Midsize Law Firms Blog Posts

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

Luminating Latina Lawyers: Minding the representation gap

Latinx culture is quite well-known for being family oriented; and these community values impact the career decisions of many Latina lawyers, often conflicting with career…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color August 07, 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

Law School Innovators: 5 insights for effectively teaching legal research during the pandemic

During the pandemic, how can law schools keep classes productive and engaging with the shift to online learning? A recent webinar, Teaching Legal Research in…

Brooke Stokke August 05, 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

What law firms need to learn from Millennials & COVID-19

For years, millennial attorneys have asked, cajoled, and failed to get their law firms to loosen the reins on upgrading new technology and allowing them…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams July 30, 2020

Managing the teleworking office

Over the past four months, and with only limited advance preparation, organizations all over the United States embarked on an unprecedented experiment in distributed, remote…

Conrad Jacoby July 28, 2020

Artificial intelligence: Minding the gap between hype & performance

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have held law firms, legal software vendors, and the legal press in thrall over the past few years. But has success…

Jeff Rovner July 23, 2020

ON LEADERSHIP: “Leaders need to listen more than talk,” says John Alessio, Managing Partner of Procopio

We continue our monthly column, On Leadership, created by Rose Ors for Thomson Reuters. Each month will feature conversations with law firm Chief Executive Officers and…

Rose D. Ors July 22, 2020

Law, life & passion at the core of one midsize law firm’s culture & philosophy

Law. Life. Passion. is the tagline for the Nashville-based, midsize law firm Bone McAllester Norton. And these three words pretty much capture the 45-lawyer firm…

Natalie Runyon July 21, 2020

App development platforms as a legal service offering

To some within the legal technology field, the value of enterprise software vendor app development platforms is not widely appreciated. This is a function of…

Kenneth Jones July 20, 2020