Barriers to tech adoption in BigLaw

PwC’s 2017 survey of large UK firms highlights the barriers to tech adoption in BigLaw writes Stephen Poor. According to PwC, 70% of the firms reported using client collaboration technology. But before you jump to the conclusion that law firms are technological savants, remember that such technology has been around a very long time; 70% feels like a low number.
 
Read Stephen’s views on the barriers to tech adoption in BigLaw – he knows a thing or two about this as the leader of Seyfarth Shaw for many years.

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Posted by on Jun 1, 2018 in BigLaw firms, Technology | 1 comment

Legal transformation requires (a lot) more than tech

Mark Cohen contributes Legal transformation requires (a lot) more than tech, adding to Ken Grady‘s recent contributions. I admit to exercising editorial prerogative and adding (a lot) to Mark’s title. I did so based on research my consultancy released earlier this month: Client-led innovation in legal services. One stunning statistic from the report justified (a lot): When clients are asked what comes first to mind when thinking about innovation and legal services, only 15% answer ‘technology’.

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Posted by on Apr 26, 2018 in BigLaw firms, Technology | 0 comments

Classic: Technology and the future of the law

Technology and the future of the law is published as a Classic on Dialogue on Remaking Law Firms in early March to coincide with our 2018 Client Choice Awards. You may know that Neota Logic is the sponsor of the Law Firms category in the Awards.

I’ve designated Technology and the future of the law a Classic because Michael’s message and argument are so true as the passage of time is proving – and yet the evidence is that the large majority (perhaps as much as 85%, in Bill Henderson’s rendition of the innovation of diffusion curve below) of law firms are not listening.   

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Posted by on Mar 7, 2018 in Future, Technology | 0 comments

Innovating with technology: Advice from vendor CEOs

With Innovating with technology: Advice from vendor CEOs, Catherine J. Moynihan examines the vendors’ perspective, which is too-often neglected in supply chains. This is all the more reason to listen to Catherine’s outstanding view of law departments and BigLaw firms innovating with technology from the insider-outsiders’ angle

Catherine writes for Dialogue in this re-post from Inside Voice, a new Association of Corporate Counsel column featuring articles authored by the leaders of the ACC’s  legal management services department. The objective of the  Inside Voice column is to reveal insight on the pressing trends affecting in-house legal practice and corporate legal departments across the globe.

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Posted by on Feb 20, 2018 in BigLaw firms, Digital strategy, Technology | 1 comment

Predicting the future of legal services

This post was originally part of an online symposium on Prawfsblawg focused on two books: Richard Susskind & Daniel Susskind, The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts and Gillian Hadfield, Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent it for a Complex Global Economy.

The reflections on Predicting the future of legal services contain three parts. 

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2018 in Digital strategy, Future, Technology | 0 comments

Future law: Legal technology / IT predictions for 2018

With Future law: Legal technology / IT predictions for 2018, Brian Inkster of Scotland joins Dialogue community with his post-Hogmanay predictions on what technology holds (or doesn’t) for legal services in 2018

Amongst Brian’s many distinctive traits is his devotion to crofting and crofting law, the significance of which for all law firms, I will blog about later in the year.  

Over to Brian… 

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Posted by on Jan 16, 2018 in Technology | 0 comments