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Legal Innovation Woes, Part III: Skill Shortage, Emotional Labor & Arrested Development (066)

By Jae Um on September 3, 2018

Posted in Legal Innovation, Talent

Photo by Carson Arias via Unsplash / When innovation dreams fade, heads often roll.

Great things don’t just happen. People make them happen. So who is actually working on legal innovation (and why haven’t they fixed everything already)?

Innovation is a strange word. At least, it tends to affect people strangely,…

The Godfather just lateraled to a law firm (055)

By Bill Henderson on July 1, 2018

Posted in BigLaw, Legal Innovation, Legal Ops

Is legal operations a discipline or a job within a legal department? The market just provided an answer.

Last Friday, David Cambria, the Godfather of legal operations, left his secure post at ADM (#46 on the Fortune 500) to become Global Director of Legal Operations at Baker McKenzie. To be clear, Cambria’s…