Podcasts about legal evolution

Welcome to "AI Lawyer Talking Tech," where we explore the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in the legal industry. In today's episode, we'll delve into the revolutionary impact of AI in the legal sector, from the challenge of measuring the effectiveness of generative AI (GenAI) - as emphasized by legal technology expert Ken Crutchfield - to the groundbreaking initiatives undertaken by top law firms such as Clifford Chance. We'll also discuss the legal implications of AI, such as data breaches and copyright infringement cases, while exploring the innovative ventures shaping the future of legal technology. Join us as we uncover the opportunities and challenges of AI in the legal field and examine the transformative potential of these technological advancements. How Will You Measure Your AI?29 Feb 2024Above The LawAAA® Launches AAAi Lab Podcast on AI's Impact in Law with CEO Bridget McCormack and Host Zach Abramowitz29 Feb 2024Morningstar.comTop Magic Circle Firm Takes A Chance On Artificial Intelligence29 Feb 2024Above The LawSay Hello to Amplify: Your New Legal Marketing Agency29 Feb 2024Morningstar.comLaw firm reports data breach affecting more than 325,000 people29 Feb 2024Record by Recorded FutureNews Outlets Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement29 Feb 2024JDJournalLegal Tech Entrepreneur and Former Kirkland & Ellis Partner Unveil Groundbreaking AI Venture29 Feb 2024JDJournalCall for Contributions: Special Issue--"Rhizomatic Law: Understanding the Linearity and Pendulum of Legal Evolution" in Undecidabilities and Law - The Coimbra Journal for Legal Studies29 Feb 2024Law at the End of the DayAI-powered contract analysis29 Feb 2024Financial Thomson ReutersLaw Society Library Introduces AI Subject Guide29 Feb 2024CryptopolitanNew Hampshire Lawmakers Ponder Taking Action on AI29 Feb 2024Government Technology USBloomberg Law Highlights Career Development Resources for Law Students29 Feb 2024Morningstar.comNew Martindale-Avvo 'Connect Experience' Marketing Platform Unifies Key Services, Empowering Attorneys and Law Firms To Increase Visibility and Reach29 Feb 2024Morningstar.comTime Law: A New Paradigm for Small Law Firm Efficiency and Growth29 Feb 2024Florida Bar NewsMarqeta Announces New SMB Credit Card Customer AffiniPay, Delivering A Flexible and Customized Credit Offering29 Feb 2024Fintech Finance NewsPablo Arredondo on the One-Year Anniversary of CoCounsel29 Feb 20243 Geeks and a Law Blog4 universities shaping the future for LLM graduates29 Feb 2024StudyInternational.comROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges' Decision-Making Patterns29 Feb 2024LawSitesIs Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI29 Feb 2024Kluwer Copyright BlogOpenAI Faces Legal Challenges Over Copyright Infringement Claims29 Feb 2024CryptopolitanOpenAI faces New York Times hacking allegations while exploring deals with Tumblr29 Feb 2024Tech Wire AsiaThe future-focused legal team: Part 328 Feb 2024Financial Thomson ReutersCourt personnel remain unsure about Gen AI usage, want accuracy assurances29 Feb 2024Thomson Reuters InstitutePEW: A New Age of Enlightenment? A New Threat to Humanity? Experts Imagine the Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 204029 Feb 2024Stephen's LighthouseLegalOn Introduces Generative AI Assistant for Contract Work29 Feb 2024Legal Tech BlogUnlocking the Code to a Successful Acquisition of AI Technology29 Feb 2024Thompson Coburn LLPNew Executive Order to Block Businesses From Transferring Data to China and Other Countries of Concern – 4 Steps to Comply29 Feb 2024Fisher & Phillips LLP

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Drinkable water is a precious commodity. But as population growth, aging infrastructure, drought, and climate change pose challenges to freshwater quality and quantity in America, the safety and amount of water in parts of the U.S. is in question. With more than 140,000 separate public water systems in the country, how can federal, state, and local governments, along with the various water authorities, take on this challenge alone? In this episode we hear from global water and natural resources expert Barton “Buzz” Thompson, about this new book Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis —and his recommendations for how to solve the freshwater crisis in the U.S.Connect:Episode Transcripts >>> Stanford Legal Podcast WebsiteStanford Legal Podcast >>> LinkedIn PageRich Ford >>>  Twitter/XPam Karlan >>> Stanford Law School PageStanford Law School >>> Twitter/XStanford  Law Magazine >>> Twitter/XLinks:Buzz Thompson >>> Stanford Law School PageLiquid Assets: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis.Paul Milgrom & Auction TheoryChapter Timestamps:(00:00:00) Introduction & Water's Scarcity Hosts Rich Ford and Pam Karlan introduce guest, Buzz Thompson, an expert in water law and author of Liquid Assets(00:01:18) Water Challenges TodayThe scarcity of fresh water globally, and the multiple crises facing water resources: uneven distribution, climate change and the depletion of groundwater resources.(00:04:30) Water Infrastructure What is water infrastructure in the United States, the current state of it, and the repairs and upgrades required and being undertaken.(00:07:14) Updating Infrastructure & 21st-Century Technology Examples of modern wastewater treatment methods, advocating for resource recovery centers and outlining their potential benefits by adopting 21st century technology.(00:09:08) Fragmented Water Systems The complexity of water systems, & the challenges created by small water systems (00:12:00) Water Rights & Legal Structures The current legal structure of water rights in the USA,and defining the goals of both protecting water as a public resource, and a private commodity.(00:16:25) Private Sector's Role & Future Solutions Buzz discusses water markets internationally, and the private sector's role in innovation, technology, and financing to bridge the gap in water management. (00:18:59) Challenges with Outdated Water Rights Rich & Buzz  discuss the challenges created by the current water rights model, and the necessity, possibilities, and challenges for legal reform.(00:21:18) Proposal for Tradeable Water Rights The concept of converting existing water rights into more easily transferable ones similar to real property, in order to eliminate the current challenges.(00:25:49) Changing a System of Water RightsAustralia's successful reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, where water rights were revamped for better tradeability and how they safeguarded the environment.(00:27:31) Conclusion

The Legal Influencers series continues as Tim Haley sits down for a conversation with William Henderson, professor and Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. William is the founder and principal editor of Legal Evolution, an online publication that blends theory, data, and detailed examples of successful legal industry innovation. This publication is a dynamic hub of research spanning a range of topics, including the business of law, leadership in the law, and the economics shaping the legal profession.William sheds light on several fascinating aspects of his work, including: The pressing business challenges faced by the legal industry today, from providing corporate clients with cost-effective legal services to ensuring access to representation for individuals;How Legal Evolution began and how applied research and meaningful dialogue can address issues within the legal space;William's own law career story, which began after he realized his passion for negotiating contracts in his role as a firefighter paramedic union representative; andA sneak peek at his upcoming book which presents case studies of law firms as modern business organizations.We dedicate this episode to the memory of Sergio Agustín Castillo Hernández, our talented producer who passed away unexpectedly over the summer. Sergio's invaluable contributions to our podcast remain etched in Leveraging Latitude's journey, and his enduring enthusiasm and consummate professionalism continue to inspire us.A podcast by Latitude Legal - Flexible Legal Talent.

Tom Baldwin discusses the legal industry's transformative journey of data integration and AI adoption, the evolution from gut instinct to data-driven decisions, the critical role of data governance, and how law firms are maturing their data practices: Firms want to break their data out of silos to see an integrated picture Demand for data-driven insights and improved productivity is climbing Firms are investing in data scientists, IT, and innovation groups as they realize the potential competitive pressures due to AI KM programs are critical for the effective utilization of AI Firms must strike the right balance between AI and traditional processes and technologies and acknowledge that AI adoption will take time and involve a gradual transition.  

Embark on an enlightening journey through legal corridors with Kapil Balhara on this episode of Global Demos. Whether you're aspiring to conquer the #UGCNET, #NTANET, or aiming to decode the #UGCNET2021, this episode illuminates the path of legal development through the judicial process. Join Kapil as he navigates the intricate landscape of courts and their pivotal role in shaping legal frameworks. For those delving into the #NETexam2021, this podcast bridges legal concepts with practical exam insights. Kapil unravels the significance of #NTAUGCNET and #CSIRNET2021 in the realm of legal education. Get a comprehensive understanding of the judicial process, where courts act as sentinels of the law, ensuring adherence and resolving disputes. Gain insights into how courts interpret laws, clarifying nuances and addressing inconsistencies. Discover the tools like "stare decisis" and "binding precedent" that courts employ to navigate legal complexities. Whether you're celebrating the #UGCNETresult2020 or anticipating the #CSIRUGCNET outcome, this podcast episode addresses the ever-evolving legal landscape. Dive into the intricacies of #UGCNETexam2021 and #NTANET2021, while uncovering the role of #CSIRNTA in shaping legal academia. From exploring the foundational principles of Article 141, 142, and 143 to understanding the dynamics of #UGCapproveduniversity and #UGCNTANET, this episode equips you with knowledge that bridges the theoretical and practical aspects of the law. Discover the implications of the #CSIRNETresult2020 and stay updated with the latest #UGCnews. Tune in to Global Demos for a captivating dialogue that intertwines legal evolution with the world of competitive exams. Kapil Balhara's insights empower you to comprehend the legal nuances and navigate both the judicial process and the exam hall with confidence. Keywords: UGC, UGC NET, NTA NET, UGC NET 2021, NET exam 2021, NET exam, NTA UGC NET, CSIR NET 2021, UGC NET result 2020, CSIR UGC NET, UGC NET exam 2021, NTA NET 2021, CSIR NTA, NTA UGC NET result 2020, CSIR NET exam 2021, UGC NET exam, UGC NET 2020, UGC website, UGC approved university, UGC NTA NET, CSIR NET result 2020, UGC news, UGC NET result, legal developments, judicial process, Global Demos, legal evolution, legal expert, competitive exams.

Over the course of 2022, the principals of LexFusion conferred with 435 law departments and 250 law firms. Why? Simply put, because that is what the company does. It is a go-to-market company that defines its purpose as “to grease the gears of commerce and rapidly increase the adoption of legal innovation.” On behalf of a group of curated legal innovation companies, it works with legal departments and law firms to help them understand how innovative products can benefit them.  As a result of those conversations, they came out of 2022 with a unique perspective on the legal market. In a recent post at the Legal Evolution blog, they discussed their take-aways from those conversations and shared some of what they have been telling law departments and lawyers.  “We executed NDAs with multiple law departments and law firms so we could dig beneath surface-level discussions of practical innovation into the painful realities of budgets and politics,” they wrote. “We uncovered far more chronic pain than even we anticipated.” What was the source of that chronic pain and what advice did LexFusion offer? In this episode of LawNext, two of the cofounders of LexFusion, Joseph Borstein, CEO, and Casey Flaherty, chief strategy officer, join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss the year that just ended and what it portends for the year ahead.    Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.  Paradigm, home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and LollyLaw; the e-payments platform Headnote; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks.   If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

To close out this year, we are delighted to welcome back an old friend, Jae Um. Jae is one of the most sought-after strategy executives in the legal industry. She is the founder and executive director of Six Parsecs, an insights firm for the legal vertical. In addition to strategic consulting for law firm leadership, Jae serves on advisory boards for emerging legal tech companies, including LegalMation, Datana, and LexFusion. Jae got her start in Big Law at Seyfarth, where she served in a progression of high-impact roles in client service innovation and strategic growth. She then went on to serve as director of pricing strategy for Baker McKenzie worldwide. She is a contributing author to Legal Evolution, The American Lawyer, and other publications covering the legal industry. In her spare time, Jae has created a series called Lawyering at Scale on Luminate+. Her work is consistently brilliant. Jae was one of our first guests on the podcast when we launched in 2021, and we are thrilled to have her back for a fascinating conversation about her life on the road, the role of empathy in her consulting practice, the cultural commonalities of the most successful law firms, and how she sees the landscape for the profession unfolding in 2023.

In this episode, Amy interviews Professor Bill Henderson of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.  Prof. Henderson's research focuses primarily on the empirical analysis of the legal profession and has appeared in leading legal journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Texas Law Review.  He regularly publishes articles in The American Lawyer, The ABA Journal, and The National Law Journal.  His observations on the legal market are also frequently quoted in the mainstream press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, and National Public Radio. Based on his research and public speaking, Professor Henderson was included on the National Law Journal's list of The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America (complied every ten years).  In 2015 and 2016, he was named the Most Influential Person in Legal Education by The National Jurist magazine. In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Henderson has participated in several legal innovation initiatives: 2018 to present: Co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP, “i-flip”), a nonprofit that designs and delivers curricula and training for T-shaped legal professions (i.e., law combined with data, process, technology, design principles, and business). 2017 to present: Founder and editor of Legal Evolution, an online applied research publication focused on successful legal industry innovation. 2010-2016: Co-founder of Lawyer Metrics, an applied research company that helps lawyers and law firms use data to make better operational and strategic decisions. Lawyer Metrics (now LawyerMetrix) was acquired by AccessLex Institute in 2015.  Additional links mentioned in the podcast: On diffusion theory: https://www.legalevolution.org/2019/06/scoring-your-innovation-098/   On the CRT: https://www.legalevolution.org/2019/06/is-access-to-justice-a-design-problem-099/

“You're marrying a firefighter. That's all I'll ever be.  I'm never going to finish college.”  That's what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and Bill is now Professor William Henderson, the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years. Professor Henderson is also the moving force behind Legal Evolution, an online publication focusing on changes in the legal industry with the stated mission of providing lawyers, legal educators, and allied professionals with high-quality information to solve very difficult industry-specific problems. It was almost true that Professor Henderson did not finish college. He dropped out and got a job as a firefighter. But… it was only because he was a firefighter that he ended up going to law school. In the early 90s, during firefighter union negotiations, Bill's union rep asked him to tag along and take notes. Foreshadowing his career as a professor, not only did Bill take notes, he also did in depth research into prior collective bargaining agreements and into state law so the union team could strike a better bargain. In the end, Bill moved on from note taker to union vice president and eventually took over as lead negotiator. Because of all of this, Bill decided to go to law school at the University of Chicago and became a legal professor. Since entering academia, Bill has done a ton of research and writing on the state of legal services in general, but more specifically, how legal innovation can improve it. In a nutshell, Bill's research has determined that more and more legal work is focused on commercial law at the expense of “PeopleLaw” –a term he uses to describe legal work done on behalf of individuals (like criminal law, domestic relations law and the like). 50 years ago, legal work was pretty much split 50/50 between PeopleLaw and commercial law. Now that division is 75/25 in favor of commercial law which is causing an access to justice issue.  There is a great need for legal services related to PeopleLaw, but it is too expensive or just doesn't exist. However, Professor Henderson thinks there are a few things the legal community can do to address this problem: Better use of project management techniques, use of allied professionals, and leveraging legal technology.

In this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Carr, a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream.  As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr disrupted how legal departments hire and compensate outside counsel, creating models that today are considered standard operating procedure at many companies.  After retiring from FMC in 2014, he went on to work with Valorem Law, one of the earliest law firms to focus on making alternative fee arrangements the norm. Valorem became the progenitor of ElevateNext, the law firm affiliate of the global law company Elevate. Carr returned to a GC role in 2019 at Univar Solutions, where he sought to build the law department of the future. Now retired, he teaches, writes, and pursues his hobby of driving race cars.  Last week, in part one of the interview, Carr spoke with host Bob Ambrogi about how he landed on the “radical fringe” of reforming legal services, and he discussed some of the trailblazing initiatives he created at FMC, including the Alliance Counsel Engagement System, or ACES, a method of hiring outside counsel so unique that he was encouraged to patent it. In this second installment of the interview, Carr discusses another of the initiatives for which he is known, the Litigation Value Challenge, which came to be emulated by the Association of Corporate Counsel and many of its members. Carr and Ambrogi also dive into his recent post at Bill Henderson's Legal Evolution blog, Four Waves of Change in #LawLand, in which he lays out his framework for making the legal system better.  Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.  Legalweek 2022, returning in person to New York City March 8-11, 2022, Legalweek will bring together thousands of legal leaders for a week-long program featuring TED-style focus talks, workshop boot camps, and panel sessions across 21 tracks and 74 sessions. Paradigm, home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, and MerusCase, and e-payments platform Headnote. If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

One of the most innovative general counsel ever, Jeffrey Carr describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Yet many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream.  As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr disrupted how legal departments hire and compensate outside counsel, creating models that today are considered standard operating procedure at many companies.  After retiring from FMC in 2014, he went on to work with Valorem Law, one of the earliest law firms to focus on making alternative fee arrangements the norm. Valorem became the progenitor of ElevateNext, the law firm affiliate of the global law company Elevate. Carr returned to a GC role in 2019 at Univar Solutions, where he sought to build the law department of the future. Now retired, he teaches, writes, and pursues his hobby of driving race cars.  In this first of a two-part interview, Carr joins host Bob Ambrogi to talk about how he landed on the “radical fringe” of reforming legal services and to discuss some of the initiatives he created at FMC, including the Alliance Counsel Engagement System, or ACES, a method of hiring outside counsel so unique that he was encouraged to patent it.  They also discuss Carr's recent post on the Legal Evolution blog, Four Waves of Change in #LawLand, in which he lays out his framework for making the legal system better.  Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.  Paradigm, home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, and MerusCase, and e-payments platform Headnote. Woodpecker, legal document automation for solo and small firms.  A reminder that we are on Patreon. Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests.

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Today's guest is the one and only Bill Henderson. In his day job, he's a professor of law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law where he holds the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession. Bill is a prolific writer and speaker on the legal market who is well known for assembling some of the best and brightest thinkers on the legal industry in his blog, Legal Evolution. Bill has been a longtime friend of Seyfarth, and he's worked with the firm on our own innovation journey. Listen in to today's conversation to hear: - How Bill's outsider perspective as a firefighter and paramedic shaped his career in the law and colored his assessment of law firm hierarchy. - How a simple proposal to teach a class on the business of law firms in 2003 revolutionized the law firm curriculum. - And why he thinks the legal market today is a lot like the automotive market of the turn of the 20th century.

In this episode of Talk Justice, moderator Jim Sandman, President Emeritus of LSC, leads a panel discussion on regulatory reform and how it can expand access to justice. Two leading jurists from states in the vanguard of reform, Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos "Deno" Himonas and Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann Timmer, explore the impact of changes such as licensing paraprofessionals to provide legal services and easing restrictions on fee-sharing and non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Bill Hendersson, a law professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the editor of Legal Evolution, surveys the relationship between the current regulatory system and the dysfunction in the legal market while Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri discusses how the current regulatory system hampers access to justice and contributes to racial injustice.

Eric DeChant isn't a lawyer. He's a recent graduate of the novel Master of Science in Law program at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, which aims to give STEM professionals (like Eric) enough grounding in law to accelerate them into careers as allied legal professionals but not so much that they qualify to become licensed lawyers. Mike Madison interviews Eric to hear how he found the Northwestern program, what he thought of his time in school, and his plans for a future in law - though not as a lawyer. Here is the background to Eric DeChant's story, from Legal Evolution. Eric has started a voluntary organization titled the American Society of Legal Engineers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ken Jones is the Chief Technologist of Tanebaum Keale LLP. He's also the Chief Operating Officer of Xerdict Group LLC, a subsidiary of Tanenbaum Keale LLP. Ken has more than 18 years experience in the legal technology space, in-house, at a mid-sized law firm. He's written extensively on #legaltech topics for publications like the Legal Executive Institute and Legal Evolution. Ken joined Nick Rishwain in this discussion about purchasing from legaltech vendors. He offers a different perspective from other guests who have biglaw purchasing experience. Also, as he develops technology in-house, he has a different perspective on purchasing from smaller legaltech #startups. Ken maintains an entrepreneurial perspective and an open mind. He's familiar with the development of software and how to approach information professionals when selling your software or service to a #lawfirm. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed our chat with Ken. More about Ken Jones & Tanenbaum Keale LLP: Ken Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethej.... Ken Jones on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realkenjones. Tanenbaum Keale LLP website: https://www.tktrial.com/. Xerdict Group LLC: https://www.xerdict.com/.

Episode 17 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Bill Henderson, Law Professor, Editor of Legal Evolution and Interim Director of Development, IFLP In this, one of the most wide-ranging episodes of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), Charlie Uniman welcomes Bill Henderson. Bill is a law professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, editor of the online publication, Legal Evolution (www.legalevolution.org) and Interim Director of the Institute for the non-profit Future of Law Practice (IFLIP) (www.futurelawpractice.org). Charlie and Bill kick off the podcast with Bill describing his interesting journey from college to law school to a law professorship (interesting, especially, because of Bill's spending over a decade between starting and finishing college as a fireman and EMT in the Cleveland area). Next, Bill discusses IFLP's mission, which consists principally on offering online and real-life boot camps (for law students and mid-career professionals) and working internships (at law firms and legal departments) that aim to "equip lawyers with the knowledge and skills that are essential in modern legal practice." In this regard, Bill talks about educating so-called "T-shaped" lawyers who can supplement legal (doctrinal) knowledge and skills with skills that involve technology, design, business decision-making, data analytics and project management. Bill also describes how the traditional "one-to-one consultative" aspects of law practice have involved to include a more "one-to-many" way of practicing law. We learn from Bill about IFLP's ambition to take its programs to a much larger scale than they operate at currently and IFLP's efforts to raise the funds necessary to achieve that scale. Given Bill's role as a law professor, Bill and Charlie turn next to legal education and consider what have been both the accelerators and the retardants of change in how law students are taught in most US law schools. Bill distinguishes how so-called "top tier" law schools can persist in avoiding, to a greater degree perhaps than other law schools, classroom teaching in areas that, while outside the area of traditional doctrinal learning, can have a positive impact on a law student's readiness to practice law upon leaving school for a law firm or an in-house legal department. Bill draws a distinction between (i) on the one hand, the AmLaw top 150 law firms that hire predominantly from the top-tier schools to do clients' "bet the company" lawyering and (ii) on the other hand, in-house legal departments and the remainder of the law firms in the US that handle more day-to-day, but vital, operational client work. With this distinction in mind, Bill calls out the day-to-day work as a "contested area," where an client desire for efficiency and, therefore, cost-effectiveness allow in-house counsel and law firms outside the AmLaw 150 to battle successfully with the upper-echelon firms in garnering legal work and, thereby, to increase hiring demand for law students trained in disciplines that enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Finally, Bill delves deeply into what impedes the adoption of innovative approaches to law practice at so many law firms (and even in-house legal departments) both inside and outside the US. Bill and Charlie talk about cultural and financial barriers to innovation and discuss the impact of exogenous factors (like the worldwide financial crisis that began around 2008 and the worldwide COVID crisis) that can act as forcing functions for the adoption of innovations in the practice of law and the business of delivering legal services. As Bill, quoting a friend, puts it: "necessity [in the form of exogenous factors] is not only the mother of invention, it's also the mother of adoption."

We have discussed the concept of the T-Shaped Lawyer on previous episodes, but we jump into a new concept this week called the Delta Model. Alyson Carrel from Northwestern Law School joins returning guest Cat Moon from Vanderbilt Law School's Program on Law and Innovation to discuss this intriguing idea of helping lawyers understand the pyramid of skills surrounding understanding the law, business & operations, and personal effectiveness. We suggest taking a look at this primer from Carrel, Moon, and other members of the Delta Model working group (Natalie Runyon, Shellie Reid, and Gabe Teninbaum) from Bill Henderson's blog, Legal Evolution. This model of three principles, along with the ability to shift the center of importance for each skill set, helps explain, and guide the overall needs of the legal industry. Carrel and Moon give us an insider's view of the model and explain why this concept will help with the holistic training of law students as well as practicing attorneys. Information Inspirations In the article, Innovation, Disruption, and Impact: Should We All Jump Aboard the Legal Tech Hype Train? by Peter Melicharek and Franziska Lehner, the authors talk about the need to unwind the PR from the actual technology in the legal industry. The primary benefit of technology is to assist in achieving results by eliminating mundane tasks, and assisting in getting to better legal results, faster, and cheaper. Once again... read the Delta Model primer. It's so important, it is inspirational. Can law firms actually create a four-day work week? One smaller firm in Florida says yes. ALM's Dylan Jackson interviews the managing partner of Orlando based Benenati Law about how he has created a four-day work week, and three-day weekends, and the benefits they've discovered of this alternative work model. A recent Microsoft survey found a 40% increase in productivity in some of their four-day work schedules. Perhaps it could do the same at firms?? If you're looking for a great podcast that discusses UX and User Design, then Wireframe has just what you need. Listen, Subscribe, Comment Contact us anytime by tweeting us at @gebauerm or @glambert. Or, you can call The Geek in Review hotline at 713-487-7270 and leave us a message. You can email us at geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com. As always, the great music you hear on the podcast is from Jerry David DeCicca, thanks Jerry!

Law Technology Now host Ralph Baxter welcomes Bill Henderson to discuss his career and current work as co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP). Bill shares highlights from his professional journey from blue collar worker to law professor and legal researcher and writer and then discusses the motivation behind the founding of IFLP. In today’s quickly changing legal landscape, IFLP facilitates programs and internships that help both law students and practicing lawyers develop skills that complement traditional legal education. Bill Henderson is a professor and Stephen F. Burns Chair if the Profession at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, editor of Legal Evolution, and co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice.  Special thanks to our sponsors, Headnote.

What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime? How were these themes addressed In the recently adopted Paris Rulebook? And what are the principal legal issues going forward? The talk will review the legal evolution of the international climate change regime, and preview the upcoming conference of the parties (COP25) in Santiago in December. Daniel Bodansky is Regents' Professor at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He served as Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. State Department from 1999-2001. His book, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, received the 2011 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book that year in the field of international environmental studies. His latest book, International Climate Change Law, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2017, and received the 2018 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law as the best book in a specialized area of international law published the previous year. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate of Harvard (A.B.), Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale (J.D.).

Kennan Institute Deputy Director William Pomeranz is interviewed by Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz at the 2019 REECAS Northwest Conference (ASEEES) about his book "Law and the Russian State: Russia's Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Putin." From the publisher: "Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an instrument of power. In Law and the Russian State, William E. Pomeranz examines Russia's legal evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, addressing the continuities and disruptions of Russian law during the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet. The book covers key themes, including: * Law and empire * Law and modernization * The politicization of law * The role of intellectuals and dissidents in mobilizing the law * The evolution of Russian legal institutions * The struggle for human rights * The rule-of-law * The quest to establish the law-based state It also analyzes legal culture and how Russians understand and use the law. With a detailed bibliography, this is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of how Russian society and the Russian state have developed in the last 350 years." https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/law-and-the-russian-state-9781474224246/

In January, the world’s largest law firm, Baker McKenzie, announced that it had hired two leading thinkers on legal innovation, Jae Um and D. Casey Flaherty, to help the firm “enhance and reimagine the delivery of legal services to global clients.” They join a team led by David Cambria, who last year left Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland to become the firm’s global director of legal operations. On this episode of LawNext, Um and Flaherty join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss their new roles and share their thoughts on innovation at Baker McKenzie and in the delivery of legal services.   Um, who joined Baker McKenzie as director of pricing strategy, has more than 12 years of cross-functional experience in legal business. Most recently, she was founder and executive director of Six Parsecs, a company that applied research rigor, business analytics and storytelling to help legal businesses achieve success. Before that, she was at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, where she was director of strategic planning and analysis and, earlier, director of special projects. She is a regular contributor to the publication Legal Evolution. Flaherty, who joined Baker McKenzie as director of legal project management, first rose to prominence while corporate counsel at Kia Motors for creating the Legal Tech Audit, a competency-based learning platform focused on the core technology tools of legal practice, and later the Service Delivery Review, using metrics and benchmarking to drive structured dialogue and continuous improvement between law departments and outside counsel. Based on these concepts, he founded Procertas, providing technology training and benchmarking to law firms, law schools, and other organizations. NEW: We are now on Patreon! Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests. Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.

For some two decades, Mark Chandler has been a leading voice for innovation and technology in the operation of legal departments and the delivery of legal services. Executive vice president and chief legal officer at technology giant Cisco, he has been the company’s top lawyer since 2001 and a member of its legal department since 1996, when Cisco acquired Stratacom, where he had been general counsel. In 2010, The National Law Journal named Chandler one of the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade, and in 2013, American Lawyer numbered him among the Top 50 Big Law Innovators of the Last 50 Years. In 2017, the Forum on Legal Evolution honored Chandler with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, writing that he “has been at the forefront of legal department innovation and thought leadership, challenging the industry to consider new and better ways to serve internal and external clients.” Chandler joins host Bob Ambrogi to talk about innovation at Cisco, whose legal department is often cited as a model for others, as well as in legal departments generally and in the delivery of legal services. Other topics they discuss include privacy, the rise of legal operations, alternative legal services providers, and current technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. NEW - Q&A with our listeners: We are now on Patreon! Subscribe to our page to access show transcripts, as well as to be notified of upcoming guests. Then, submit questions before recording date for our guests to answer on the air. Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we are joined by William Pomeranz, Deputy Director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, who discusses his new book Law and the Russian State: Russia's Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Pomeranz examines continuities and disruptions of Russian law during the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

Should legal ethics rules be changed to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers? So controversial is the question that it was major news in July when the State Bar of California voted to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue. What spurred the bar to take this action was the Legal Market Landscape Report it commissioned from William D. Henderson, professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, who is Bob Ambrogi’s guest on today’s episode to discuss his findings and recommendations. Henderson’s report makes the case that the legal profession is failing in its core mission of serving those who need legal services. The situation has brought the profession to an inflection point that requires action by regulators, Henderson says. The most effective regulatory action would be to ease rules on non-lawyer investment in order to allow lawyers to more closely collaborate with professionals from other disciplines, such as technology, process design, data analytics, accounting, marketing and finance. “By modifying the ethics rules to facilitate this close collaboration,” Henderson writes in his report, “the legal profession will accelerate the development of one-to-many productized legal solutions that will drive down overall costs; improve access for the poor, working and middle class; improve the predictability and transparency of legal services; aid the growth of new businesses; and elevate the stature and reputation of the legal profession as one serving the broader needs of society.” At Maurer, Henderson holds the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession. In 2017, he founded Legal Evolution, an online publication that chronicles successful innovation within the legal industry. A prolific author and speaker, he focuses primarily on the empirical analysis of the legal profession. Among his honors, he was named by the ABA Journal as a Legal Rebel, included on the National Law Journal’s list of The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, and in both 2015 and 2016 named the Most Influential Person in Legal Education by The National Jurist magazine. Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.

Was macht ein typischer Jurastudent in seinen letzten Semestern? – Richtig, er geht ins Rep. So auch Dr. Jochen Brandhoff, der erste Gast unserer German Legal Tech Talks Reihe. Allerdings ist er aus einem anderen Grund ins Rep gegangen – er hat es mit einem Partner gekauft, um die Inhalte onlinefähig zu machen. Jus2Click hieß das vermutlich erste rein webbasierte juristische Repetitorium. Das war aber nicht die letzte Berührung des heutigen Gesprächspartners mit Disruption und Innovation: Jochen Brandhoff veranstaltet die Kongressmesse LEGAL ®EVOLUTION – The European LegalTech Expo & Congress. Der Anspruch ist nicht gering: LEGAL ®EVOLUTION soll zur jährlichen Leitveranstaltung der digitalen Transformation des Rechts in Europa werden. Und das Beste: spontan hat Jochen Brandhoff noch ein besonderes Angebot für Lawyers on Fire im Gespräch gemacht. Anhören lohnt sich also! Hier die Fragen an Jochen Brandhoff: Sie sind Rechtsanwalt und haben schon zu Referendarzeiten ein Legal Tech Unternehmen im E-Learning Bereich gegründet und erfolgreich verkauft. Woher kommt Ihre Begeisterung für Legal Tech? Mit der Legal Evolution starten Sie dieses Jahr in Frankfurt die erste Legal Tech Messe in Deutschland. Warum sollten Legal Tech Interessierte dorthin gehen und nicht auf einen der zahlreichen anderen Kongresse und Veranstaltungen zu dem Thema, die in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz angeboten werden? Wie sehen Sie den Stand von Legal Tech in Deutschland? Welche Arten von Technik nehmen Kanzleien und Unternehmen heute schon an und nutzen sie? Welche Grenzen sehen Sie auf dem deutschen Rechtsmarkt, noch mehr technische Lösungen anzuwenden, etwa im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz? Welche Länder sehen Sie in Europa im Bereich LegalTech als führend an? Wie kann Europa gegenüber Vorreitern wie den USA aufholen? Sie möchten die innovativsten Köpfe der juristischen Welt auf der Legal Evolution Messe versammelt sehen. Wir sprechen mit Lawyers on Fire genau diese Gruppe an. Können Sie unseren Hörern den Messebesuch besonders schmackhaft machen, vielleicht durch VIP Eintrittskarten? Gibt es Bücher, die Sie im Bereich Legal Tech empfehlen? Besondere Tools, die Sie gerne nutzen?

Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law. He specializes in labour law, private law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics, law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/), co-Chair of the Public Policy SRI and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His books include Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law. He specializes in labour law, private law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics, law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/), co-Chair of the Public Policy SRI and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His books include Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law. He specializes in labour law, private law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics, law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/), co-Chair of the Public Policy SRI and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His books include Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Over the past few months, the legal industry has seen various conferences discussing innovation, disruption, and reinvention in the delivery of legal services. One of these events is the Forum on Legal Evolution, held this February in New York, at which Dennis was an attendee. In this episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss the Forum, some of the innovative ideas about technology presented at the conference, and what this and other future-looking projects might mean for lawyers and the practice of law.