No matter what size your firm is or its location, you must have a global mindset. Oh, and we will all be replaced by robots. Those were the key takeaways after the Wednesday morning keynote at ILTA 2014. Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future Research Limited presented “Unleashing IT to Disrupt, Define and Differentiate Future …
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Podcast: Big Data in law firms – opportunities and risks
Harnessing Big Data could be a key for firms seeking to gain competitive advantages and boost their business development efforts. In the podcast below, Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, discuss their recently published white paper, produced by ILTA, that …
ILTA 2014 opening keynote by Peter Diamandis: Our world of abundance
ILTA 2014 kicked off with a bang on Monday morning in Nashville, TN, with a keynote by Peter Diamandis, author, innovator and co-founder/executive chairman of Singularity University, the leading institution for the study of exponentially growing technologies. The theme at this year’s ILTA conference is “Imagine,” and Diamandis capitalized on that theme by asking the …
Hackcess to Justice 2014 Hackathon
The ABA Journal hosted Hackcess to Justice in Boston, MA on Thursday and Friday, a hackathon to encourage the legal and tech communities to develop innovative tools to help break down barriers for low income individuals in need of access to lawyers and legal services for civil legal issues. According to the official mission statement …
Should firms be mining for gold in Big Data?
It’s all about the definition we give something. Take “Big Data,” for instance. This term has so many definitions that it is difficult to say whether law firms are even dealing with it. Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, co-authored …
Law firm demand up, but so is headcount
The market for law firm services hit a slight turbulent patch in the second quarter. The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) dipped one point to 55. While demand for legal services was up 0.4 percent compared with a year ago, productivity fell 0.8 percent as firms added headcount in excess of demand. Transactional practices (corporate work, …
Alison Frankel interviews Bryan Garner on Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th edition
Reuters News Editor Alison Frankel recently sat down with Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. In this 30 minute interview, they discuss Garner’s process when it comes to editing the Dictionary, his love of words, and much more. Frankel updates her On the Case blog multiple times throughout the day on WestlawNext Practitioner Insights. …
Andrew Keen keynote at AALL annual conference
James Kinzer once wrote, “When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.” With that in mind, things got off to an ‘interesting’ start on Sunday morning at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual conference in San Antonio, TX, with a keynote address by Andrew Keen, …
June podcast: A courtroom brawl, Slenderman and technology trends
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: -Legal news: A courtroom brawl in Brevard County, Florida -Legal trends & insights: Can Eric Knudsen, the creator of the fictional character Slenderman, be held civilly liable for the recent violence suffered by the young victim of a stabbing attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin? -News from Thomson Reuters: …
Service before self: Dan Clark closing keynote at Vantage Worldwide Conference
New York Times best-selling author Dan Clark spoke to attendees at the Vantage Worldwide Conference in New York City last week about the importance of service. Clark knows a thing or two about this subject area, having written over 20 books with his most recent titled, The Art Of Significance: Achieving the Level Beyond Success. Clark attended …
