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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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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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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Legal ROI: Quality & Innovation, Incorporating Efficiency
These are slides from a conference this week in New York City on law firm financial metrics. Legal ROI: Quality & Innovation, Incorporating Efficiency from Ron Dolin
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Slides from COLPM Futures Conference
These are the slides from my presentation at the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) Futures Conference on October 17, 2014 at Suffolk University School of Law in Boston. I looked at separate sectors of the legal profession, including law schools, legal clinics, law firms, courts, in-house, and legal regulatory bodies, and listed the top three changes […]
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