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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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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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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