I picked up Cal Newport’s latest book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout in the airport on my way to Yosemite. For someone who has spent a career making things better, faster, and cheaper, the...more
Generative AI’s impact on legal knowledge work was certainly one of the most prominent conversations this year at the CLOC 2023 Global Institute, which focused on the Transformation of the legal industry through more robust...more
During the CLOC 2023 Global Institute three drivers of Transformation continued to resonate throughout the conference. In my first reflection I focused on Inspiration and the need to create the time and space to envision a...more
Last week the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium hosted its 2023 Global Institute bringing together in-house legal operations professionals, their service providers and technology vendors at the Bellagio Hotel in Las...more
In July the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) published a best practice guide to matter management, titled “Matter Lifecycle Management (MLM) for Legal Teams.” This resource is geared for lawyers and legal...more
As I reflect on my experience at the CLOC Global Institute 2022, one of the things that stands out to me was that attendees carried the conversation around DE&I into almost every session, even topics that weren’t specifically...more
The 2022 CLOC Global Institute was once again a tremendous opportunity to learn about the evolution of Legal Operations, network with peers and vendors, and listen to real-world case studies of how teams are moving the needle...more
On Friday, December 4th the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) announced it was making three of the general sessions from the Global Institute available to the public. Whether one is part of a legal operations team,...more
On Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 Kevin Bielawski and I had the pleasure of participating in a virtual #bigLPMidea MeetUp with other authors and peers to discuss some of the big ideas from an upcoming book, Legal Project...more
Just as the transition to remote work prompted us to create space and structure in our homes to balance the demands of work and our family’s needs, the transition back to the workplace is an opportunity to design our work...more
I recently attended a Symposium on AI and the New Law Firm Attorney at Northwestern. The purpose of the event was to introduce law students to the topic of AI and the way the diffusion of the technology has changed how legal...more
On November 9 -10th the PoLI Institute at Vanderbilt’s Law School hosted a workshop on Legal Operations with participants from law departments, law firms and law schools. Starting with dinner on Friday night at the Saltine...more
On August 15th The Law Lab at the Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law hosted #MakeLawBetter, a Ted-talk style conference, complete with cold brew and maple bacon donuts, about innovation in the legal industry. What was...more
Innovators in legal should consider what companies like Proctor & Gamble taught designers at Apple, IDEO, Google and elsewhere. Lann Wasson with a perspective....more
Recap of a recent all-day conference on Blockchain technologies, the FinTech regulatory environment, and the role that lawyers play in guiding startup founders as they balance the pace of innovation with their compliance...more
Today more than ever in-house legal teams desire a greater degree of collaboration from their outside counsel....more
AI examples at CLOC 2018 were quite remarkable in demonstrating what could be accomplished today by embedding artificial intelligence into workflow applications....more
We should all unpack our own assumptions about what collaboration looks like and explore the possibilities that arise from CLOC's extraordinary case studies and proposals....more
Get over the fear of not knowing what to say and do your part....more