Lean Adviser Legal

December 20, 2024 | Lean Adviser

With the rise of generative AI, legal, knowledge is becoming worth less, and will become worthless. If GenAI-empowered clients won’t need to buy knowledge from lawyers, what will they buy?

By Lean Adviser Legal

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December 11, 2024 | Lean Adviser

AI Series Part 4What will the people in the legal AI ecosystem actually do? That is, how will lawyers and LPM (legal project management) professionals operate together to solve clients’ problems?

By Lean Adviser Legal

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December 04, 2024 | Lean Adviser

AI Series Part 3Legal AI doesn't understand your client’s problem. You do. Without you, legal AI will just answer the wrong question more efficiently. Legal AI is a large language model. That’s its strength — and its limitation.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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November 29, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Legal AI, LPM, Lean Adviser and the other transformative solutions are all built on a generic “cake mix” basis. They are “white label” products which law firms can adapt in their own image and brand accordingly. Some magic circle firms are investing in their own proprietary AI solutions, others will rent and modify, but the raw ingredients are just that, raw.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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November 22, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Artificial Intelligence Series Part 1Clients love legal Gen AI because it tries to practice the way they want. This is the piece we all need to understand. The aspiration of Gen AI in legal is to deliver better outcomes through efficiency, effectiveness and continuous improvement. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is exactly what Lean Law offers.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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November 14, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Legal services thrive on uncertainty. What regulations are coming and how do those within that affected industry need to respond? What do changes in the regulatory scheme mean to me? What do I need to do now to be ready for changes in policy and compliance enforcement? All of these require help and advice from lawyers.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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November 08, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Creativity Series, Part 3 Creativity always embraces the counter intuitive. The conventional approach to a tough problem is to sit, focus on the issue and think hard about it. The counterintuitive approach is don't sit, don't focus and don't think about it at all.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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November 01, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Creativity Series, Part 2 Once you see your role as a problem solver, the scope for creativity becomes obvious. Yes, of course there will be a legal component, and yes that will inform the scenario, but the law won't solve the problem. That can only be done by you applying your imagination to the full picture, and applying your creative chops.

By Lean Adviser Legal

2 minute read

October 25, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Profitability may be planned in leadership meetings, but the execution is at the working attorney level. The real challenge then, is implementation. Equipping the pricing team with Legal Process Management skills is only the start; firms also need to equip their attorneys with LPM skills. But how? How do you upskill the attorneys?

By Lean Adviser Legal

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October 15, 2024 | Lean Adviser

Creativity Series, Part 1 All newly-minted lawyers face the same problem: They are taught what the law is, but not how to practice it. Lean Adviser exists to remedy this. As ever the constituency to ask is clients. On this they are clearly aligned about the relevance and value of creativity in the provision of legal services.

By Lean Adviser Legal

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