Automated Contracts

CodeX FutureLaw 2021: Computational contracts create a Big Bang in legal

The bleeding edge of the legal industry is now building interfaces at the intersection of code and law through computational contracts. These computational contracts (sometime…

Joseph Raczynski April 12, 2021

Which path for my law firm: Data warehouse or data lake?

Data-driven decision making has become an important topic among law firm leadership as they notice the success of progressive law firms that have established effective…

Todd Painter January 12, 2021

Digital operations platforms in legal operations: A primer on legal marketplace options

This series was co-authored by Kenneth Jones, chief technologist for Tanenbaum Keale, and Jason Moyse, director at Autologyx and principal at Law Made. In the…

Thomson Reuters Institute December 02, 2020

Work from Home weighs heavily on ILTA’s 2020 Annual Legal Technology Survey

It’s out! In a year unlike any of the 30 previous annual surveys, the 2020 International Legal Technology Association's (ILTA's) Annual Survey breaks down the…

Joseph Raczynski November 17, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS: Law firms need to adopt a 21st century mindset, says Salesforces’ Wei Chen

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 October 27, 2020

Algorithmophobia: Overcoming your fear of algorithms and AI

This surprisingly exhaustive catalogue of phobias does not include a fear of algorithms or fear of artificial intelligence. The closest on the list may be…

Dr. Zev J. Eigen October 22, 2020

The “case” for digital operations platforms in legal operations

This series was co-authored by Kenneth Jones, chief technologist for Tanenbaum Keale, and Jason Moyse, director at Autologyx and principal at Law Made. In the…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 21, 2020

Leveraging the cloud in the time of COVID-19: Stories from the storm front

COVID-19 and the social distancing requirements created by the ongoing pandemic forced law firms and legal organizations to re-engineer themselves and find new ways to…

Conrad Jacoby October 20, 2020

The rise of Microsoft Teams: Opportunities & best practices

This article was co-authored by James Tuvell, Senior Consultant at Fireman & Co., and Lisa Stone, Director of Enterprise Content Management at Fireman & Co.…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 13, 2020

Understanding how the client’s business makes money: A critical step for all lawyers

Amid the current pandemic crisis, the impact felt by law firms and their clients has been great; and this pressure has ratcheted up the necessity…

Nancey Watson September 24, 2020

Economic upheaval is an opportunity for “reimagining law firms,” panel says

A months-long pandemic, the largest protest movement in U.S. history, an uncertain economic outlook — or in other words, the perfect context in which to…

Peter Neal August 14, 2020

Legal Geek’s Uncertain Decade: The future of legal technology & digital transformation

By 2030 we will see significant lawyer work being done by machines. As exponential growth of technology consumes to world, the legal industry is especially…

Joseph Raczynski August 03, 2020