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I have to confess that I have been surprised by the ease with which many large law firms transitioned to working from home. In various contexts over the past few months, I have spoken with law firm leaders who described transitions that were fairly seamless and that were pulled off within a relatively short time…

For my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV today, I’ll be interviewing Kathryn DeBord, chief innovation officer at the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.

You can watch the live stream directly at the Litera TV page.

DeBord leads Bryan Cave’s innovation team, which is an international cross-disciplinary team dedicated to…

Mark Harris is sounding an alarm – or, as he puts it, staging an intervention – for corporate counsel.

Harris and Alec Guettel, the original founders 20 years ago of alternative legal services provider Axiom and, since last year, the CEO and CFO of contract management company Knowable, have taken the unusual step…

As the global pandemic has forced lawyers and clients into working from home, many law firms have realized that standard ways of closing deals and signing documents are no longer viable.

That point was driven home recently when Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, said that its U.S. real estate practice would now use…

SirionLabs, developer of AI-powered enterprise contract lifecycle management technology, said yesterday it has raised $44 million in a Series C round, bringing its total capital raised to date to $66 million.

Yesterday, I reported on three other contract review and management companies that had financing rounds totalling $26 million, so this brings to…

For my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, tomorrow I will interview Judy Perry Martinez, the president of the American Bar Association.

Our conversation will be streamed live tomorrow, May 14, at 9:30 a.m. CDT / 3:30 p.m. BST at Litera TV.

A lawyer who has made public service a part…

Starting today is a free, week-long virtual bankruptcy summit designed for attorneys who would like to transition their practices into bankruptcy law as well as for current practitioners who want to take a deeper dive into specific types of cases.

Called Bankruptcy Week, the five-day program is presented by NextChapter, the cloud-based bankruptcy…

Last week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, I interviewed Joe Calve, chief marketing and business development officer at McGuireWoods. Our topic: legal marketing in the midst of a pandemic.

At McGuireWoods, Calve oversees client relations and development, communications, media relations and marketing. Before joining McGuireWoods, he was CMO…

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases rose in the United States during March, the numbers of new legal matters coming to law firms dropped sharply — by more than 30% compared to the first five weeks of 2020 and by more than 40% from the year’s highest weekly averages — according to data compiled anonymously…

A nationwide pulse survey finds that the coronavirus crisis has forced 87 percent of law offices to work entirely or partially remotely, as they struggle to maintain financial stability and keep up billable hours.

The survey was conducted by the practice management company MyCase, which published some of the results on its blog…

Following a ransomware attack that took down the company’s servers for nearly a month and then layoffs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global said he is proud of how the company handled these incidents and that he expects the company to bounce back to where it was.

In…

When Am Law 200 law firm Baker Donelson decided to implement the legal workflow application BigHand Now, it planned to roll it out gradually in stages, starting with its headquarters in Nashville.

Then came the coronavirus crisis.

As it became clear to the firm that the pandemic would require its attorneys and staff…