Here’s what’s trending in the Legal Industry: (1) Best Legal Blog Posts of 2018, (2) Hot Market for Legal Operations, (3) Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, (4) Smart Contracts, (5) 2019 Legal Market Outlook, (6) Underpaying Associates, (7) 20 Most Important Legal Tech Developments of 2018, and more!

With 2018 winding down we are reflecting on what a great year 2018 was! We’ll have a bigger announcement soon but our Blog recently won The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog for the Legal Tech category! We’ve heard the “12 Days of Christmas” repeatedly this month so as 2018 comes to a close here are

We write about trends in the legal industry and one trend in 2018 that sticks out is gender bias in the legal industry. The most recent piece of evidence is the partner announcement at Paul Weiss that optically is about as tone deaf as you can get and as Joe Patrice from “Above the Law”

According to data from Altman Weil’s MergerLine TM, the legal industry has averaged 80 law firm mergers per year since 2013. The ongoing volatile legal market means more law firm merger activity will continue to occur. The vast majority of acquisitions are of law firms with 20 lawyers or less. Based on the data

Here’s what’s trending in the Legal Industry: (1) American Lawyer announces its Law Firm of the Year, (2) General Counsels should be great communicators and have digital transformation skills, (3) Information Security Trends for Legal, (4) Creative Solutions for Legal Resourcing, (5) Spending on Legal Tech, and more!

Contracts take up an enormous amount of time to negotiate and sign. They never seem to get signed fast enough and there are so many to negotiate. Organizations often blame the other party (or the lawyers) for taking unreasonable positions or just being “difficult”. We’ve written several blog posts about reducing the cycle time of