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Best Practices to Drive Lawyer Adoption of New Legal Technology

Legal organizations spend an estimated $3 billion dollars on technology, according to a recent study by Mitratech. Clients demand that law firms focus on knowledge…

Jean O'Grady July 15, 2019

Forum Magazine: Canadian GCs Forge Innovative Paths

In Canadian Lawyer magazine’s fifth annual Innovatio Awards, the general counsel and the legal departments for Canadian companies Toronto-Dominion Bank and Points International Ltd. were…

Jennifer Brown June 12, 2019

Augment 2019: Professional Services Laying the Groundwork for AI in Practice

CHICAGO — The Legal Executive Institute’s Augment 2019 conference stuck a finger in the wind of how far artificial intelligence and its ilk have transformed…

David Curle June 11, 2019

A Lucrative Micro-Niche: The AgTech Practice

In our continuing series on lucrative micro-niche practice areas for lawyers, we examined how technology is dramatically changing the face of agriculture and how some…

Patrick J. McKenna June 06, 2019

Contracting Technology: A Few Considerations When You’re Ready to Buy

Contracts are the lifeblood of every business. They have a tremendous impact not only on an organization’s bottom line and brand promise but also on…

Peggy Chang Barber May 22, 2019

UC Hastings’ Inaugural LexLab Demo Day Showcases Legal Tech Startups

SAN FRANCISCO — As the legal industry becomes an increasingly prominent vertical in the tech startup world, some forward-thinking law schools are expanding their curricula…

Joe Green May 14, 2019

CURIOUS MINDS: Talking to Prof. Dan Katz about Complex Systems in Law

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

Rose D. Ors April 01, 2019

Advancements in Outside Counsel Guidelines Compliance Technology

Given the recent trends around Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) becoming more common while also becoming more complex and demanding, you would think there would be…

Toby Brown March 22, 2019

Understanding the Competition: As the Big Four Continue to Make In-Roads into Legal, Large Law Firms Need to Determine a Strategy to Compete

The Big Four accounting firms continue to ratchet up their abilities to compete with large law firms in several areas of client service, leaving those…

Gregg Wirth February 05, 2019

Lessons from Legaltech: It’s Not About Legal Tech

NEW YORK — Legaltech, the trade show at the heart of ALM’s Legalweek event in New York City each year, began with a “state of…

David Curle February 04, 2019

Ones to Watch: Tom Yoxall, Litigation Partner & Executive Committee Member, and Eric Boyd, Director of Litigation Support, at Locke Lord

In a new blog series, “Ones to Watch”, David Curle, Director of the Technology and Innovation Platform for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, explores where…

David Curle December 10, 2018

Ones to Watch: Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer, and Kate Orr, Senior Innovation Counsel, for Orrick

In a new blog series, “Ones to Watch”, David Curle, Director of the Technology and Innovation Platform for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, explores where…

David Curle December 06, 2018