Litigation demand – long-seen in steady decline over the past several years – may actually be a more complicated issue, with client push-back on billing playing a larger role in falling demand numbers than any actual decline in the number of litigation actions, according to a new report by the Legal Executive Institute and Thomson …
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Mental Illness, Access to Justice & Legal Solutions
The issue of providing adequate access to justice for people with mental illness has grown in importance as these situations continue to strain strapped state and federal budgets and public and governmental agencies try to work together to find solutions. A new white paper, entitled How are Civil Courts Meeting the Challenge of Mental Health?, …
ILTACON 2016 – The ILTACON TV Interview with Eric Laughlin and Elisabeth Hardy
Though the event may have wrapped last week, ILTACON 2016 is still generating news. ILTA has just released its interview (embedded below) with Thomson Reuters own Eric Laughlin, managing director of LMS and the Corporate segment, and Elisabet Hardy, vice president of Product Management. Taped during the show, Candi A. Smith, e-discovery project manager with …
Legal Debate Series: The Limits of Law
The eighth in the series of Thomson Reuters Legal Debates took place on Sept. 1 at Thomson Reuters Canary Wharf Auditorium with the motion under debate being whether the judiciary, not just parliament, must address breached election promises. The Rt. Hon. David Lammy, MP and Robert Palmer, barrister, Monckton Chambers, argued for the motion which was opposed …
The 2016 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey: Follow the Money
At the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference (ILTACON), underway this week, no discussion of information and insight about the strategy and operations of modern legal organizations would be complete without a discussion of money and how it’s being spent. In cooperation with ILTA, InsideLegal produces an annual survey of legal technology purchasing practices. …
ILTACON 2016 Session: Empathetic Design In Legal – Redesigning Law for Clients
Among the themes that have emerged at this year’s ILTACON is the notion of “deconstruction” of the legal industry. It was a point Dan Katz, associate professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, touched on in his keynote, particularly as a precursor of change in the space. After all, unleashing big data or …
Finding ILTA: The “organic” growth of the International Legal Technology Association
By Monica Bay What is ILTA? Like IBM, not everyone knows what the acronym stands for. (IBM is the International Business Machines Corp., based in Armonk, N.Y.) You won’t find the answer if you assume you can find it at ilta.com. Or ilta.org. ILTA is easy to say and runs smoothly off the tongue—maybe that’s …
ILTACON 2016 Session: Machine Learning as a Service and the Future of AI and the Law
Daniel Katz, associate professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, opened his Day One ILTACON session by assuring attendees that the days of robot overlords are still a bit further off. “I’m not about robots replacing lawyers, I’m about placing robots where they aren’t now,” Katz remarked. Lawyers, technologists and futurists have long …
ILTACON 2016 Session: Preparing a Cybercrime Incident Response Plan
Unleashing the power of technology also means the threat of cyber attack looms just around the corner. As the well-publicized Sony Studios hack played out in 2014, the release of privileged data caused incalculable harm to the organization. While the perpetrators in the Sony case were sophisticated, nation-state actors, law firms must be prepared …
ILTACON 2016: Growing Up With ILTA
I am what’s known as a “lifer”… or an “old-timer … or any number of other descriptors usually said affectionately but with just the slightest hint of pejorative undertone. I’ve been around the legal tech community a long time, and am coming up on 24 years at Thomson Reuters Elite. However, I am a mere …
