Frank Ready

November 04, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

The firm of O'Melveny launched The Boardroom, a new online content hub featuring videos, podcasts and other repositories for legal insight. But as corporate legal departments look beyond the pandemic, capturing their attention may require prognosticating the problems of the future.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read

November 04, 2020 | Legaltech News

Legal tech providers have continued to make use of AI to help empower and refine services related to areas such as legal research, contracts, and e-billing. But underlying copyright issues related to the material used to train those technologies may be of bigger concern to some than others.

By Frank Ready

7 minute read

October 30, 2020 | Legaltech News

Stephen Allen has experience working in both a law firm and consultancy environment. But as the ALSP looks to update its consulting services to meet the present day needs of legal departments, can it take on the resources of the Big Four?

By Frank Ready

5 minute read

October 30, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

In-house legal departments are taking on a bigger role in their organizations' cybersecurity posture, but attorneys still need to know their limits.

By Frank Ready

8 minute read

October 29, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

Reaching full operational maturity necessitates not just buying the latest tech, but thinking critically about how it will fit into an ecosystem—and the gaps it leaves behind.

By Frank Ready

1 minute read

October 28, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

A panel held during Wednesday's Women, Influence & Power in Law Virtual Summit examined the exhaustive levels of detail required for legal departments to truly be proactive about data protection, from fine-tuning language in vendor agreements to the way duties are assigned within the company itself.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read

October 28, 2020 | Legaltech News

Cisco has announced new solutions designed to further enable remote appearances in venues like courtrooms or even legislative bodies. The tools may be emblematic of a future that sees video conferencing solutions taking a more industry-specific approach to their products.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

October 27, 2020 | Legaltech News

The 2020 Tech Report from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) shows that firms are continuing to grow their information governance policies as they grapple with the use of social media and adapt to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Frank Ready

6 minute read

October 22, 2020 | Legaltech News

While funneling all requests for outside counsel assistance through a GC or other legal department leadership can help eliminate unnecessary invoices, it may also lay the seeds for an institutional knowledge crisis somewhere down the line.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read

October 21, 2020 | Legaltech News

A Wolters Kluwer virtual ELM Amplify panel held Wednesday examined the threat that rolling out a new e-billing tool can pose to an otherwise healthy outside counsel relationship. While those solutions are often implemented to enforce billing guidelines, some firms may be find ways around compliance.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read