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Guest post: LegalTech Knowledge: Will Law Schools React on Time?

Guest post: LegalTech Knowledge: Will Law Schools React on Time?

The most recent reports on the future of the legal industry show law firms are in a dire need of fresh talent, and new skills. Future lawyers will have to
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Guest post: Machine Learning (AI) to Answer to Legal Questions: Blue J Legal

Guest post: Machine Learning (AI) to Answer to Legal Questions: Blue J Legal

With artificial intelligence headlines appearing daily, making sense of it is hard. I doubt it will disrupt Big Law but believe it can create significant practice efficiencies. To get beyond
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Guest Post: No surprises on either side as OpenText acquires Recommind

Guest Post: No surprises on either side as OpenText acquires Recommind

If I say that OpenText’s acquisition of Recommind, announced on 2 June, is unsurprising, that does not make it uninteresting or unimportant. There have been rumours of an acquisition by
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Guest post: The triumph of legal tech

Guest post: The triumph of legal tech

One might be forgiven for thinking that legal technology, or legal tech, is something new. With exponentially increasing levels of talk of about Artificial Intelligence use in law firms, plus
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Guest post: Technology and collaboration: bridging the divide between law firms and their clients

Guest post: Technology and collaboration: bridging the divide between law firms and their clients

The relationship between inside counsel and outside counsel is changing. Lawyers on both sides of the divide are gradually coming to terms with a new reality in which the delivery
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Guest post – Client-led Change: Toward a More Perfect Legal Market

Guest post – Client-led Change: Toward a More Perfect Legal Market

The CLOC Institute last week was phenomenal. I barely tweeted because I was so engaged by the content and conversation. I did, however, transcribe one quote that got some attention
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Guest post: An eDiscovery market size mashup

Guest post: An eDiscovery market size mashup

        Taken from a combination of public market sizing estimations* as shared in leading electronic discovery publications, posts and discussions over time, the following eDiscovery Market Size
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Guest post: Should We Settle for Incremental Change in Big Law?

Guest post: Should We Settle for Incremental Change in Big Law?

Mainstream media regularly reports on big changes in many markets. Two juxtaposed articles on the front page (below) of the Business & Tech section of the Wall Street Journal (21
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Guest post: The end of low-qualified lawyers?

Guest post: The end of low-qualified lawyers?

Deloitte’s 2016 report [Developing legal talent: Stepping into the future law firm] has garnered some attention for suggesting a ‘tipping point’ is coming to the legal profession as early as
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Guest post – Putting Deep Legal Know-How Online: Cadwalader Cabinet

Guest post – Putting Deep Legal Know-How Online: Cadwalader Cabinet

Some cabinets are bare, some are well stocked, some are chaotic, and some are organized. Cadwalader Cabinet, an online legal service covering financial regulations is not only well-stocked and well-organized,
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Guest post – From Pyramid to Rocket: How Legal Technology will Change the Business of Law

Guest post – From Pyramid to Rocket: How Legal Technology will Change the Business of Law

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group and the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession published their report on the state and future of legal industry. The key takeaways? Market forces are REAL Tendencies that many law firm
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Guest post: Reacting to the reactions to the Pyrrho predictive coding judgment

Guest post: Reacting to the reactions to the Pyrrho predictive coding judgment

My reaction to the judgment in Pyrrho? About bloody time too. There, that’s that done. Oh. You want more than that. Um.. Because, as you know, I spent my whole
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Guest post: The role of a legal operations director—an interview with Unilever’s Saswata Mukherjee

Guest post: The role of a legal operations director—an interview with Unilever’s Saswata Mukherjee

At a time of rapid change in the industry, lawyers’ roles are becoming increasingly innovative. We talk to Saswata Mukherjee, Global Legal Operations Director at Unilever, about the value an
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Guest post: The role of a legal operations director—an interview with Unilever’s Saswata Mukherjee

Guest post: The role of a legal operations director—an interview with Unilever’s Saswata Mukherjee

At a time of rapid change in the industry, lawyers’ roles are becoming increasingly innovative. We talk to Saswata Mukherjee, Global Legal Operations Director at Unilever, about the value an
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Guest Post: Business processes and security – getting the balance right

Guest Post: Business processes and security – getting the balance right

Mark Edge (pictured), UK country manager at SaaS secure collaboration provider Brainloop, shares his insights on some of the file sharing challenges and risks faced by law firms and their clients. Legal
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Guest post: A desk liberation that has led to a security nightmare

Guest post: A desk liberation that has led to a security nightmare

During the Autumn Statement back in November Chancellor George Osborne placed significant importance upon the investment in the use of technology within the justice system, including the digitalisation of courtrooms
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Guest post: The CMA study should be a case for progression – not a question of who is right or who is wrong

Guest post: The CMA study should be a case for progression – not a question of who is right or who is wrong

Following the announcement by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that is has launched a study into legal services in England and Wales, to see if they are working well for
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