Microsoft is pushing legal buy and provider engagement to the next level and asking their primary firms to come along. Here’s why it matters: they’re thinking bigger, committed for the long haul, and bringing a STEM mindset to legal innovation.…

Great things don’t just happen.  People make them happen.  So who is actually working on legal innovation (and why haven’t they fixed everything already)? Innovation is a strange word.  At least, it tends to affect people strangely, particularly in the legal industry. Of late, eye-rolling 🙄 and face-palming 🤦🏻 are gaining traction as the response du jour.  Despite the growing levels of skepticism in and around the echo chambers and the pockets of battle-weary veterans, the word “innovation”…

Legal markets are chaotic.  For innovators, that chaos can be a pit or a ladder – depending on how quickly they can find a market to serve. We get it.  Legal innovation feels slow.  Very, very slow. Popular theories for the seemingly glacial pace of change include lawyer personalities, legacy compensation structures, or the lack of access to innovation capital.  In past posts, I’ve criticized over-reliance on narratives that hinge on “because lawyers”…

Legal markets are chaotic.  For innovators, that chaos can be a pit or a ladder – depending on how quickly they can find a market to serve. We get it.  Legal innovation feels slow.  Very, very slow.…

2018 has been a watershed year for capital flow into legal markets.  Will it be enough, at last, to push legal innovation forward? It’s an age-old saying: money can’t buy everything.  The most common examples include happiness and love.  It’s time to add “legal innovation” to this lofty list. In the past few years, we have seen unprecedented levels of capital flow into the legal space.  The partial views of funding activity we see from…