I recently discussed the importance of standardized quality metrics. I’ll work through the process of how to define such metrics — this is an exercise and not intended to be a definitive solution. As a starting point, I recently met with Novus Law to see what types of metrics they were using for quality control. […]
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Getting To New Law: Standardized Quality Metrics
I was at a gathering a while back that happened to include the General Counsel of a Fortune 100 company. I asked him if he measured ROI on his legal spend. “No,” he said, “I can’t.” Why not? “I can’t measure quality.” I suspect, though, that he meant “I can’t measure quality yet.” At various […]
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Big Law as Legal Fiction and the Lack of Innovation
We often come across the concept of “legal fiction” in law: corporations, survivorship, adoption, real property, etc. In particular, large law firm partnerships are a legal fiction, and the fiction becomes paramount when one views the decision-making processes involved in keeping a firm viable under today’s changing ground rules. Decisions that would be in the […]
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Teaching Legal Technology & Informatics at Notre Dame Law School
I’m very happy to have the opportunity to be teaching an updated version of my Legal Technology & Informatics class this Spring at Notre Dame Law School (with Jason Boehmig, almun of the law school and Fenwick & West). Since first creating and teaching this course at Stanford Law School in 2012, I’ve seen the field […]
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Designing a User-Friendly Patent System
I co-ran a design workshop last week focusing on navigating the Canadian patent system. It took place in Toronto, sponsored by Giuseppina D’Agostino at Osgoode Law School at York University. The organization and prep had mainly been worked out with Michelle Li of Osgoode and Margaret Hagan of Stanford (Fellow from the d.school and the […]
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Legal ROI: Quality & Innovation, Incorporating Efficiency
These are slides from a conference this week in New York City on law firm financial metrics. Legal ROI: Quality & Innovation, Incorporating Efficiency from Ron Dolin
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Slides from COLPM Futures Conference
These are the slides from my presentation at the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) Futures Conference on October 17, 2014 at Suffolk University School of Law in Boston. I looked at separate sectors of the legal profession, including law schools, legal clinics, law firms, courts, in-house, and legal regulatory bodies, and listed the top three changes […]
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Speaking at COLPM Annual Meeting
I am looking forward to giving a TED talk style presentation at the College of Law Practice Management 2014 Futures Conference. I’m calling it “I-Alladdin: A Legal Magic Carpet Ride.” If you are in the Boston area, October 16-17th, consider attending at Suffolk University Law School. I’ll post the slides from this presentation after I […]
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Keynote at Legal Tech Startup Weekend in San Francisco
I gave the keynote at the Legal Tech Startup Weekend in San Francisco. Here are the slides from that presentation.
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Inconsistency Robustness and the Law
These are slides from a presentation for the conference on Inconsistency Robustness at Stanford University, July 29-31, 2014. I presented an overview of Inconsistency Robustness and the Law. Inconsistency Robustness and the Law: A Random Walk from Ron Dolin
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