top of page

Search


DXC Is Serious About Legal Digital Transformation
It’s not often that a law firm hears what’s expected directly from the client’s CEO. That’s what occurred at the recent DXC Strategic...
By Mark A. Cohen
Oct 9, 20186 min read


New Skills And Diversity Are Needed For Legal Buyers And Providers In The Digital Age
Last week’s column examined the disconnect between law’s “innovation” fixation and its low customer satisfaction and distribution...
By Mark A. Cohen
Oct 3, 20187 min read


Recommendations for Corporate Legal Buyers and Providers in The Digital Age
Law is struggling to keep pace with the speed of business as well as to satisfy clients. One key reason is that there are too many...
By Mark A. Cohen
Sep 25, 20186 min read


How Will Legal Education And Training Keep Pace With Change?
Ferris Bueller famously quipped, “Life moves pretty fast.” Imagine what he would say now …The pace of change is accelerating at...
By Mark A. Cohen
Sep 13, 20182 min read


Legal Innovation is the Rage, But There's Plenty of Resistance
The staid legal industry is smitten by “innovation,” even as it lacks a common definition how the term applies to legal delivery and...
By Mark A. Cohen
Aug 31, 20183 min read


Time for the legal industry to speak out for the rule of law
The rule of law is under siege and it's incoming on all sides. The judiciary, the Department of Justice, the intelligence community, and...
By Mark A. Cohen
Aug 21, 20185 min read


Money Makes the World Go Around-Why Capital Is Changing Law
Anyone who has seen the film Cabaret or heard the soundtrack will remember Liza Minnelli’s ode to the power of money: Money makes the...
By Mark A. Cohen
Aug 17, 20187 min read


When the Numbers Don't Add Up: Vermont Law School's Tenured Faculty Purge and What It Porten
Vermont Law School (Vermont) recently announced it had issued pink slips to 14 of its 19 tenured faculty members. This is not the first...
By Mark A. Cohen
Jul 20, 20186 min read


Lawyers and Accountants: Collaborators and Competitors in the Multidisciplinary Age
Lawyers and accountants are professional allies, but who controls integration and delivery of their services is another story. A recent...
By Mark A. Cohen
Jul 13, 20186 min read


TAKE AWAYS FROM THE LEGAL CONFEX: STAYING UP TO DATE AS NEW RESPONSIBILITY
Last week’s Legal ConFex in New York brought together In-house Counsel, Law Firm Partners, Legal Tech Vendors and Service Providers to...
Zylab
Jul 7, 20182 min read


Too Many Legal Awards -- Too Little Customer Satisfaction
Law is staging its own version of “every kid gets a trophy.” Its award season is longer than baseball’s, and the list of award categories...
By Mark A. Cohen
Jul 3, 20186 min read


Legal Delivery at The Speed of Business — And Why It Matters
“Time is Money” wrote Benjamin Franklin in a 1748 essay titled Advice to a Young Tradesman. Franklin was a polymath—scientist, statesman,...
By Mark A. Cohen
Jun 26, 20187 min read


Milbank and Weil Make Headlines; UnitedLex, Dentons, and Deloitte Make Waves
Big announcements by UnitedLex, Dentons, and Deloitte are getting drowned out by the noise of salary increases for associates. Milbank...
By Mark A. Cohen
Jun 14, 20187 min read


wenigermiete.de – securing legal rights for German tenants
Who is wenigermiete.de and what is the idea behind it? Wenigermiete.de founded was by the German lawyers Dr. Frederik Gärtner, Exec....
By Katja Fahrendholz
Jun 7, 20183 min read


Reducing your Legal Fees
eDiscovery is unpredictable, disruptive, and stressful. It also is the most expensive part of litigation. And required IT resources and...
Zylab
May 31, 20182 min read


Innovation Is Law's New Game, But Wicked Problems Remain
‘Legal innovation’ is no longer an oxymoron. The staid, precedent bound, legal guild is slowly morphing into something different. The...
By Mark A. Cohen
May 22, 20186 min read


Legal Operations is Hot. But Legal Culture is Lukewarm Toward It
Legal operations (legal ops) is a hot topic these days. The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) recently held its annual...
By Mark A. Cohen
May 17, 20187 min read


Growth symbolises the rise of alternative legal service providers
Legadex: ten years and counting | An interview with (from left to right) Frederike Sips, Luc van Daele and Hans-Martijn Roos of Legadex...
by Michiel Rohlof
May 11, 20188 min read


Watch the Legal Innovation Summit Beyond our Borders (Chicago)
Beyond our Borders is a Legal Innovation Summit, hosted by Northwestern University | Pritzker School of Law in Chicago. Thought Leaders...
By Editorial Department
May 3, 20183 min read


Procurement and The New Legal Buy/Sell Dynamic
Procurement's expanding role in the legal industry is changing the way legal services are bought and sold. Procurement is changing the...
By Mark A. Cohen
Apr 18, 20186 min read
Post Library
bottom of page