Another law firm sued for a data breach. This time it’s not the firm’s clients but a class action brought by those who had no relationship with the firm other than their personally identifiable information was in the firm’s files and was exposed. The risks and disruption from cybersecurity lapses by law firms are real…

AI is changing the work collaberation that so essential to lawyers, particularly litigators. It’s time we quit relying on the water cooler training notion and moved to something more formal and deliberate. Here’s my thoughts for Above the Law.

Courts are starting to outright ban so-called smart glasses that can record audio and video from courtrooms. The impulse is understandable but how they are dealing with it could a problem.

The orders have definition problems. They ignore the broader wearable ecosystem: necklaces, AirPods with cameras, smartwatches, even mobile phones. And they miss an even…

Here’s my recap of the CLOC Global Institute for Above the Law. Legal ops professionals are the adults in the room of the legal tech conference world. There was serious content, serious attendees, and a business first attitude. 

Based on what I heard at a CLOC conference facilitated audience conversation, a lot of outside counsel still don’t know what legal ops is. And when the audience was asked what outside counsel do right there was mostly silence.

According to this audience, the divide between many outside counsel and legal ops isn’t narrowing. But…

Zach Cass opened the CLOC Global Institute this week with a question: if you could automate everything, what would you leave in? It’s a critical question for legal ops and for the legal profession .

I’ve been told C-suite executives are already wondering how to build agentic workflows that reduce the need to consult in-house…

I recently attended another legal tech conference celebrity keynote that left the audience wondering “what does this have to do with me?” Here’s my post for Above the Law on why celebrity keynotes at legal tech conferences sometime miss the mark. And what conference organizers and, for that matter, the celebrity speakers should be focusing…

Legal ops’ biggest annual gathering, CLOC’s Global Institute, is moving to McCormick in Chicago this week and, as can be expected, AI is shaping the agenda. One big question: how will AI reshape legal ops in particular, and how do its practitioners prepare? Not to mention how attendees will deal with the new venue (we…