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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Video: Implementing Innovation: The Challenges to Changing Big Law
Below is the video from a panel presentation entitled Implementing Innovation: The Challenges to Changing Big Law that was held at Stanford Law School by the Center for the Legal Profession on May 19th, 2015. I was pleased to present my work with Thomas Buley, JD/MBA candidate at Stanford on this topic and to engage with Stephen Poor, […]
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Podcast: Innovation Beyond the Legal Sphere
Below is the podcast “Innovation Beyond the Legal Sphere” from the Legal Talk Network interview following my panel presentation at the ABA National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services on May 3, 2015. I had the honor of speaking on the panel with Judit Rius Sanjuan and Denis Weil. Manny Medrano was the moderator of our […]
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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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Slides: Innovation and Emerging Technology
These are slides from my presentation on innovation and emerging technology for the Law Firm Leaders Forum held in New York on Nov. 6-7, 2014. The slides are broken down into two parts: 1. Substantive Hints of Change: Innovative Technology Popping Up, and 2. Legal Design: Structured Innovation Process and Focus on Client/User Needs.
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