Legal Managed Services

Q&A with Kelley Drye CIO Flournoy: Clients would be ‘Stunned’ by Law Firms’ Software Expenses (Part 1)

Law firms face an increasingly daunting task in purchasing, utilizing and continually updating the software required not just to run the daily operations of the…

Thomson Reuters Institute November 01, 2016

New Kids on the Block: Influx of Millennials Could Remake Corporate Legal Departments, Survey Shows

EAGAN, Minn. — A new survey that gauges perceptions of in-house millennials and explores how they are shaping their workplaces shows that many corporate legal…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 04, 2016

Contract Maturity Model (Part 3): Evolution of Content from One-Offs to Modular Components

This is the third, and last, article in the series of posts on the future of contracting platforms. It focuses on content systems — namely,…

Kingsley Martin July 20, 2016

Innovation Magazine Exclusive: Business Lessons from the Jawbone/Fitbit Patent Wars

Health-related monitoring devices have been around for decades, but the market for personal-fitness monitors designed to be worn 24 hours a day didn’t begin until…

Thomson Reuters Institute June 23, 2016

Contract Maturity Model (Part 1): From One-Off Contracting to Portfolio Management

This is the first in a series of three articles examining how contract creation is evolving to meet the needs of modern business. This initial…

Kingsley Martin June 01, 2016

Performance Measuring – What to Expect from Legal Procurement Professionals

Companies are becoming more sophisticated when it comes to measuring their outside legal counsel’s performance. It always amazes me that law firms do not ask their…

Nancey Watson May 26, 2016

Title III Crowdfunding Rules Offer Law Firms Opportunity in New Market

While the rules implementing retail investment through crowdfunding — Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS Act) — had a slow road into…

Thomson Reuters Institute May 18, 2016

Alt.Legal Podcast with Ralph Baxter: On Becoming an Agent of Change within your Legal Firm

Alt.Legal is a podcast hosted by Joe Borstein and Ed Sohn, the successful columnists of the alt.legal blog on Above the Law.  For their inaugural…

Legal Managed Services May 04, 2016

Building Our Blockchain Future: What Lies Ahead (Part 3)

This is the third and final post in a series about blockchain, an online public ledgering system, and how it will soon significantly impact many…

Joseph Raczynski April 21, 2016

Will a Lean Six Sigma Diet Save Big Law?

There's a growing list of consulting firms and organizations marketing themselves as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) shops aimed at improving legal business operations, such as…

Sean La Roque-Doherty April 07, 2016

Podcast: Cybersecurity Solutions for Midsize Law Firms

About 80% of AmLaw 100 Firms have experienced a data breech, and news of recent law firm breaches that could impact their corporate clients has…

John Remsen, Jr. April 07, 2016

Artificial Intelligence in Law: The State of Play 2016 (Part 2)

The first post in this series discussed current developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generally and its application to law. In this post, we take a…

Michael Mills March 01, 2016