The Future Is Coming to Corporate Law Practice, Like It Or Not

We see lots of changes coming to how large-scale corporate law is practiced. Technology will help (or take on) more and more of the process work that goes into getting deals done:

Kira Systems Dramatically Speeds Up Legal Due Diligence Contract Review

With Hurricane Sandy’s recent visit to the Northeastern United States knocking out power and transit systems, a lot of lawyers got an unplanned break from work this past week.

How Law Firm CIOs Can Make Corporate Associates Happy

The American Lawyer’s annual Midlevel Associates Survey includes a number of questions on firm technology. This year, in the words of Law Technology News, associates were underwhelmed.

How Accurate is Kira Systems at Finding Contract Provisions?

Kira Systems quickly reads agreements for user–specified provisions (e.g., term, assignment, change of control) and puts its findings into summary charts.

Where Legal Jobs are Going to Be

The New York City Bar Association has convened a task force to study the current tight legal job market. The Wall Street Journal writes:

How to Cheat at Due Diligence

The DiligenceEngine team has been speaking with a lot of corporate lawyers lately. A few partners have mentioned that one worry with using our system (which automatically populates diligence contract review summaries with provisions like assignment and change of control) is that associates could use our system to “cheat” on due diligence.

Is Lawyer Regulation Killing Law Firms?

Today’s Wall Street Journal features an article by Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall of the Brookings Institution, attempting to hitch their lawyer deregulation drive to Dewey & LeBoeuf’s collapse.

My Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics Presentation Video

Here’s a video of Alex’s and my presentation at lawTechCamp 2012 (held on May 12, 2012 in Toronto, Canada) titled My Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics.