Why parents are being punished for the crimes of their children

Parental responsibility is being put to the test. The big question now remains: Where is the line, and how much parental nudging is too little?

Jul 2, 2024 2:52 PM CDT

How managed services are building systems for corporate legal work

Legal managed services providers design, build and staff process-driven systems that efficiently complete legal work. The work’s content often is sophisticated and important to the client’s long-term commercial interests. Yet the volume is too large to be performed cost-effectively by law firm associates and too narrow and repetitive to warrant hiring more in-house lawyers.

Jun 1, 2017 12:10 AM CDT

Some law firms look outside law practice to avoid their ‘Kodak moment’

During the course of reporting this story, the name Kodak kept coming up as a symbol of where the legal industry could be headed if it continues to resist technology. A survey released in January by Georgetown University's Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Thomson Reuters' Peer…

Apr 1, 2016 4:50 AM CDT

What the jobs are: New tech and client needs create a new field of legal operations

It's mid-March and I'm at the DocuSign conference at the Grand Hyatt in downtown San Francisco. It's a bustling gathering with a Fortune 500 vibe—room after room of people discussing various aspects of digital transaction management.

Oct 1, 2015 6:00 AM CDT

Roundtable on change and challenge in the business of law

At a rather small table in a large hotel conference room, five pioneers in new legal services met with the ABA Journal in May. Someone suggested the Las Vegas gathering looked like a poker game, but the intention was a discussion of a very different kind of gambling—the risks they've…

Sep 1, 2015 6:10 AM CDT

Model program brings holistic solutions to divorce

Feb 1, 2015 4:20 AM CST

Does the UK know something we don’t about alternative business structures?

Jan 1, 2015 5:51 AM CST

Who owns the law? Technology reignites the war over just how public documents should be

These days the smallest and most exclusive piece of real estate in Washington, D.C., is the sliver of common ground that exists between congressional Democrats and Republicans. But during a January hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the scope of copyright protection laws, Democrats and Republicans…

Jun 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT

Architecture firm unveils display of the ‘law firm of the future’

There have already been plenty of pop-up stores, especially ones that appear during the holidays. Now witness the pop-up law firm. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that architectural firm Gensler has designed a 5,000 square-foot exhibit that the company has branded as “the law firm of the future.” The…

May 19, 2014 5:20 PM CDT

These venture capitalists skip law firms for legal services startups

May 1, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

Who’s eating law firms’ lunch?

Deanna Johnston had 30 minutes to spare. As vice president of litigation at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., she and her busy team couldn’t afford to waste time meeting with another typical legal vendor. But her boss, the general counsel, had insisted on this one. Two hours later, Johnston hired the…

Oct 1, 2013 10:30 AM CDT

How law firms can use LPOs to their own advantage (podcast with transcript)

Podcast Transcript Reginald Davis: What should your law firm do to deal with these upstart non-traditional legal service providers? Bill Henderson: If I was a law firm, I would go out and learn what these vendors are doing and ask yourself: What can we do and what should they be…

Sep 30, 2013 1:40 PM CDT

ABA Journal takes home hardware in journalism contest

The ABA Journal congratulates its staff and contributors for several awards in the national and regional business-to-business journalism contest sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Winning a national award for best blog was the ABA Journal’s business of law blog, The New Normal, authored by Paul Lippe,…

Jul 30, 2013 2:27 PM CDT

‘Law is broken.’ Will these legal tech gurus bring about change?

Corrected: “The law is broken, change is coming.” So said Axiom Law Managing Director Henry Jones at a one-day session not for the many U.S. lawyers clinging to a century-old model for legal services, but for a crowd of tech geeks who say they are leading a law revolution. Forty…

Mar 11, 2013 5:30 PM CDT

The Pedigree Problem: Are Law School Ties Choking the Profession?

John, a senior associate at a regional law firm, read the recruiter’s email a second time, still in disbelief. An experienced litigator, John (who asked not to be identified out of concern for future job prospects) graduated in the top 10 percent of his law school class in 2006 with…

Jul 1, 2012 10:20 AM CDT