27 Jan The state of the legal industry
As the legal industry enters a new decade, both incremental and radical changes are taking place in law firms, which are trying new approaches and becoming more open to formerly unthinkable outside talent and services. Law firms should monitor competition, both from peers and alternative…
11 Dec Exploring the ROSS and Fastcase partnership
The legal research world has been abuzz with the recent announcement from ROSS Intelligence and Fastcase. The two legal research platforms have joined forces to create a content, research and development partnership to the benefit of their clients and the legal markets they serve. ROSS…
20 Nov Visual Intelligence (Part 2)
A couple of months ago I posted Visual Intelligence (Part 1). I explained that in my new job as of January 2019 at LAC Group, I spend more time thinking about how to present visually the results of our competitive intelligence and business research services.…
11 Oct Just one word: ̶P̶l̶a̶s̶t̶i̶c̶s̶ Data
One of the classic scenes in the movie THE GRADUATE explains to the young Dustin Hoffman character that the future lies in plastics. Spool forward 50 years and the concept to replace plastics is data. ARK Group’s upcoming legal KM conference—October 22-23 in New York—…
24 Sep Visual intelligence (Part 1)
With my move to LAC Group this year, I spend more time thinking about visual intelligence. LAC provides competitive intelligence and business research. We think about how to present findings to tap visual intelligence in a way that engages the audience. Engagement is key so…
04 Sep Taking CI to the next level at ARK conference
The world has seen the rise of rapid and easy access to raw information in this century. The ability, however, to gain insight from information abundance has failed to keep pace. Law firm competitive intelligence (CI) is no exception. Information flows freely but insight remains…
24 Jul AALL 2019 and legal innovation
I had the pleasure of participating in a “Hot Topic” breakout session on legal innovation at the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) 2019 Annual Conference and Meeting held mid-July in Washington DC. Jean O’Grady served as moderator for a discussion involving me, Darin Fox…
10 Jul Hip legal tech in Brooklyn at Legal Geek
Last week I attended the first-ever North American edition of the Legal Geek conference, led by Jimmy Vestbirk. Legal Geek is a startup community with over 5,000 members. It held “the world’s first LawTech startup conference in October 2016” in London, which attracted 1,000 attendees…
20 May Information governance fundamentals
It seems like every day we see headlines about data breaches or the inappropriate collection and use of personally identifiable information (PII). Just recently, NBC News reported on another Facebook transgression, by which leaked internal documents showed that senior executives had discussed selling access to…
