Top 20 Legal IT Innovations 2017: what is driving systemic change in the legal industry?
A score of IT innovators are shaking up and improving the legal sector - this report looks at 20 of the most influential
November 08, 2017 at 10:23 AM
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If there is one word that sums up a central obsession in today's legal word it is innovation. Law firms and their clients are both continually seeking innovation and being innovated for. It is time to ask, 'what does innovation actually mean?' Fear not, we aren't looking to bore you with the etymology of the word and how it has evolved over time, but rather to examine what it means in practice.
The good news is that innovation is quickly becoming an essential part of the business, strategy and practice of law. The bad news is that it frequently isn't happening quickly or holistically enough.
In 2016, Legal Week Intelligence profiled 20 innovators who we believed were driving change in the legal sector. We focused on what inspired these figures to shift their views and how this bred innovation. In 2017, we look towards the innovations themselves.
The Top 20 Legal IT Innovations aims to get to the heart of what innovation means for firms and clients by illustrating how new ways of doing things, large or small, local or global, have shaken up a sector that has frequently been characterised as slow moving and resistant to change.
These 20 innovations are changing the way legal professionals work, collaborate and purchase legal services in a variety of ways. Their impact will continue to resonate and in turn will generate new ideas.
From deploying AI to avoid paying parking tickets in the UK to using law students as a paralegal resource to the harnessing of natural language processing and statistical probability to recognise textual differences, all the innovations in this report confront and shake up the status quo. The bottom line is that these innovations are making real differences in the working lives and livelihoods of actors across the legal sector today.
We hope that you enjoy this report and that it sparks discussion, change and even… innovation.
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Who Got The Work
Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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