I added this to my course syllabus, “Law 2.0”: This year’s class is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School, who passed away on January 23, 2020. Prof. Christensen’s seminal work, “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail”, is perhaps the single most predictive work of how […]
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Law Librarians: The Hidden Bastions of Data-Driven Innovation
It is not uncommon to hear of venture capital’s hesitancy to invest in legal tech startups. The challenges are many: a long sales cycle, cultural conservatism and entrenched processes to name a few. Within the academic community, we’ve heard a similar reason for not investing in evolving and increasingly important legal tools. A law school […]
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Death By A Thousand Cuts — In Gratitude
Larry Page once told me, back in the early days of Google, not to continue with failing projects. “Either find a way to move it forward,” he said, “or move on to something else.” This mindset is not really that different from the Serenity Prayer. The hard part, especially for social change, is the balance […]
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Legal Disruption? Uhm, It’s Complicated
A few months back, while I was still at Stanford (I’m now at Harvard Law’s CLP), I explored the nature of disruption in Big Law. I wanted to focus on Big Law because it is perhaps the component of the overall legal system at least as likely to experience disruption as any other. At the end […]
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