I’m one of the uber-geeks that rushed home on Friday and opened my browser at 7:00 PM to watch (yes, watch via video feed) the launch of WolframAlpha. The launch wasn’t without its hick-ups (ran about 25 minutes late getting the video feed to work, then about an hour or so before the first
Carolyn Elefant posted an interesting comment to Part 2 of our Crowdsourcing dialogue.
After turning the MTurk crowdsourcing world loose on our project for about 30
After Greg’s post on crowdsourcing, he and I met to explore how
Although I see the appeal of the Just Do It crowd, there needs to be some performance metrics when it comes to Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs). And all paths on this subject point to The Budget. So for our next “How To” step towards AFAs, we need to dive in deeper on this subject.
We want alternative fees! This has become the new mantra of clients. Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) are all the rage now and rightly so, given the state of things.
But …
I’ve previously noted that clients, in addition to law firms, will need to change to adapt to AFAs. I’ve come to realize this
A number of recent posts and articles are talking about the de-leveraging of BigLaw. Many of these predict that the other side of the recession will see BigLaw with less associates per partner.
Say what?
There’s all this talk of alternative billing, leveraging technology and changing the way firms do business and somehow they are
Earlier in February, I sat in on a webinar provided by Altman Weil on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA). I had planned on getting a bunch of work done while I listened to the same ideas I’ve heard numerous times before. Fortunately, I didn’t get much work done since the program had some excellent content.
Two
In 1996 I was asked to speak for the Great Lakes Organization of Bar Executives (GLOBE). The group was meeting in Park City and I was a convenient geek to present to them (living in Salt Lake at the time). I was tasked with talking about the future of legal technology and how it might
My prior musings on search tools started from a discussion on how keyword searching has reached its limits. Courts and lawyers are struggling with the immense amount of information involved in discovery and hoping for more cost effective ways of finding relevant case information without breaking the bank.
The effort to improve search goes well