This post is the third part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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Even before the economic slump a handful of legal technology vendors recognized an opportunity to help firms better understand and budget for their non-hourly
This post is the second part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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There is no longer any doubt that the legal market has fundamentally changed in recent years. Every firm felt the weight of their clients’ demands
This post is the first part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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Project Management, which has been around since the 1950s, is defined on Wikipedia as “the discipline of planning,
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Last weeks’s post from Toby on “The First Time I Saw a Computer Practice Law” jogged my mind of my recent trip to Georgetown Law School and talking to Roger Skalbeck about assigning his class called “Technology, Innovation and Law Practice.” The major assignment for the class was to create
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Niki Black, Jeff Brandt and some others have been having a Twitter dialog on the extent to which computers are currently able to replace lawyer functions. Part of the discussion centers around defining what is meant by replacing lawyers, which falls in to the old debate of
We’ve asked you to pull out your crystal ball and look ten years into the future to see what the law firm of 2021 might look like. As usual, you didn’t disappoint us with your answers. We have visions of changes in basic technology; the “super-marketing” effect of law firms, including catchy brand names; changes
Toby was kind enough to highlight for me a very interesting conference scheduled for April 15 at Berkeley Law School. It’s called the New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference (NELIC), and is hosted by a legal startup called Robot Robot & Hwang — two of the partners are ‘robots’; the third is Tim Hwang
[Note: This is part three of a three-part guest-series on Practice Support Lawyers (PSL) and the emergence of PSLs in the United States from our guest-blogger, Ian Nelson.]
PSLs in the US – A Way Forward
So how should US firms adapt and refine the PSL model? The UK experience has shown that
[Note: This is part two of a three-part guest-series on Practice Support Lawyers (PSL) and the emergence of PSLs in the United States from our guest-blogger, Ian Nelson.]
PSLs in the UK – A Brief History
The PSL role first appeared in the largest UK firms in the early 1990s. These firms gradually
