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Legally Innovative is refreshingly different

Legally Innovative by Anna Lozynski is a refreshingly different and practical exhortation to ‘get with’ innovation for lawyers of all stripes everywhere.

The Foreword by Scott A. Westfahl of Harvard Law School appropriately invokes Martin Luther’s 1521 exhortation to ‘sin boldly’, setting the scene for a scintillating read.

Posted by George Beaton on Oct 17, 2018 in Book review, Future, Innovation | 0 comments

Agile working and the legal sector: Towards a clearer definition

In Agile working and the legal sector: Towards a clearer definition Katherine Thomas helps make sense of some the jargon that continues to confuse lawyers seeking to understand what’s happening in legal services and think about how to respond. Written two years ago, the need for this clarification remains cogent today.

Posted by Katherine Thomas on Oct 3, 2018 in Business models, Future | 2 comments

At the bleeding edge of law

At the bleeding edge of law is contributed by two who’ve been there and done that, David Perla and Sanjay Kamlani. The pair is known for co-founding Pangea3, an LPO pioneer, in 2004 and successfully exiting in 2012.

In this post, they explain why they believe the long aversion to leveraging capital in law is changing fast.

Posted by David Perla on Sep 5, 2018 in Future, Innovation | 0 comments

Deep thinking on the theory and practice of law

Ken Grady’s exercise in deep thinking on the theory and practice of law should be read, nay imbibed, by every practicing and aspirant lawyer, law firm leader, law school teacher and all others who care about the role of lawyers in society. Remember Philip Wood’s riveting The Fall of the Priests and the Rise of the Lawyers? If Ken and his kindred spirits are not heard, we may well be reading the sequel, The Fall of the Lawyers and the Rise of the…

Posted by Kenneth A. Grady on Jul 4, 2018 in Future, Lawyers | 1 comment

Seeing legal services as a kaleidoscope

As my colleagues and I were researching Remaking Law Firms: Why & How we realized we were seeing the legal services landscape as a kaleidoscope. This vision became one of the pillars of our 2016 book in which Chapter 5 is titled The 2025 Kaleidoscope Scenario.

Less than three years on from the publication of Remaking Law Firms, the kaleidoscope is no longer a futurist’s scenario; it’s already here.

Posted by George Beaton on Jun 29, 2018 in Future, Remaking Law Firms book | 0 comments