Legal Managed Services

Artificial Intelligence in Law: The State of Play 2016 (Part 1)

Google Plays Go, Wins! No, that’s not another unpublished Dr. Seuss book. It’s the dramatic outcome of artificial intelligence research at Google’s Deep Mind subsidiary,…

Michael Mills February 23, 2016

LegalTech NY 2016: Is the Legal Industry Getting the Most from its Technology?

NEW YORK — Last week’s LegalTech New York 2016 saw a heavy emphasis on the potentials and pitfalls of current legal technology — especially ediscovery…

Gregg Wirth February 08, 2016

Is Your eDiscovery Solution Causing You Pain?

In a two-part series of blog posts, Thomson Reuters writer Jeremy Byellin examines the state of ediscovery — the monumental growth the sector is seeing…

Jeremy Byellin February 02, 2016

Will Lawyers Lead or Follow? Some Speculation About Access to Justice in the US and Canada

Access to justice is a serious problem, especially in North America. The World Justice Project 2015 results demonstrate that when it comes to access to…

December 16, 2015

White Paper: Important Considerations for Mid-Range E-Discovery Data Collection

Data collection during e-discovery is critically important because a significant number of court sanctions are the result of inadequate or improper data collection. A new…

Thomson Reuters Institute December 07, 2015

Is the Wickedly Long Train of E-Discovery Finally Breaking Up?

The e-discovery space seems surreal. It is a huge business for everyone but the consumers of legal services—namely, companies. For them it is just a…

August 26, 2015

Solving the Profitability Problem

While overall demand for legal services is increasing, the share of corporate legal department spend going to large law firms is declining. The recent Great…

Legal Managed Services July 16, 2015

Is Big Law Running Out of Work? What Excess Capacity Really Tells Us about the Future of Legal Services

Citing the recent annual Altman Weil survey of law firm leaders, some commentators have interpreted the respondents’ complaints about too many lawyers in the marketplace…

June 24, 2015

State and Local Governments: Unlikely Supporters of ODR

Innovation often takes place in waves, and the strongest, most prevalent one of our generation is without a doubt that of communication, specifically the Internet.…

Loic Coutelier June 11, 2015

Top 10 e-Discovery Trends in the U.S. in 2015

The overarching theme for 2015 in e-discovery will be continuity. It is highly unlikely that the market will develop game-changing, net-new e-discovery innovation, but—as is…

Edward Sohn May 21, 2015

For Richer or for Poorer? What Does the New “PPL” Metric Tell Us?

The American Lawyer magazine published this week its annual statistics on the 100 largest American law firms. For the first time in a decade it…

May 06, 2015