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Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during May. This reflects episode downloads only during May, not for all time. (By the way, in the all-time tally, the Richard Susskind interview listed at number six below is now the third most-popular LawNext episode ever. First place has long been held by my September 2018 interview with Mark Britton, former Avvo CEO.) 1. The Innovation Advantage - A Panel Discussion with Leading Experts in Law Firm Innovation.

LinkSquares, a Boston-based company that provides an AI-based contract management and analysis platform for corporate legal departments, is today announcing the roll-out later this month of a product that extends its platform to the pre-signature, contract-generation process, to offer enterprises an end-to-end platform for drafting, reviewing and managing contracts.

The company says that the…

Last week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV today, I interviewed Kathryn DeBord, chief innovation officer at the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Our 30-minute interview covered a range of topics, including innovation at Bryan Cave and innovation in the midst of a pandemic.

The recording of that interview…

The Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation, in partnership with the justice tech company Paladin, is today launching a statewide online Pro Bono Opportunity Portal that will connect Oklahomans needing legal help to lawyers and law students through local legal services organizations.

In the months since the coronavirus pandemic started,…

It is rare these days to see the debut of an entirely new law practice management platform, let alone one launching out of the gate with a full array of end-to-end features, and then some. But that is what is happening today with the formal launch of Lexicon.

And coming into a market that…

When a call comes into your law firm from a prospective client, will your intake specialist know if the case is a good one for your firm? How long will it take before an attorney can review and evaluate the lead? Will that potential client have found someone else by the time you call back?…

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…

On the latest episode of the LawNext podcast: A coronavirus success story – how a state bar, anticipating a tidal wave of unemployment claims, partnered with two legaltech companies to launch a pro bono portal in barely more than a week.

On April 27, 2020, the New York State Bar Association launched a website devoted to…

The company Reorg, a global provider of financial intelligence, is today launching a first-of-its-kind Legal Billing Rates Database, an analytics tool that uses data drawn from court dockets to help attorneys benchmark their fees in preparation for client pitches.

It can also be used by general counsel and other commercial and financial clients in…

Proud to report that a book to which I contributed has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries for its 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award.

Ellyssa Kroski, director of information technology and marketing at The New York Law Institute, won the award as author and editor for the book,…

Somewhere in the rafters of legal blogging, someone needs to retire the jersey of legal blogger number one, Walter Olson.

After 21 years of blogging at Overlawyered, a blog dedicated to chronicling the high cost of the legal system, Olson announced today that he will cease publishing May 31.

Back in 2007, curious…