Balancing short-term benefits against long-term costs
One bright sunny day, Jack, a junior lawyer, discovers what could be a problem—Great Idea Inc., the big-potential startup corporate client for which he is working, does not have any organizational records. Jack’s job is to prepare Great Idea for a major venture capital investment. He has the Certificate
An effort to close the communication gap between legal technologists and the lawyers and called legal professionals they serve.
This post is for lawyers and allied legal professionals who are not legal technologists but want to understand some of the basic principles of constructing and operating an effective litigation management system.
The development of legal
Probably not, but we’ll see. A surprising conversation with digital transformation expert Isabel Parker
It’s already been quite a year for law firm innovation. Just last month, Norton Rose Fulbright launched LX Studio, a new “innovation-focused” subsidiary, and Wilson Sonsini unveiled Neuron, a proprietary SaaS platform for start-ups. Exciting propositions, but the development
The longest-standing democracy in the world looks and feels bitterly divided. An immigrant offers some reasons to keep hope alive for the American experiment.
On Friday, June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
If law is the primary domain of lawyers, then it follows that the arcane complexities of constitutional law should
Our last two feature essays, Posts 312 and 314, reflect a sharp departure from usual Legal Evolution content, primarily because of the seriousness of events in the broader world.
The Legal Evolution readership is composed of innovators and early adopters. Thus, we spend a significant portion of our lives trying to improve the status
Creating a baseline to measure the wealth, and building turmoil, of the current Gilded Age.
It is hard to imagine a more stark and tangible manifestation of the original Gilded
Sliding scale “low bono” legal services powered by a legal operations toolbox.
When it comes to legal representation, many people are at risk of slipping through the gap. The modest means gap, that is.
The modest means gap is an often-overlooked subsection of the population whose
Illinois Court Help is changing how people interact with the court system. Let’s hope it’s the beginning of something big.
[Editor’s note: Today’s feature post is written by Amanda N. Marino, a very talented recent law grad (Maurer Law ’22) with stellar journalism credentials. Back in the summer of 2020, when the pandemic disrupted
Oh, the Humanity! We can choose to choose better.
My first serious experience choosing law-related technology was in early 1985. Personal computers had just been introduced in the Harvard Law School clinics (as part of Project Pericles) and we
For what it’s worth …
My original plan was to go quietly and fade into obscurity from the legal industry at the end of May 2022. Instead, I chose to follow Bill’s advice (he is full of good advice). Bill suggested I write an article about why I’m choosing to retire from legal. Here you