Handbook For Legal Innovation

Although legal innovation is critical for law firms, with clients pushing for more efficient, cost-effective, and automated services, very little has been written about how to drive successful enterprise-wide transformation efforts. As innovation and legal operations functions proliferate globally, Nicola Shaver has written the first definitive book to guide legal professionals through setting up an effective innovation function and driving successful culture change and initiatives across a legal organization. In The Handbook for Legal Innovation, Shaver, the 2020 ILTA Legal Innovation Leader of the Year and a College of Law Practice Management Fellow, outlines how to set up an effective strategy for innovation, provides practical guides for conducting current-state audits, establishes frameworks to help identify project priorities, and outlines how to build and grow the right team. With 20 years of experience in the legal industry, including a decade each of practicing law and driving innovation initiatives in large legal organizations, Shaver draws upon her experience as well as broad industry knowledge to inform this practical guide. In addition to strategy suggestions, the Handbook delves deeply into methodologies for change. Shaver provides an overview of effective methods drawn from other industries that can be leveraged within legal to support and supercharge innovation efforts, equipping lawyers and legal innovation leaders with tools that will help them drive real change within their organizations.

With countless articles and blogs on legal innovation, it is nearly impossible for attorneys to keep pace. The good news: lawyers can continue to learn well into their years of practice With some updated vocabulary and a few real examples lawyers can learn to wow their clients. The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation will help them on that journey, providing details on the: - Legal ecosystem - Rise of legal operations (or legal ops) - Top innovation concepts lawyers need to know - and more By providing bite-sized lessons on topics that every practicing lawyer should be familiar with, this book will keep attorneys from getting left behind. Author Lucy Endel Bassli is ready to share her hard-won innovation advice with women looking to advance and commercial attorneys looking to shake things up.

This Handbook provides breakthrough analyses on an important, cutting-edge topic: the connections between the legal system, both in substance and process, and innovation and growth. Arguably the most important intellectual development in legal scholarship and judicial decision-making over the past four decades has been the increasing use of economic modes of analysis in legal reasoning. The Handbook on Law, Innovation and Growth sheds new light on the linkages between innovation, growth and the legal system, answering questions that will help policymakers better understand and implement the law in an effort to advance economic welfare. This Handbook brings together many prominent scholars to examine the features of the legal infrastructure that affect both innovation and growth. Individual chapters explore different legal subject areas, in most cases offering recommendations for rule changes that could accelerate growth, primarily in the context of the US economy. The introductory chapter cohesively ties all of the contributions together and explains why it is time for legal scholarship and research to move in a new direction. Surpassing other literature on the subject, this landmark Handbook is certainly a critical volume for any student or scholar of law and economics.

"Written by prominent thought leaders in the global FinTech investment space, The LegalTech Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned. Coverage includes: The current status of LegalTech, why now is the time for it to boom, the drivers behind it, and how it relates to FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech and WealthTech Applications of AI, machine learning and deep learning in the practice of law; e-discovery and due diligence; AI as a legal predictor LegalTech making the law accessible to all; online courts, online dispute resolution The Uberization of the law; hiring and firing through apps Lawbots; social media meets legal advice To what extent does LegalTech make lawyers redundant? Cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technology and the law The Internet of Things, data privacy, automated contracts Cybersecurity and data Technology vs. the law; driverless cars and liability, legal rights of robots, ownership rights over works created by technology Legislators as innovators"--

The legal industry is a complicated ecosystem of different service providers, technologies, influential industry groups, and customer constituents. These components are creating a new tension in the delivery of legal services that is forcing lawyers to reimagine how they do their work and how they deliver their work product to clients. Gone are the days when lawyers could answer "it depends" without providing any expectations of timeliness or cost. This companion to my book, "The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation," (available on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/dp/1641055871) is designed to turn your ideas into action. It is a tactical set of instructions to bring out the innovator in every lawyer, designed to be instructional and thought-provoking. With practical exercises focused on each of the top ten topics every lawyer must know from the "Simple Guide," readers can pick the areas of innovation that speak to their personal interests and strengths. This workbook should make the innovation journey manageable and hopefully enjoyable. Happy innovating! Lucy Bassli is an attorney, author of "The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation," and a former Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, she redefined how legal work is done and created one of the first managed service engagements with a law firm. Lucy is a highly sought-after legal industry expert who consults with corporate legal departments and law firms on legal service delivery, automation, smart risk-taking, and alternative resourcing models. She educates and coaches lawyers to take best practices in the legal industry to a new level. As the founder and principal of InnoLegal Services, PLLC, Lucy brings together her legal acumen and operational excellence. Her other publications can be found on her website, www.lucybassli.com.

Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech and legal space, The LegalTech Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned. Coverage includes: · The current status of LegalTech, why now is the time for it to boom, the drivers behind it, and how it relates to FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech, WealthTech and PayTech · Applications of AI, machine learning and deep learning in the practice of law; e-discovery and due diligence; AI as a legal predictor · LegalTech making the law accessible to all; online courts, online dispute resolution · The Uberization of the law; hiring and firing through apps · Lawbots; social media meets legal advice · To what extent does LegalTech make lawyers redundant or more efficient? · Cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technology and the law · The Internet of Things, data privacy, automated contracts · Cybersecurity and data · Technology vs. the law; driverless cars and liability, legal rights of robots, ownership rights over works created by technology · Legislators as innovators · Practical LegalTech solutions helping Legal departments in corporations and legal firms alike to get better legal work done at lower cost

The legal sector is being hit by profound economic and technological changes (digitalization, open data, blockchain, artificial intelligence ...) forcing law firms and legal departments to become ever more creative in order to demonstrate their added value. To help lawyers meet this challenge, this book draws on the perspectives of lawyers and creative specialists to analyze the concept and life cycle of legal innovations, techniques and services, whether related to legislation, legal engineering, legal services, or legal strategies, as well as the role of law as a source of creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Sometimes, innovators need some help from a trusted guide to keep their efforts on track and moving toward successful outcomes. In this comprehensive, practicable, and highly-readable legal innovation guide, innovators, innovators-to-be and leaders and decision-makers in law firms, law departments and legal organizations will be led through the key pieces of successful innovation processes to enhance the probability of success and decrease the probability of embarrassing and costly failures. Drawing on his many years of experience in law firms and law departments, his well-known expertise in innovation and legal technology and his familiarity with and involvement in the legal innovation movement, Dennis Kennedy covers the entire waterfront of innovation issues, shares his best tips and techniques, answers hard questions, and gives many helpful examples. This book will be an excellent desktop companion for your innovation journey. and an essential resource for forward-looking legal organizations of all kinds and for their customer as well.