Elevate recently acquired five companies in less than three months. I’ve been asked: why those companies in particular, and why so many in such a short space of time? To answer those questions, I should first answer the deeper question of what is
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
I came to law from engineering. My previous training and trade create an outsider’s inside perspective on how we solve problems with the practice of
Later this month, the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP, or “I-flip”) will celebrate its one year anniversary. Before that, it was just an idea in the minds of a few dozen lawyers, legal educators and allied professionals. In
My own contributions to legal innovation have mostly been through my work as dean – over the course of thirteen years, at two law schools. The experience gained through these two leadership endeavors has
In Post 066, I shared that law firm and law department leaders often ask me how to get started with
Sometimes a technical innovation languishes on the innovator’s shelf despite working perfectly and doing everything the innovator hoped. What’s missing is a business model that can coordinate a fair exchange of value.
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Last year I was at a conference on law firm innovation organized by the Ark Group. To close things out, the event’s chairperson, Patrick McKenna, walked attendees