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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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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Syllabus & Course Reader for Legal Technology & Informatics at Notre Dame Law School
This week my co-instructor, Jason Boehmig, and I kicked off our course on Legal Technology and Informatics at Notre Dame Law School. Our first guest speaker was Andy Jurczyk, CIO of Seyfarth Shaw. We have a great line-up of speakers running throughout the semester. Below is the updated syllabus for the course listing all of our speakers as well […]
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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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