It’s a long story I don’t often tell my colleagues in the legal field, partially because it is long and attention spans are short, and partially because they’ll just find it confusing. But before I went to law school (at age 35), I was a firefighter/paramedic for nine years. See Post 070 (full story for
Legal Evolution’s summer publication schedule started Sunday with Jason Barnwell’s magnificent post on designing knowledge work, see Post 159, and will continue each week until Labor Day.
When I launched
We are at the end of the beginning of one of the most terrifying periods in modern economic history. An unexpected outside event has created massive unemployment, acute under-production, and isolated instances of tragic over-production all at once. We are creating a fiscal crisis and waiting for
The legal industry is full of opinions – and so it is full of noise. In 2019, 🤦♂️ facepalming and 🙄 eyerolling at innovation hype is still very much in vogue, and so a lot of the noise is 😒 negative 😠 in tone.
Amidst all the noise, though, I see very clear signals of meaningful change.
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For many of us, success is partially a function of being at the right place at the right time. Yet, this type of luck often has even larger second-order effects, such as the ability to see new and emerging business opportunities. Indeed, this is how I see the careers of Ian Nelson and Chris Wedgeworth, who were part of the sales team that helped Practical Law Company (PLC) enter and dominate the U.S. market.
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The graphic above is worksheet designed to aid the development and adoption of legal innovations. I created it for my “How Innovation Diffuses in the Legal Industry” courses at Bucerius and Northwestern Law (downloadable PDF available here). This past week, I had the opportunity to present it at LMA’s P3 Conference in Chicago.
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This essay is a career study of Robert Meltzer, a highly successful legaltech entrepreneur who is not famous or well-known in legaltech circles, primarily because his success
Earlier this month I participated in the Inspire.legal conference in New York City. Because Inspire.legal was sufficiently different than any other legal industry event I have attended, I began ruminating on the question “why?”
The matrix above, which
— Prof. Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School
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