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Is It Malpractice To Not Use Legal Analytics?

By Stephen Embry

February 18, 2020

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,…

TechLaw Crossroads

LegalWeek 2020: 5 Impressions of a Lawyer Turned Blogger

By Stephen Embry

February 8, 2020

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…

TechLaw Crossroads

CounselLink FastTrack Reduces Payment Pain Point

By Stephen Embry

January 28, 2020

One hallmark of good technology is that it addresses a customers’ pain point and makes life easier. If that’s true, then LexisNexis® CounselLink® new FastTrack product hits the mark. This is the time of year —right before and during LegalWeek, which deems itself with some justification as “the largest and most important legal technology event of the year”—for new legal tech product announcements. One of these that caught my attention was a new offering from…

TechLaw Crossroads

Dithering About Career Change? Three Life Lessons That Will Help

By Stephen Embry

January 24, 2020

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…

TechLaw Crossroads

Change and Innovation in Legal: Back to Reality

By Stephen Embry

January 18, 2020

This week was back to reality week for me. Back from the fun, sizzle and excitement of CES (fka the Consumer Electronics Show). Back from sunny Las Vegas with all its glitz and glamour. I always come back from this event charged up and optimistic about what is possible in tech and the legal profession.…

TechLaw Crossroads

A Lawyer At CES. Part 2, Locomotives and Tweezers

By Stephen Embry

January 10, 2020

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Want to tell a story in a way people (non-lawyers) expect it to be told? Better get with technology So now it’s all over for 2020. I’m back home after a week in Las Vegas listening to product spiels, future predictions and looking at more crazy products than I can count. (robotic cat liter box anyone?)…

TechLaw Crossroads

A Lawyer At CES. The Top 10 Takeaways

By Stephen Embry

January 8, 2020

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else. Paul Austerer, Winter Journal As I do every year, I’m in Las Vegas this week for CES. (CES used to Stand for…

TechLaw Crossroads

The Ten Most Important Law Practice Developments of 2019

By Stephen Embry

December 30, 2019

It’s fashionable this time of year to look back at the events of the past year and identify the most significant. For me, that means finding the 2019 developments that have the greatest potential to change the practice of law. A top 10. And a number 1.…

TechLaw Crossroads

BlackBoiler Maximizes AI/Human Interaction For Contract Negotiations

By Stephen Embry

December 23, 2019

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The highest and best use of AI is where AI is combined with human intelligence to get the best of both worlds. This lets AI do what it does best: search through a large number of data points, find things like hidden patterns, and “learn” from previous applications. AI frees humans to do what they do best: use experience, knowledge, and insight to see nuanced connections, and use lateral and system thinking.…

TechLaw Crossroads

Why Does Lawyer Marketing Suck?

By Stephen Embry

December 16, 2019

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Why does lawyer marketing suck? A new Survey by LexisNexis Interaction suggests its because most law firms don’t use data to make strategic marketing decisions. Lexis Nexis Interaction today published its Law Firm Marketing & Business Development Survey. The Survey was conducted between August and October 2019. One hundred three legal marketing leaders across the U.S. and Europe participated, many from 40 Am Law 100 firms. Most were with established multi-office firms with over…

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Is It Malpractice To Not Use Legal Analytics?

LegalWeek 2020: 5 Impressions of a Lawyer Turned Blogger

CounselLink FastTrack Reduces Payment Pain Point

Dithering About Career Change? Three Life Lessons That Will Help

Change and Innovation in Legal: Back to Reality

A Lawyer At CES. Part 2, Locomotives and Tweezers

A Lawyer At CES. The Top 10 Takeaways

The Ten Most Important Law Practice Developments of 2019

BlackBoiler Maximizes AI/Human Interaction For Contract Negotiations

Why Does Lawyer Marketing Suck?

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