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.
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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There’s an interesting controversy that you may have missed on Sunday’s Oscars. It has to do with streaming v. theater releases. On one side is a very deep-pocketed Netflix that continues churning out streaming movie after streaming movie, spending billions…
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Our future law conference is back! Every year, interest in future law topics grows. The number of legal tech start-ups continues to increase. Developments in technology enable more efficient work. And we are not just talking about speeding up the…
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“The future may be unknowable, but it’s not unthinkable.” That line from the introduction to Bruce MacEwen’s book Tomorrowland: Scenarios for law firms beyond the horizon really stuck with me. As lawyers, we should think about what is coming around…
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“Time is a very poor proxy for learning.” That statement at our Futures Conference a couple months back by Darth Vaughn, a California lawyer and principal of technology assessment and learning company Procertas, really resonated with me. Darth was advocating…
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This is the second in a three-part blog series on last month’s conference The Future is Now: Legal Services 2.017 that took place in Chicago. A dominant theme that emerged from many of the speakers’ TED-like talks was the evolving…
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