And you still can hear me singing To the people who don’t listen To the things that I am saying Praying someone’s gonna hear And I guess I’ll die explaining how The things that they complain about Are things they could be changing Hoping someone’s gonna care Kris Kristofferson, To Beat the Devil Is the legal world really changing, or are we all still just talking about change?   Last week, for the first time…

Bob Ambrogi and I have a running dispute. He says I was the first one to ask whether it might be malpractice to not use legal data analytics in today’s litigation world. I say he was the first one to ask that very legitimate question.   But it really doesn’t matter who first coined the question. Recent results from the third annual Legal Analytics Survey by LexisNexis suggests if the answer is not already yes,…

I just returned home after four days in New York City for LegalWeek2020. LegalWeek is one of the biggest and most well-known legal tech conferences more info. While there are other conferences, LegalWeek is more eDiscovery and vendor orientated. CLOC, for example, focuses more on substantive issues surrounding legal ops. ABA’s TechShow is designed to get basic information to a broad audience.   LegalWeek is geared more toward larger commercial law firms. It’s the…

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Changes David Bowie 1971 I went back to my old law firm for an open house this week. It was the first time I had been there since leaving the firm to blog, consult, and practice law on my own. My former partners were very welcoming but curious about how I was doing. If I liked what I was doing and happy with the change. In a word, my answer…