Guest Comments

Guest post: Verein – what is it good for?

Guest post: Verein – what is it good for?

By Neil Cameron, founder and principal of the Neil Cameron Consulting Group Background A ‘verein’ is a legal entity defined in the Swiss civil code (Part one, title two, chapter
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Guest Comment: Understanding, and creating, a mobile work culture in an on-demand world

Guest Comment: Understanding, and creating, a mobile work culture in an on-demand world

by Joseph Blass, CEO, WorkPlaceLive Moving from a long-established, traditional work culture, in which staff are employed for a fixed number of hours in a workplace that might be the
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Guest post: What does AI mean for the future of law?

Guest post: What does AI mean for the future of law?

Typically, the legal industry has been thought of as a very traditional sector for a long time. In fact, it’s renowned for lagging behind other industries, such as financial services
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Guest cybersecurity post by Tim Hyman: GDPR and why the Data Protection Officer should be your new BFF

Guest cybersecurity post by Tim Hyman: GDPR and why the Data Protection Officer should be your new BFF

GDPR: or why the Data Protection Officer should be every IT Director’s new BFF (that’s Best Friend Forever for those of you over
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Guest post: The risk of data breach hangs daily over the legal sector – we can only stop it working together

Guest post: The risk of data breach hangs daily over the legal sector – we can only stop it working together

You don’t have to go very far back in living memory to think of a data breach that impacted a UK company or its customers: Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk and Dropbox
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Guest post: Uber-Style Feedback for BigLaw?

Guest post: Uber-Style Feedback for BigLaw?

Uber figures big in your life when you live on the water—as in no house, no car…yes, really on the water. That’s how my wife and I live, and Uber
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Guest post: Rolling out e-signatures at Linklaters – the inside view

Guest post: Rolling out e-signatures at Linklaters – the inside view

E-signing for me started on typically crazy day with the arrival of a tenancy agreement that I needed to sign in my inbox. I sadly accepted that I was going
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Guest post: ILTACON 2016

Guest post: ILTACON 2016

Leading IT consultant Neil Cameron of Neil Cameron Consulting Group gives us an inimitable ILTA 2016 review, covering everything from the sessions and providers that really stood out; the key issues discussed at the conference; why
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Guest post: What lawyers can learn from Google about collaboration practices

Guest post: What lawyers can learn from Google about collaboration practices

Problem: These days productive lawyering, successful onboarding of lateral hires, and effective Legal Project Management (LPM) place a huge premium on effective collaboration, and a recent Harvard Business Review study
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Guest post: Judge Peck declines to order a party to use TAR. What would an English judge have done?

Guest post: Judge Peck declines to order a party to use TAR. What would an English judge have done?

US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck has just declined to order an unwilling party to use technology-assisted review in a case called Hyles v New York City. I think that an English
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Guest post: Selecting a cloud technology vendor? Six top tips

Guest post: Selecting a cloud technology vendor? Six top tips

With the legal sector warming to cloud computing, many legal services providers are looking at adopting the technology, via applications such as document management systems (DMS), customer relationship management systems
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Guest post – Legal innovation: Five takeaways from the Legal Horizons Conference

Guest post – Legal innovation: Five takeaways from the Legal Horizons Conference

The Legal Horizons Conference in Chicago sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and consulting firm Janders Dean provided an opportunity to hear the latest in legal service and technology innovation in
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Guest post: Flex by Fenwick – A strategic approach to service delivery

Guest post: Flex by Fenwick – A strategic approach to service delivery

FLEX by Fenwick is Fenwick & West LPP‘s 90-lawyer-strong interim in-house counsel business that “is the only service backed by an AmLaw 100 firm that provides custom solutions for interim in-house legal needs.” I
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Guest post: The Microsoft Warrant appeal decision and US exceptionalism in a changing world

Guest post: The Microsoft Warrant appeal decision and US exceptionalism in a changing world

A kind person sent me the appeal decision in Microsoft v United States before the metaphorical ink was dry. Usually I could drop everything and deal with it, but its
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Guest post: Do Large Law Firms Have to Start from Scratch to Automate?

Guest post: Do Large Law Firms Have to Start from Scratch to Automate?

A recent article about aircraft production observed that automation requires starting from scratch. Wow. It made me wonder if that’s so for law firms? Airplane Makers Automate to Meet Surging Demand in the Wall
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Guest post: eDiscovery opportunities in the Brexit difficulty

Guest post: eDiscovery opportunities in the Brexit difficulty

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. Winston Churchill I spent last week doing a mini-tour of European cities, organised (and
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Guest post: The NewLaw tipping point

Guest post: The NewLaw tipping point

“That magic moment when an idea, trend or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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