Legal Innovation

Canadian Legal Technology: Disrupting or Just Evolving?

Corporate law departments under pressure to cut costs may be the main driver behind a revolution in the provision of legal services, but when it…

Jennifer Brown April 29, 2015

Emerging Contract Technology: Automating the Contract Life-Cycle

It has to be said: the use of technology by transactional lawyers has lagged behind even the notoriously slow adoption of automation by lawyers in…

Kingsley Martin April 29, 2015

Looking Ahead… Welcome (Back) to the New Legal Executive Institute

We are delighted to roll out our new Legal Executive Institute web site. Its fresh look and improved functionality reflect the spirit with which we…

Ralph Baxter April 24, 2015

Is Big Government Looking toward Big Data Too?

We’ve written a lot on the Legal Executive Institute Blog about the need for Big Law (and Small Law, for that matter) to more aggressively…

Gregg Wirth April 23, 2015

Breathing New Life Into Professionalism in the Practice of Law

Something important happened at the Harvard Law School on April 10. More than 100 leaders from across the spectrum of legal service came together to…

Ralph Baxter April 21, 2015

The Emerging Legal Technology Forum Urges Technological Innovations to Improve Delivery of Legal Services

Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute joined with the Stanford Law School to conduct The Emerging Legal Technology Forum last week in New York City. It…

Ralph Baxter April 14, 2015

From the Emerging Legal Technlogy Forum: Technology-led Change in Here and Coming

NEW YORK—Change was definitely in the air at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, being held today in New York City, as Forum Co-Chairs Ralph Baxter…

Gregg Wirth April 09, 2015

Corporate Counsel Should Drive Innovation

Last week, I addressed lawyers and law firms, with a message about their interaction with clients. This week, I address the leaders of corporate law…

Ralph Baxter April 07, 2015

Client-Centric Data Analysis, Part I

Large law firms recognize the importance of client focus. To relate to clients, these firms work to understand their clients’ business and industry. Yet, for…

Dr. Evan Parker April 06, 2015

Legal Tech 2.0: The World We Live in Now

How exactly will technology change the way legal service is delivered? Nearly everyone in law accepts that great change is underway, and that it is…

Ralph Baxter March 24, 2015

The Path to Adoption of New Tools and Methods

The progress of one of the great hopes for advancing legal service has been slower than I expected. I’m referring to the “new entrants” to…

Ralph Baxter March 03, 2015

Video: Firms Should Redesign How They Deliver Legal Services, Says Bradley Arant’s Murdock

John E. Murdock III, Partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, talks to LEI Chairman Ralph Baxter about redesigning legal service delivery. http://youtu.be/DHtwOMflpK8?list=PLg-Lm-KP2_HcQPU-2qc_5WkzRsE7pA2FF  

John Murdock III March 02, 2015