If there’s one constant, it’s change. What once was will not always be. The internet and social media have dramatically changed our jobs and how we interact. Technology has forever altered future law by furthering human rights and access to justice, while big data and analytics play an increasingly larger role in society in general and the legal world in particular.
New breakthroughs in digital law are occurring on a daily basis as legal technology becomes the standard within law firms and in-house legal departments. Economic and technological forces are factoring into regulators’ responses and rulings as consumer law firms scramble to adapt — and adopt best practices.
We don’t need to wait for the future; it’s already here. Our job is to stay on top of technology and harness its power to formulate laws that strengthen our country, serve and protect the populace and preserve respect for and adherence to the constitution.
“We start with the customer, and work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon With a decade of candles shining brightly on its birthday cake, legal practice management software company Clio continues to show it is a leader in legal…
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My job at the Commission is to be a change agent for the profession. In my travels, I am regularly reminded that the law profession is made up of many constituent parts and you can’t change the whole without the…
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I had the pleasure of closing The Future is Now: Legal Services 2.018 conference earlier this month. The day was exhilarating. From Chief Justice Karmeier’s opening remarks until the last town hall meeting, about 400 participants were challenged to incorporate…
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Don’t be deceived. Many of our conference goers casually refer to our 2Civility annually hosted conference as the Futures Conference. But one must pay particular attention to the actual name itself: The Future is Now: Legal Services 2.018 The profession…
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“Stop asking what the answer is, be the answer.” Toussaint Romain, former Assistant Public Defender of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Defender’s Office, challenged all attendees with this statement at the end of the third annual Illinois Supreme Court Commission on…
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In the last of our conference preview blogs, I highlight two of our speakers who will expand our thinking about the meaning of innovation. When we talk about innovations in law, many of us go right to technology. The advice…
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Not unlike other industries, the legal profession has amassed countless tools of technology developed to better our product – the delivery of legal services. However, we remain very inefficient with our time, resources, and intellectual capital to meet that goal….
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Do most people in this country believe the words of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance? Does our republic truly stand for “liberty and justice for all”? The gap between the words of our Pledge of Allegiance and the experience of…
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Who gets the benefit of the doubt? Too often it has been those who look or act like those in power. This is an unproductive paradigm that we cannot afford to hold up in the legal profession any longer. The…
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Humans are the most able communicators on the planet. Yet, many would argue that we just are not that good at it. We find it hard to listen intently to what the other person is saying, figure out how you…
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The advancement of legal technology and artificial intelligence is changing the nature of our work. And the pace of this technological progress is not slowing down. It’s merely the beginning of a technological revolution. As our world is changing, lawyers are adapting. They are forming task forces, launching start-ups, developing apps, and participating…
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Lawyers used to be able to wrap themselves in cloaks of thought experiments. Their worth could be measured by the number of permutations of ancient principles of law they could apply to complex hypothetical situations. Their stock in trade was…
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