Category: Legal Innovation Blog

In the latest issue of Legal IT Today, the interesting question “What are the minimum technology skills required of a lawyer?” is asked. D. Casey Flaherty thinks that, even though different substantive areas of law demands different tech skills, the answer[…]

One of the buzz words 2015 was “Uberization” and the potential for a similar disruption of the legal market as Uber’s business model has caused for the transportation market. After all, as Mark A. Cohen points out in the article “Lawyers,[…]

Since the 2008 economic downturn it has been a general focus on cost savings on the legal market, especially for general counsels seeking to meet budget restraints and yet handle the increased legal complexity, compliance and risk prevention, to demonstrate[…]

As the year 2015 has come to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to share some of the highlights from our sixth year with VQ and to thank everyone that made it all possible. For us, some of[…]

A few weeks ago we attended Sime and listened to inter alia Christian Sandström, who made such a fantastic speech that we asked him right away to join our next VQ Forum as speaker. he topic Associate Professor Christian Sandström, aka “Dr. Death”, presented at Sime,[…]

Last week we attended Sime Stockholm, a two-day conference about digital opportunities and how to convert these into new business, but also how digitalization can be used to create a better world, to support human rights and to do good. This[…]

The second day of Sime started in a distinguished way with a presentation of the Nobel Prize and what characteristics the laureates had in common. Tobias Degsell, Curator at the Nobel Museum, pointed out that it was not their innovative ideas as[…]

Sime is a two-day conference about digital opportunities and how to convert these into new business. Here we will try to swiftly summarize our impressions from the first day of exploring the world of digital business and taking part of the[…]

The annual Altman Weil Law Firms in Transition Survey captures how the business of law is changing and how law firms progress on dealing with the rapidly-evolving legal industry. According to the 2015 report gross revenues increased for law firms in 2014,[…]

After an unprecedented global conquest, Uber has had some bumpy rides lately, with protests, complaints with the European Commission and a Californian Labor Commissioner’s decision ruling against Uber’s claim that drivers are independent contractors, not employees. The big question in[…]

A small but growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are now being trialled into the legal sector. The latest issue of the Partner Magazine by Netlaw Media explains how this development will affect law firms. “For many years it[…]

Technology is often connected with innovation in the legal sector. Now Legal Futures have released a new report – “Innovation Nation” – with the subtitle “How SME Law Firms are changing the way law is practiced” (“The Report”)  that further discuss this.[…]

Documents is at the core of any legal business. Drafting, reviewing and collaborating on documents is a large part of being a lawyer. Revision after revision is made by an expanding circle of reviewers, within the law firm, by the[…]

In a recent interview by Yves Faguy, senior editor of National Magazine, Jordan Furlong presented his view of the state of the legal market in 2014 and where it’s headed in 2015. Jordan Furlong is a lawyer, speaker and industry[…]

If you want to find out which technologies will be shaping the legal business, the Legal IT Landscapes 2015 report by Legal Support Network can serve as a crystal ball. The report is based on a survey with collected responses from UK firms[…]

At the beginning of a new year it is always interesting to tune into the ongoing discussions on legal market developments and listen to all experts summarizing the market changes so far and their predictions for the upcoming year. Some[…]

As the year 2014 is coming to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to share some of the highlights from our fifth year with VQ and to thank everyone that made it all possible. VQ Knowledge and Strategy[…]

Legal Futures Annual Conference had the theme “The Era of the Entrepreneur” this year, with a new approach to the legal market – the entrepreneurial side of lawyers and non-lawyers. The aim of the day was to put to bed the myth[…]

In the fall issue of “International Review” there is a thought-provoking article by Patrick J. McKenna on law firm strategies, providing some new perspective and interesting analysis on how to develop a strategy to outperform rival law firms. In the article the[…]

This month the ninth FT Innovative Lawyers report was presented, with a thorough analysis of the European legal sector. The report provides rankings and trend reports, inter alia evidencing the following distinctive trends: The legal market is recovering from the financial crisis and growth[…]