New Ideas
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Hire an Esquire, Innovation, Legal Staffing, Moneyball for Law, New Ideas, Technology
Evolve the Law Podcast: Eric Fox
Eric Fox and Ian dissect the lawyer brain on this week’s ETL podcast.
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New Ideas, Startup, Technology
Space: How to Find Office Space for Your LegalTech Startup
Some things to keep in mind when considering office spaces for your legal technology startup.
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New Ideas, Startup, Technology
Sync: Finding Industry Partners
Tips to consider when considering vendor partnerships.
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Innovation, New Ideas, Technology
The World’s Most Disruptive Technology (That No One Is Talking About), Part II.
Quantum computing “changes everything” by fundamentally changing how computers process data. Here’s how and why you should care.
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Innovation, New Ideas, Strategic Plan
Business strategy is about anticipating and planning for the future. Strategic innovation is about creating a future where your firm is poised to be on top. The two are different and must work together—and that’s a real challenge for firms.
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Innovation, Legal Technology, New Ideas, Technology
To Increase Client Satisfaction, Improve Yourself
As lawyers, if we struggle with substantive legal issues, we recognize the ethical obligation to seek outside help to build those skills. But, when we have undefined productivity problems, the same corrective action frequently does not follow.
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Biotech, CRISPR, Innovation, Legal Ethics, New Ideas, Technology
The World’s Most Disruptive Technology (That No One Is Talking About).
CRISPR is a new biotech tool used by scientists to edit human DNA. The benefits are dreamy, but the potential costs are a nightmare at global scale.
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Big Data, Innovation, Legal Design, Legal Technology, New Ideas, Startup, Technology
Is Your Legal Tech Initiative Working?
Tracking the success of technology and process improvement initiatives is key to knowing whether they work and planning for the future.
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The Future of Litigation: Getting Back to the Facts
We need to get back to the facts.
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Changing Attitudes to Technology Starts with Incentives
Technologists seem mystified that lawyers don’t embrace efficiency-enhancing innovations. Despite our reluctance to face it, as lawyers, we need look no further than our rewards structure to see why. Billable hours reward inefficiency. And that rewards structure has remained in place with the help of ethical fading. We think that we’re simply using the existing […]
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Four Tips for a Non-Traditional Legal Career
As a General Counsel & Product Manager at Alt Legal, I really have an alternative legal career. I’m a lawyer. I review and draft all of our company’s legal work. I wear some variation of a Canadian tuxedo to work almost every day. I do customer support. I blog. I am the Product Manager, so […]
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The Art of Being an Intrapreneur, Part III – The Intrapreneur’s Stretch
Introducing a new service offering in an established company presents its own unique challenges. Much like you would in traditional start-up, you’ll be selling services and, in many instances, delivering, too — at least at the beginning. At the same time, you’ll be teaching others in your company to either sell the new services or […]
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The Art of Being an Intrapreneur Part II: You Accepted the Challenge, Now What?
In our first installment, we discussed how to decide whether to accept your company’s invitation to build a new business line. Today, we cover what happens next, after you’ve accepted the challenge. Making a smart decision to take on the development of a new service offering is undeniably important, but what happens after you make the […]
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The Art of Being an Intrapreneur: Building Your Company’s Next Great Business Line
Over the course of my career, I have been asked to help build several new practices or service lines within an existing business. While there’s a lot of guidance for entrepreneurs bringing new services to the legal services industry, little guidance is offered for the intrapreneur. Taking on the challenge of building a new business […]