, GC of Ironclad

We continue our monthly feature, “Upfront & Personal”, a column created by Rose Ors that brings “the person behind the title” to the forefront in…

Rose D. Ors December 09, 2019