Flipping the Classroom to Teach Workplace ADR in an Intensive Environment
December 24, 2018

Professor Martin H. Malin, Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Deborah Ginsberg, Educational Technology Librarian at Chicago-Kent Law Library, have published “Flipping the Classroom to Teach Workplace ADR in an Intensive Environment,” 67 Journal of Legal Education618 (2018).  In their research paper, the authors explore both the successes and challenges they experienced when utilizing an alternative,...

A Game Theory Model Of Law Faculties: Turnover Helps Curb Antisocial Faculty Behavior
December 22, 2018

A standard account of group cooperation would predict that group stability would bring about greater cooperation, because repeat-play games would allow for sanctions and rewards. In an academic unit such as a department or a law faculty, one might thus expect that faculty stability would bring about greater cooperation. However, academic units are not like most other groups. Tenured professors face only limited sanctions for failing to cooperate, for engaging in unproductive conflict, or for shirking....

KPMG To Hire 3,000 Lawyers
December 21, 2018

ABA Journal, KPMG Aims to Employ 3,000 Lawyers Within the Next Few Years: Accounting firm KPMG currently employs...

2018 Is Best Year For Law Firms In A Decade
December 18, 2018

ABA Journal, Law Firms Are Having the Best Financial-Growth Year in About a Decade, Two Reports Conclude: Law firms increased revenues this year, posting gains during the first three quarters that are the best in about a decade, according to two new reports. The numbers differed slightly, but the conclusion was the same: 2018 is shaping up to be a good year, thanks to higher billing rates and higher demand for legal services. Wells Fargo Private Bank’s Legal Specialty Group found revenue...

Tech investment gives KPMG the edge over traditional UK law firms
December 16, 2018

KPMG’s UK head of legal services Nick Roome tells Legal IT Insider how the application of technology in all its guises...

2018 ABA Tech Survey shows over two-thirds of attorneys use iPhone, over one-quarter use Android
December 15, 2018

The iPhone remains, by far, the most popular smartphone for attorneys.  Nevertheless, in 2018 an all-time high of one-quarter of all attorneys reported using an Android phone, and that increase is mostly attributable to sole practitioners, where iPhone-to-Android use is a 2-to-1 ratio. Every year, the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center conducts a survey to gauge the use of legal technology by attorneys in private practice in the United States.  The 2018 report (edited...

Gartner Says 81% of Legal Departments Are Unprepared for Digitisation
December 15, 2018

Eight out of 10 corporate legal departments are unprepared to support their organisations’ digital initiatives, according to a Gartner report out today (12 December) which analysed the impact of legal engagement and governance strategies on business outcomes. We should add that this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Gartner studied 1,715 digital projects across industries, geographies and types, interviewed or surveyed 100+ general counsel and privacy officers, and surveyed over 100 legal...

Legal Industry in Last Place in AI, Machine Learning Adoption, Survey Finds
December 7, 2018

Less than half of legal senior executives surveyed in a new report said their organizations offer training on emerging technologies, such as big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Business analytics juggernaut RELX Group polled 1,000 U.S. senior executives across government and the health care, insurance, legal, science and banking industries. Of the law firm leaders surveyed, only 44 percent said they offer employee training on the technologies—the least of any industry. Over...

Vanderbilt Law School Launches New PoLI Institute Immersion-Based Programs and Certificate in Law and Innovation
December 6, 2018

Vanderbilt Law School and its Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) officially launched the PoLI Institute and a new Certificate in Law and Innovation program. The PoLI Institute introduces a practical educational opportunity for both practicing attorneys and legal professionals, reaching far beyond the impact of hourly CLE courses. Unique to Vanderbilt Law School, the Certificate in Law and Innovation Program provides a series of in-depth, live and in-person Immersion courses (“Immersions”)...

‘Context,’ Launching Today from LexisNexis, Applies Unique Analytics to Judges and Expert Witnesses
December 3, 2018

A legal analytics product being launched today by LexisNexis does something no other analytics product does: It analyzes...