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The Legal Profession in 2019: Exclusion Or Delusion?

By Stephen Embry on August 19, 2019

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. Macbeth About a week ago, I published a piece entitled Profession in Crisis, which summarized a recent ABA Report on the status of our profession offered and discussed at this year’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco. In that post, I focused on the Report’s statistics reflecting the lack of diversity in the profession, the lack of women in leadership…

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There’s Still a Place for Document Review Cameras

By Stephen Embry on August 12, 2019

I recently had the opportunity to try out and use an IPEVO VZ-X Wireless, HDMI & USB 8MP Document Camera. Document cameras are the overhead projectors of today. They enable you to show on your computer screen or through a projector a real-time image of whatever on which you focus the camera. With apps, you can then generally annotate the image, draw on it, or even add text.…

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ABA Profile Reveals a Profession in Crisis

By Stephen Embry on August 10, 2019

Today, at a relatively sparsely attended session at its annual meeting in San Francisco (the session did take place at 2 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon), the American Bar Association released its 2019 Profile of the Legal Profession Report and offered a blunt panel discussion on the findings.…

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SmallCon 2019: A Tale of Two Conferences

By Stephen Embry on August 2, 2019

Over the past couple of weekends, I attended two conferences, one in Nashville and one in the suburbs of Chicago. One was legal. One was not. Both were small events with less than 200 attendees. And while they were both different substantively, they both had the same informal, sharing type feel where real conversations can and do happen.…

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Stop The Insanity. Kill The Billable Hour.

By Stephen Embry on August 1, 2019

Today in the American Lawyer, a frank and insightful open letter from Dentons senior partner Jana Cohen Barbe was published. The message was directed primarily toward the devastating toll the billable hour model is taking on our mental health and our profession. The pressure to work seven days a week, to miss family events, to forgo vacations, to miss needed doctor’s appointments—can not be overstated…

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Data Analytics and Legal Bills: The Holy Grail?

By Stephen Embry on July 29, 2019

I have been intrigued of late with the potential power of big data and data analytics to disrupt the practice of law and provide insights into areas previously governed by lawyer “gut instinct.” For example, litigation data analytics can provide useful and significant insights into such things as experience and tendencies of opposing counsel, judicial inclinations, and timing. Analytics is revolutionizing the counsel selection process as clients use data to learn the truth about lawyer…

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LexisNexis, Knowable Announce Joint Venture

By Stephen Embry on July 18, 2019

The giant legal services provider, LexisNexis and Knowable, one of the leaders in enterprise contract intelligence, today announced that they have entered into an joint venture agreement. Knowable was spun off from Axiom Global Inc. in February 2019. Mark Harris and Alec Guettel, Axiom’s co-founders, will lead Knowable as CEO and CFO respectively. Knowable provides machine-learning enabled contract data analytics and related contract intelligence solutions. Knowable’s products allow their corporate clients to peer deeply…

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AALL’s Litigation Data Analytics Competition: 5 Take Aways

By Stephen Embry on July 15, 2019

Want to know what litigation analytic product to use? Some 27 librarians tested 7 platforms of the most well litigation analytics providers to see which one was the best. They presented their findings at the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) annual meeting this week in Washington D.C. The platforms evaluated were those offered by Bloomberg Law, Docket Alarm, Docket Navigator, Lex Machina, Lexis Context, Monitor Suite and WestLaw Edge. The test panel consisted of…

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WestLaw Announces Quick Check

By Stephen Embry on July 12, 2019

Thomson Reuters and WestLaw today announced the release of an enhanced legal research platform called Quick Check as part of their WestLaw Edge suite of products. Quick Check uses sophisticated algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning to search and find better and more relevant cites and authorities to use in legal writing. It works like this: you upload your document securely into the WestLaw Edge cloud and Quick Check then searches for and provides citations…

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Lawyers Are In the Information Business. Get Over It

By Stephen Embry on July 10, 2019

This week I’m attending the Enterprise World Conference in Toronto put on by OpenText. OpenText is an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) company that works with businesses of all sorts to manage digital information and then use that information to better achieve their goals. If that sounds broad, its because it is. OpenText has its hands in almost every industry. OpenText recently made a big play to get into the LegalTech space and is trumpeting…

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The Legal Profession in 2019: Exclusion Or Delusion?

There’s Still a Place for Document Review Cameras

ABA Profile Reveals a Profession in Crisis

SmallCon 2019: A Tale of Two Conferences

Stop The Insanity. Kill The Billable Hour.

Data Analytics and Legal Bills: The Holy Grail?

LexisNexis, Knowable Announce Joint Venture

AALL’s Litigation Data Analytics Competition: 5 Take Aways

WestLaw Announces Quick Check

Lawyers Are In the Information Business. Get Over It

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