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Current issue Dec 2018
Download 10MB (PDF format)The 20-lanes highway of law firm innovation - Jobst Elster
Many law firms are launching legal operations consultancies designed to streamline operations and offer business and technology innovation to improve their services.
Knowledge sharing, the Netflix way! - Nicky Leijtens
In today’s increasingly digital world, law firms should look at platform giants such as Netflix when deciding how to share knowledge with clients. Rethinking knowledge sharing in terms of convenience, instant delivery and value for money could turn lawyers’ collective wisdom into a reliable source of hit series.
Is technology making the law firm IT department redundant? - Duncan Eadie
It’s not enough for the IT department to drive the transformation of a business—it also needs to transform itself.
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- What's happening at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner? - Jonathan Watson
- New legal industry job titles explained: Legal Process Engineer - Joe Davis
- Legaltech Legend:DW Reporting's (and now BigHand's) Dan Wales
- The Verdict: Joy Heath Rush, Jordan Furlong, Toby Brown and Harris Tilevitz give their perspective on what non-technical skills are vital to thrive and advance in an IT management role in 2019 and beyond.
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Issue #23 Sep 2018
Download Read online 15,3MB (PDF format)Boring Artificial Intelligence - Philip Scorgie
AI may now have entered the ‘Slope of Enlightenment’ stage of the Gartner hype cycle.
Smart Collaboration: deploying technology to capture higher value - Heidi Gardner
Law firms that can kickstart a journey towards a more collaborative, higher-value client service will emerge as the clear leaders with a sustainably successful future.
Gutted! Not the typical legaltech battle - Martyn Wells
Martyn Wells’ story should give us pause and encourage us to think about what really matters most in life. Martyn is one of us. As the IT director at award-winning UK law firm Wright Hassall, he battles to provide his firm with the best possible IT strategy and support. But over the last 20 months or so, he has been forced to fight a very different kind of battle. Against cancer. Read Martyn’s story, in his own words.
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- What's happening at LawGeex? - Jonathan Watson
- Technology and unscaled law firms - Mitchell Kowalski
- Legaltech Legend: Clio's Co-founder & CEO Jack Newton
- The legal sector's bright future in AI and Blockchain - Jeff Catanzaro
- Innovation and cybersecurity high on the agenda at the LawTech Summit
- Happy Birthday! The Global Legal Blockchain Consortium celebrates first birthday - David Fisher & Pierson Grider
- The Verdict: Eight experts give their views on how to persuade lawyers and law firms to embrace technological change - Jeffrey Brandt with contributions from Maritta Terrell, Denise Ash, Doug Striker, Gina Buser, Jeffrey Roach, Donna Payne, Cathy Zornes and Luke Schnoebelen
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Issue #22 Jul 2018
Download 8,7MB (PDF format)Culture eats law firms' digital transformation for breakfast - Andrea Miskolczi
For a law firm’s digital transformation strategy to be successful, it is crucial to have a strategic vision and a profound understanding of one’s own processes.
Legal tech innovation is providing access to justice for billions worldwide - Christy Burke
Armed with intelligence, creativity, compassion and data, people who care can make a huge difference for those who need help.
E-Discovery Unfiltered 2018: understanding the trends that are reshaping how law firms and law departments manage discovery - Ari Kaplan
This year’s ‘E-Discovery Unfiltered’ report reflects a broad agreement that a tool or individual cannot manage a discovery portfolio in isolation.
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- What’s happening at DocsCorp? - Jonathan Watson
- IT disaster recovery for law firms: five essential steps - Jeff Norris & Greg Inge
- "Hey, that's cool, where did you get it? Oh, it's something I learned at Lexpo" - Jonathan Watson
- Raising the Relativity developer ecosystem - Sean Doherty
- The Verdict: has the term ‘thought leader’ now become overused and overrated? - Jeffrey Brandt with contributions from Felicity Badcock, Monica Bay, Keith Lipman and Arup Das
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Issue #21 Mar 2018
Download Read online on Issuu 8,9MB (PDF format)Finches, death and business intelligence - John Alber
Today’s law firms could learn a lot from the finches of the Galápagos Islands. John Alber explains where business intelligence comes into play.
The path to quantifying the practice of law - Karl Haraldsson
There are significant but surmountable gaps between what law firms want to do with practice data and what they are equipped to do right now. If they are to capitalise fully on the promise of data analytics, those gaps need to be filled.
Modern KM adds value to client relationship - Patrick DiDomenico
To develop a successful approach to knowledge management, firms need to focus on user experience, efficiency and effectiveness.
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- What’s happening at Ascertus? - Jonathan Watson
- Blockchain brings a system of digital trust to the law - David Fisher
- Running for Congress: a new focus, familiar objectives - Ralph Baxter
- Has a blockchain bonanza arrived for lawyers? - David Yermack
- The Verdict: Today the table is full of partners and associates and select others. When AI ‘arrives’ at a law firm, how do those seats at the table change? How do you envision the legal team of the future changing?