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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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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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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