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Legal Increasingly Turns to Tech to Solve Hidden Problem: Mental Health

After experiencing or watching the pressures of legal work take a toll on attorneys, a growing number of legal professionals are launching mental health apps and resources to provide a helping hand.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

The Case for In-House Legal Data Analytics

The pervasive misconceptions of being too small, too busy or not tech-savvy enough shouldn't hold a legal department back from exploring the possibilities of a data-driven legal department.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

How Change Can Spark Joy for Information Professionals

For information professionals, the very point of our work is improvement. The question is, how do we repackage the dreaded “change” as an “improvement” that can spark joy across our entire firm?
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Nontraditional Knowledge Management: Custom-Fitting KM to Your Firm's Unique Needs

Any firm, regardless of its size, sophistication or structure, can improve its use of internal knowledge with a few key steps.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Buchanan's Phila.-Based CEO Starts 2nd Term With 'Stronger, Leaner' Firm

"We did a lot of work internally to make us better. We're now much more externally focused on meeting our clients needs and expectations," Buchanan CEO Joe Dougherty said.
7 minute read

Law.com

From Frozen Eggs to Flextime, Women Lawyers Fight for Family

More women lawyers are demanding alternative work arrangements from their employers, but the issue of balancing the dueling demands of parenthood and the partnership track goes beyond workplace policies.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

From Frozen Eggs to Flextime, Women Lawyers Figuring Out How To Balance Jobs and Family

In March, the New York Law Journal reported on a growing trend of young women attorneys freezing their eggs and embryos so that they can focus their full attention on their careers without having to give up the possibility of motherhood.
8 minute read

Law.com

Seeing Lawyers in Crisis, Some Blame the Billable Hour

Measuring lawyers by the hours they bill was long treated as a necessary evil. Faced with evidence that mental health erodes as hours increase, legal industry innovators are asking how necessary it really is.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Cost and Confusion: Legal Struggles to Understand, Deploy New Technologies

Bloomberg Law's Legal Operations & Technology survey found that just under a quarter of legal offices use AI. But a similar amount also can't say if they do or not.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Law Firms Halted Innovation Efforts in 2018 at Their Own Risk

A study by consulting firm Altman Weil found that while law firms had a stellar 2018, the good times brought complacency as long-term market forces continue to change the legal landscape.
3 minute read

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