Law Technology News wishes you and your families a safe, happy holiday season. As we look forward to the new year, we are reprising some of the best stories of 2013. This year, we launched a new feature, “Backward, Forward” where authors take a look at an iconic book of the past, and evaluate how it influenced legal technology. We started with the legendary consultant/lecturer Richard Susskind, who reviewed The Innovator’s Dilemma, which ran in our April print edition, and we added a second voice online: David Cowen, of The Cowen Group. We present both for your enjoyment.

In 1999, Elizabeth Broderick phoned me from Sydney to say that I must read The Innovator’s Dilemma by Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen. Broderick was a pioneer in legal technology (she is now Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner) and I always welcome her advice. These were heady days, of course. The Internet was burgeoning, the dotcom bubble had not yet burst, there seemed to be massive scope for new thinking in the law, and I was thirsty for insight.

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