The following is the final part of a 4 part post expanding on my short introduction to an ILTA session entitled, Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? If you have not yet listened to the full session (and you have nothing better to do for the next 90 minutes), you should go listen to
The Exponential Law Firm – Part 3
The following is the 3rd part of a 4 part post expanding on my short introduction to an ILTA session entitled, Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? If you have not yet listened to the full session (and you have nothing better to do for the next 90 minutes), you should go listen to
The Exponential Law Firm – Part 2
The following is the second part of a 4 part post that expands upon a short introduction I gave to an ILTA session entitled, Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? If you have not yet listened to the full session (and you have nothing better to do for the next 90 minutes), you should
The Exponential Law Firm – Part 1
The following is the 1st part of a 4 part post expanding on my short introduction to an ILTA session entitled, Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? If you have not yet listened to the full session (and you have nothing better to do for the next 90 minutes), you should go listen to
Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds?
I had the privilege and pleasure of moderating a terrific panel at the ILTA conference this year. The title of the session was the title of this post. And the intention of the session was to explore, not WHAT new technology was coming down the pipe, but HOW that technology would fundamentally change lawyers, law
Clearing Up Some Myth-conceptions
I have said in the past that my job as a blogger is to get the conversation started. By that measure, my last post was extremely successful. Three bloggers, that I know of, felt compelled to write follow up posts to The Myth of Disruptive Technology, and at least one commenter went so
The Myth of Disruptive Technology
This post originally appeared on the LexisNexis Future of Law Blog under the title, Lessons from Blockbuster: re-engineer, don’t disappear
In a recent session at LegalTech NY, I spoke about what I consider to be the great myth of disruptive technology; that we need to be on the hunt for the next big thing to
Neota Logic's Six Steam Engines of Modern Legal Services
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There was a very interesting article on Neota Logic’s blog yesterday that has really had me thinking ever since I read it (and re-read it a few more times.) The article, what will the lawyers do now? Dancing With Robots, The Second Machine Age, and The Hammer Song, covers the whole
Trickle Up Technology
I heard a lot of grumbling from BigLaw attendees at Reinvent Law NY about the consumer legal app commercials sprinkled in and amongst the other presenters. The easiest and most common target was Shake.
Shake is an app for creating legal contracts on the fly from your phone. You answer a few simple questions,
Putting Technology in Its Place
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A recent post on how law schools need to embrace technology (#1), along with a recent overblown debate on the law firm business model (#2), combined with a conversation with a colleague on “disruptive” technology for law firms (#3), got me thinking. So this time, it was three events instead of three