Mar 13, 2022 | Legal Innovation
Legal Innovation as a concept was kicked started following the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 when people and business around the world realised they would have to start doing more with less. It took another 5 years before innovating the profession was tackled more...
Feb 12, 2021 | Legal Innovation
I had the opportunity to reflect on the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and LegalTech 2021 Conference and on the final wrap up day explore the “stickiness of innovation post-pandemic” or essentially – what will make innovation and transformation sustainable in 2021 and beyond....
Jan 15, 2020 | Legal Innovation
As we enter a new decade – one in which the fourth industrial revolution will fundamentally change the way we create and use, store and value, exchange and interact with data – I wonder: is innovation in BigLaw firms redundant? We often hear from legal legend...
Dec 5, 2018 | Legal Innovation
In a ‘time is money’ focused legal market, cluttered with tech solutions driving efficiencies, it’s no wonder GC’s are seeking more cost efficient solutions from their legal service providers. BigLaw continues to ‘over service’,...
Sep 2, 2018 | Legal Innovation
Lawyers have become accustomed to billing by the hour: after all, “it’s the way we’ve always done things”. Or is it? Truth be told, billing by the hour is a relatively modern ‘invention’ largely attributed to Reginald Herber Smith who by 1940 in his US firm Hale and...
Jul 26, 2018 | Legal Innovation
After many years pushing the boundaries and being an outlier within BigLaw, it’s only now I’m starting to see some of the real possibilities that legal innovation creates. It’s taken almost 10 years for innovation to not only be considered as...
