Legal Innovation

The Imperative for Change

Today’s legal service market creates a true imperative for change. As a result of factors discussed in earlier blog posts, over time the market will…

Ralph Baxter December 03, 2014

BigLaw Needs to Pick Up the Pace

As I wrote three weeks ago, new tools and new methods make possible a bright new world in law. Achieving that world will require change…

Ralph Baxter November 18, 2014

Q&A Interview: Evolution is Happening in Law Firm Pricing, Says Cisco’s Harmon

Steve Harmon, the Senior Director of Legal Services for Cisco, participated in a recent Legal Executive Institute panel on “Disruptive Changes in the Legal Market”.…

Steve Harmon November 18, 2014

Law Firms Can Not be Silent about Social Media Pitfalls

Anyone paying attention to the news can see that social media is an ethical minefield. Attorneys, firm managers and administrators who use platforms like Facebook,…

Stuart Teicher November 12, 2014

Law Firm Leaders Forum: Where We’re Headed Now

We conducted our 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum (the LFL Forum)  last week in New York. As it has been from the beginning, it…

Ralph Baxter November 12, 2014

Will Companies Adopt Potentially Cost-Saving Technologies In Litigation?

Reports that Microsoft has signed a letter of intent to acquire Equivio, a small provider of search and analytics software for use in litigation, for…

Gareth Evans November 06, 2014

Video: Creating an Innovative Environment is Vital for Law Firms, Says Shearman & Sterling’s Johnsen

Kenneth Johnsen, COO & CFO of Shearman & Sterling LLP, discusses his panel on fostering innovations at law firms at the 13th Annual Thomson Reuters…

Kenneth Johnsen November 05, 2014

The Best of Times… The Worst of Times

The current legal landscape presents stark contrasts—it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, as Dickens would have put it.…

Ralph Baxter November 05, 2014

‘A Bright New World Lies Ahead’ for Law and its Practitioners

This is my first substantive blog. Not just for Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute, but ever. I spent the last 40 years in the delivery…

Ralph Baxter October 29, 2014

Welcome to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute

We seek to make the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute (LEI) a comprehensive, practical, and accessible resource for all those who lead and manage the…

Ralph Baxter October 20, 2014

Navigating Today’s Complicated and Fragmented Legal Ecosystem

Not too long ago, most commercial legal practice was something carried out between a narrowly defined set of players: corporations (or other types of organizations),…

David Curle October 20, 2014