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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Video: Measuring the Quality of Legal Services
Below is a video highlighting topics from the ABA National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services held at Stanford Law School last month. At 7:00 minutes is a section with comments from speakers at the Summit, including myself and Professor David Wilkins of Harvard Law School, on the topic of measuring the quality of legal services.
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Measuring the Subjective
Abstract This article describes a generalized approach to measuring subjective notions of quality. It shows how using a particular mathematical framework can yield several beneficial properties. These properties allow for measurements of complex, subjective notions of value or quality that are intuitive and easily tailored to a particular individual and data set. This example shows […]
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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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