Trading ego for effectiveness, friendship, and purpose.
Joe Borstein and Paul Stroka asked me to get naked with them. I said yes. Then Bill asked me to write about it. So here we are.
Now that you’re hooked by the
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In this week’s feature post (267), we are pleased to welcome guest contributor Casey Flaherty, who explains why the “getting naked” approach to consultative sales is the perfect model to solve the decision overload faced by time-starved
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A law firm with best-in-class ALSP features
I have written before about how the lines between legal service providers are blurring, see, e.g., Lucien Pera & Yvonne Nath, “What If… Chambers Ranks Law Firms Alongside ALSPs?,” Law.com, Aug
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Q. In the simplest terms possible, what is the core functionality of AI in legal?
It often seems that most of the legal profession thinks that AI is a box of pixie dust that you can sprinkle over any data
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Hal, Val, and the lawyer governance problem that’s hindering AI in law
Oscar Reutersvärd is the “father of the impossible figure.” Some of his impossible figures are captured on the Swedish stamps shown above. The figures are, of course, quite
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115,770 versus 107,209
Above is a graphic that shows the increase in the number of employed lawyers broken down by sector. The takeaway is that in-house is growing much faster than the government and law firm sectors.
This graphic was
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Avoid debate. Build useful stuff.
Earlier this summer, Legal Evolution applied to the Library of Congress for an International Standard Serial Number, or ISSN. A few weeks ago, we received our official approval. Legal Evolution is ISSN 2769-6161. You
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Millennials were already skeptical of the law firm model. Then the pandemic hit, reinforcing the legal profession’s worst tendencies. A walk through the data.
Law firm leaders generally underestimated the magnitude, duration, and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other
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For today’s feature (Post 260), Legal Evolution is pleased to welcome back guest contributor Randy Kiser, whom I’ve previously described as the “preeminent scholar of the U.S. legal profession” and the “world’s leading authority on legal decision making.”
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So we’re gonna change too.
In last month’s column (Post 253), we defined NewLaw as a significantly different approach to the creation or provision of legal services than what the legal profession traditionally has employed. Thus, it is
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