Litigation

The court must go on: Lessons learned on conducting virtual mediations

Amid the pandemic that has disrupted so many aspects of our lives, our nation’s courts have risen to the occasion, embracing virtual hearings of all…

Gina Jurva October 26, 2020

Tech-Enabled A2J: How tech is helping pro se litigants navigate the courts

In our ongoing column, Tech-Enabled A2J, Kristen Sonday, co-founder & COO of Paladin, takes a look at how legal start-ups and legal technology innovations are impacting the…

Kristen Sonday August 17, 2020

The rising profile of the Corporate Security Executive

This blog post was written by Michael Gips, JD, CPP, CSyP, CAE, and principal of Global Insights in Professional Security; and A.J. Cook, who is…

Brooke Stokke July 24, 2020

The current status of the (virtual) courts

Likely the single most salient after-effect of the current pandemic on the legal landscape is its impact on the courts. Previously, the variance of their…

Joseph Raczynski July 22, 2020

Legal design, not legal tech, best enables access to justice

Charles Dickens’ Bleak House begins in the legal world — at the Lincoln’s Inn in London. Smoke rises from the chimneys, mixing with waterside pollution…

Anders Spile May 26, 2020

Why Your Business Professional Team is Critical to Your Firm’s Viability Right Now

In recent weeks, the headlines say it all. Law firms are doing everything possible to minimize the economic downturn and the ongoing financial woes created…

Susan Raridon Lambreth April 27, 2020

Large Law Firms Embrace Contingent Fee Litigation

Large law firms have defended their corporate clients from plaintiffs bringing cases on a contingent fee basis for a long time. When the cases have…

William P. Scarbrough April 16, 2020

Focused Firms: Segmental Differences in Demand & Efficiency

We continue our series of blog posts using Peer Monitor data to examine the characteristics of Focused Firms — those law firms that have 50%…

Joe Blackwood April 13, 2020

General Counsel Q&A: “A Firm Should Give Straightforward, Clear & Practical Advice” Says Reuters GC Gail Gove

Gail Gove, General Counsel at Reuters, recently spoke with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal: Litigation (PLJ) about managing a global team of lawyers, the value of…

Thomson Reuters Institute March 31, 2020

Tech-Enabled A2J: Meeting Clients Where They’re At Because the Future of ATJ Tech is Consumer

In an new column, “Tech-Enabled A2J”, we will take a look at how legal start-ups and legal technology innovations are impacting the push toward better…

Kristen Sonday March 30, 2020

Legal Technology, Mergers & Justice Brandeis’ “Curse of Bigness”

Not long ago, a friend of mine sent out an email announcing that his legal technology company had acquired a similar, smaller, legal desktop software…

Harris Tilevitz March 23, 2020

Focused Firms: Where Does the Efficiency Lie for these Practice-Concentrated Firms?

Continuing our series of blog posts, we will use Peer Monitor data to examine the characteristics of “Focused Firms” — those firms that have 50%…

Isaac Brooks March 19, 2020