Big Data

Data Analytics: Driving value at the intersection of internal and external data

What a year 2020 was, to say the least. The legal industry was caught off-guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in redundancies, salary cuts, receivable…

Glenn LaForce January 21, 2021

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

Making Heads or Tails of the California Consumer Privacy Act

Many believed and hoped the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect January 1, 2020, would be a saving grace piece of legislation…

Daniel Garrie February 26, 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

Improving Your Legal Operations with the SALI Legal Matter Specification Standard

Since the great recession, large clients and their law firms have been pressed to provide more consistent, predictable and transparent delivery of value-based pricing for…

Adam Stock July 19, 2019

A Lucrative Micro-Niche: Deep Learning

In our continuing series on lucrative micro-niche practice areas for lawyers, we examine deep learning and how artificial intelligence and big data can combine to give…

Patrick J. McKenna July 10, 2019

The Rise of Next Generation CI

"Practice Innovations" is a quarterly, online newsletter that examines best practices and innovations in law firm information and knowledge management with an eye toward better…

Marcie Borgal Shunk January 22, 2019

Law Firms Must Focus on Digital Strategy to Address Worries over Business Model and Hyper-Competition

Even as law firms enjoy their recent uptick in demand growth and the momentum that comes with it, firm leaders are still expressing frustration over…

Thomson Reuters Institute January 15, 2019

Forum Magazine: Building a Data-Driven Practice in 5 Steps

The practice of law, like many other fields, is characterized by an overwhelming volume of data and by the speed at which that data is…

David Curle September 27, 2018

Had the Time of My Life: Data Management’s Tools of the Trade

Data and reporting requirements associated with information repositories constructed by professional services firms such as law firms are burgeoning. Everyone, law firms and clients alike,…

Kenneth Jones September 26, 2018

Big Data and the Evolution of the Legal Ecosystem: Four Keys to Unlocking the Promise of Big Data

REDMOND, Wash. — The potential and the reality of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, regulatory technology (RegTech) and the like are driving a seismic shift in…

David Curran November 17, 2017