Huge, If True: How Microsoft’s Big Ideas Could Transform Legal Buy (069)
Can Microsoft hit “refresh” on client-law firm relations? (068)
Microsoft’s legal department has the talent, resources and vision. With enough time, a “Microsoft system” could evolve that will be as influential as the original Cravath system.
I was very fortunate to be invited to the most recent Microsoft Trusted Advisor Forum, which took place on September 20 at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The Forum featured
Our journey to Big (067)
Big corporations are growing faster than the rest of the economy. It is not hard to figure out where this is going. Lawyer acceptance is different story.
Many lawyers and law firms claim to serve the middle market, often describing how they deal directly with owners and executives rather than in-house counsel. Although these clients
My long history with law firm scorecards (047)
The legal industry wants more innovation. The missing ingredient is strong leadership.
Several years ago, a good friend threw me to the lions, though that was not his intent.
My friend, who works in legaltech, asked me to show up at the headquarters of a Fortune 100 company to present some prototypes I had developed
Lucy Bassli shares her thought process behind her major career move (044)
Earlier this year, Lucy Bassli left her position as Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft to become Chief Legal Strategist for LawGeex, a promising legaltech start-up, and to open her own hybrid law firm-consultancy.
Why would one of the legal industry’s most respected legal ops professionals leave the safety and
Successful technology adoption: David Cambria (ADM) and Eric Elfman (Onit) discuss their collaboration (041)
When David Cambria sat down with Eric Elfman to discuss his willingness to try Onit software, he stated that if ADM in-house lawyers were required to engage “in a single unnatural act,” the implementation would fail.
Cambria elaborates, “Why are we all so comfortable with Word, Excel, and Outlook? Because these tools don’t have an
“The Lawyer Theory of Value” by Casey Flaherty (040)
In a recent post at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty puts his finger on a big problem. The opening paragraphs are too funny not to quote in their entirety:
My friend John Grant [of Start Here HQ] made a mistake.
Many moons ago he was consulting on process improvement for a
“The State of Technology in the Law,” Mark Chandler speech from January 2007 (035)
On the occasion of his Lifetime Achievement Award, Legal Evolution is pleased to republish Mark Chandler’s 2007 speech, “The State of Technology in the Law.” This speech arguably marks the beginning of the current era of law practice in which large corporate clients assert more power and authority within the relationship.
At the time,
Part III on Convergence: Clients Must Manage to Get Results (031)
Part I of this series (029) laid out some pervasive problems with law firm panel arrangements, and Part II (030) outlined the basics of how we believe those problems can be overcome through correct structure and active management. This final installment will go deeper into what we believe are the most
Part II on Convergence: How to Make it Work (030)
In the first part of this series (Post 029), we discussed why there are sometimes serious problems with the way law firm preferred provider panels are structured and managed. In particular, we often see that law firm panels:
- Take clients “up-market”, raising rather than lowering their legal fees;
- Reduce firms’ responsiveness, because larger