Legal Managed Services

The rise of Microsoft Teams: Opportunities & best practices

This article was co-authored by James Tuvell, Senior Consultant at Fireman & Co., and Lisa Stone, Director of Enterprise Content Management at Fireman & Co.…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 13, 2020

Understanding how the client’s business makes money: A critical step for all lawyers

Amid the current pandemic crisis, the impact felt by law firms and their clients has been great; and this pressure has ratcheted up the necessity…

Nancey Watson September 24, 2020

2020 Legal Market Report: How Innovative Technology is Reshaping the Business & Practice of Law

If the traditional practice of law were a kitchen appliance, it would be a slow cooker with a few basic settings that got the job…

Thomson Reuters Institute September 03, 2020

Reimagining legal operations: The business infrastructure of legal services

It’s strongly evident now that legal operations are taking a more important role in how the delivery of legal services are conceptualized and executed. Indeed,…

Joshua El-Bey August 31, 2020

Why collaboration is (usually) doomed to fail — and how to buck the odds

The economics are straightforward: Those law firms that are able to serve corporate legal buyers in more work types and across more geographic areas can…

Jen Dezso August 24, 2020

The Am Law 200: “Envy and its Discontents”

This 3-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the previous installment of this three-part series analyzing the recently…

Thomson Reuters Institute August 19, 2020

Law Firm Partner Profits: What really stands in the way of profit growth?

Even before the onset of the global pandemic, law firms of all sizes were concerned about how to continue growing their bottom line into the…

Bill Josten August 17, 2020

APIs: The cardiovascular system of the legal platform

Previously, we discussed how platforms create an ecosystem or environment that allow people and businesses to interact and accomplish tasks and ultimately create a network…

Joseph Raczynski August 12, 2020

How will legal operations teams shape the “New Normal” for legal?

The “new normal” is something more to be guessed at than completely understood at this point, as there remains a high degree of uncertainty around…

Bill Josten August 11, 2020

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

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

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