Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 34, No.2, April 2013
Content
- McLe Self-Study Article: a Time to Tool Up
- Visualization of Law -- a New View on Legal Search
- Message from the Chair: Battleship vs. Whack-a-MoleBy Perry L. Segal
- McLe Self-Study Article: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Legal Services - Ideas for All Lawyers
- McLe Self-Study Article: Tomorrow's Lawyers: Online Delivery of Legal Services
- McLe Self-Study Article: Leveraging Online Dispute Resolution To Improve Consumer Arbitration
- Bringing Technology to the Law
- The Age of Quantitative Legal Prediction
- Message from the Guest Editor New Tricks for an Old Dog: Teaching Legal Tech By Ron Dolin, J.D., Ph.D.
- Coach's Corner: Smooth Operator: Understanding a Law Firm’s Financial Operating Benchmarks By Ed Poll
- Book Review By Carolyn M. Dillinger
- McLe Self-Study Article: Moneyball for Lawyers: How Data and Analytics are Transforming the Practice of Law
MCLE Self-Study Article: A Time to Tool Up
By Marc Lauritsen
Times are tough for lawyers. How can we survive and prosper? Most would agree that effective use of technology is part of the answer. I believe that systems aimed at the core of practice are among the most important measures we can take. And that having them requires us to be more than innocent bystanders.
The march of technology in law – as in other quarters of life – is a mixed blessing. More and more machine intelligence is not necessarily progress. But it’s coming at us like a runaway steamroller. Here are some ways to avoid being flattened.