Legal Innovation

What are the best legal operations use cases supported by app development platforms?

In the first part of this series, we discussed some of the potential value propositions of enterprise software vendor app development (App Dev) platforms within…

Kenneth Jones August 06, 2020

Law School Innovators: 5 insights for effectively teaching legal research during the pandemic

During the pandemic, how can law schools keep classes productive and engaging with the shift to online learning? A recent webinar, Teaching Legal Research in…

Brooke Stokke August 05, 2020

What the heck is a legal platform & why does it matter now?

In the past, I’ve spoke about a possible tsunami of change within the legal industry. It is something I have been carefully watching for several…

Joseph Raczynski August 04, 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

What law firms need to learn from Millennials & COVID-19

For years, millennial attorneys have asked, cajoled, and failed to get their law firms to loosen the reins on upgrading new technology and allowing them…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams July 30, 2020

Law department procurement: Is buying legal services the same as buying laptops?

For years now, corporate law departments have been asked to work with their companies’ procurement or purchasing departments. Most general counsel (GCs) and chief operating…

Audrey Rubin July 29, 2020

Managing the teleworking office

Over the past four months, and with only limited advance preparation, organizations all over the United States embarked on an unprecedented experiment in distributed, remote…

Conrad Jacoby July 28, 2020

Is the Am Law 200 even a “category?”

This 3-part blog series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In our reflections on the release of the 2020 Am…

Legal Executive Institute July 27, 2020

Artificial intelligence: Minding the gap between hype & performance

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have held law firms, legal software vendors, and the legal press in thrall over the past few years. But has success…

Jeff Rovner July 23, 2020

ON LEADERSHIP: “Leaders need to listen more than talk,” says John Alessio, Managing Partner of Procopio

We continue our monthly column, On Leadership, created by Rose Ors for Thomson Reuters. Each month will feature conversations with law firm Chief Executive Officers and…

Rose D. Ors July 22, 2020

The current status of the (virtual) courts

Likely the single most salient after-effect of the current pandemic on the legal landscape is its impact on the courts. Previously, the variance of their…

Joseph Raczynski July 22, 2020

App development platforms as a legal service offering

To some within the legal technology field, the value of enterprise software vendor app development platforms is not widely appreciated. This is a function of…

Kenneth Jones July 20, 2020