Watershed: The CBA Futures Report
This morning, the Canadian Bar Association released the widely anticipated Final Report of its CBA Legal Futures Initiative, “Futures: Transforming The Delivery Of Legal Services In Canada.” I had the...
View ArticleWhy law firms need R&D investment
Lawyers hardly ever talk about research and development. We might be the only major industry or professional sector that fails to do so. Last year, total spending on R&D by the world’s 1,000...
View ArticleBigLaw levels up
My older brother used to give my teenaged self (with some justification) a hard time about playing Dungeons & Dragons. I eventually grew tired of the cracks about wasting time in a fantasy world,...
View ArticleWhy law firms should focus on adaptation, not disruption
In a post last month, Ron Friedmann poured cold water on the notion that large law firms were anywhere close to being “disrupted” — to losing the commercial legal services market to high-tech NewLaw...
View ArticleThe ethics of innovation
Earlier this year, a legal periodical called me up and asked my opinion of third-party litigation financing. As you might know, my view of this particular innovation (detailed here on three previous...
View ArticleLaw firms’ shopping mall problem
The last time I went to a shopping mall was a week before Christmas. I had several people for whom I needed to acquire gifts (I’m an inveterate last-minute shopper), and I wanted to cover as little...
View ArticleThe next top model: Law firm edition
As you probably know, I wrote a book a couple of years ago strongly suggesting that the traditional law firm, shot through with various defects, is a poor fit for the new legal market and won’t survive...
View ArticleReflections from a parallel universe
With the publication of Jack Newton‘s terrific new book The Client-Centered Law Firm: How to Succeed in an Experience-Driven World (glowingly reviewed by Bob Ambrogi at Above The Law), I thought I’d...
View ArticleThe legal sandbox tipping point
You’re familiar with regulatory sandboxes in law, right? If so, feel free to skip down a few paragraphs. If not, here’s how I described them in a recent podcast: A regulatory sandbox is essentially a...
View ArticleThe legal regulation revolution
Almost exactly three years ago, when hardly anyone was talking about a pandemic, I wrote about the California State Bar’s brand new Access Through Innovation In Legal Services Task Force, of which I...
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