Photo by Geoff Greenwood via Unsplash.  Rot Fai Train Night Market, Thailand / The legal market is just as fragmented and complicated, and more painful to navigate.

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.…

Legal Evolution is going long on long-form content. This decision is reflected in our move to a Sunday publication schedule, which began in early June.

This editor’s note is made timely by Jae Um’s three-part series, Legal Innovation Woes (062-064).  It is not accurate to describe this work as a blog post.  It is strategic analysis on the legal industry of a depth and quality that is not available anywhere else on the Internet.  Jae is writing not to express her opinion but to solve a very difficult set of industry-level problems.  And that takes word count.

That pretty much covers it.  #SundayReading #LongFormContent. Thank you for your readership.…


The Difficult Problem Framework is a simple tool that requires continuous learning and objectivity. Part II of a two-part series.

The framework above was developed to solve very difficult problems related to organizational change, particularly those now facing the legal field. I realize the framework looks laughably simple. That said, it’s harder to apply than…