‘Teach, Lead, And Transform’: The Future Of The Legal Profession
Joining an emerging trend in legal education, Penn Law launches an innovative and important new initiative.
From Russia With Love
If all the pieces don't work together, it's not going to get you to the top.
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
When It Comes To Legal Tech Solutions, Say What, Not How
Providers seem to forget that a precondition to even considering how a tool works, is about what it can do to help.
Obsessed With Data: Catching Wild Butterflies
Data has always existed within law firms but, like a wild butterfly, was unreachable. Now, law firms have harnessed the ability to capture the data.
Taste The Soup! Innovation Is Hiding In Plain Sight In The Legal Profession
A great deal of innovation is being overlooked because it isn't associated with buzzwords like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and analytics.
Blockchain, Millennials, And The Law – The Times They Are A-Changin’
You may not yet understand the blockchain or the notion of smart contracts, but they are facilitating the world of fairness and transparency that Millennials hold dear.
How Checkbox’s ‘Legal Front Door’ Can Transform Your Workflow
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
That’s A Wrap
An exploration of our choices for our column, reactions to them, and what we’re hoping to explore and discuss next year.
Rainmaker.AI
Why are associates not spending time learning to develop clients at their firms, and why are most law firm partners not focused on teaching and mentoring associates to become rainmakers?
Take This Job And Shove It!
The risks (and costs) of lateral hiring failure is high, so take this advice before you proceed any further.
Irma, Waze, And Watson
Today's technology is truly transformational, but lawyers must use it correctly and appropriately.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Appetite For Destruction?
Of everything happening in the legal industry today, what will have enduring and sustained influence decades from now?
Biglaw’s Summer of Love?
Will it pass quickly, or does it represent the beginning of a major change?
Company With Roots In Serving Investors Aims To Disrupt Expert Witness Business
Two high-profile hires signal a new, more aggressive phase of building its legal business.
Power To The People
Technology is here to help lawyers, not to displace them.
Diversity In The Legal Profession: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same – Until They Don’t
The stated desire to address the diversity imbalance may give way to real change if peoples’ wallets depend on it.