Category: Legal Innovation Blog

In the annual ABA Law Practice Magazine “Law Firm Profitability Issue” there is an interesting article on Alternative Fee Arrangements by Colin Cameron, management consultant and founder of Profits for Partners. In the article “Win-Win Alternative Fee Arrangements” Colin Cameron provides some great tips on how law[…]

Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, does not just talk about changes in the legal sector. He is also acting to promote this change. With a background from BigLaw, where his practice focused on complex commercial litigation and[…]

Janet Day, the Director of IT for Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (BLP), is well known for challenging the status quo within Legal IT, and her work over the recent years has been particularly revolutionary. Within BLP, she has changed the way[…]

Yesterday we attended LawTech Futures in London – Europe’s largest legal technology conference arranged by Charles Christian, the world’s most widely-read legal IT commentator and founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Legal IT Insider newsletter and website, and Netlaw Media, the leading legal events and media[…]

In January Richard Susskind released his new book “Tomorrow’s Lawyers”, which we reviewed in general earlier this year in the blog post “Susskind for dummies and all other legal professionals”. In this post we will focus a bit more on the[…]

Yesterday we attended Practical Law’s 2nd Annual Knowledge Management Forumcovering different aspects of the three main themes technology, enhancing client value and maximising efficiency. VQ’s Helena Hallgarn also held a session on efficient delivery of legal services. Carol Aldridge, Head of[…]

Last week the competition “Law as an App” was held for the first time within the Master Programme in Law & Information Technology, Department of Law, Stockholm University. Three teams of students were tasked to come up with an idea for a legal[…]

In January Richard Susskind released his new book “Tomorrow’s Lawyers”, which by some reviewers has been called “Susskind for dummies”. And yes, the first part of the book is a restatement of much of what has gone before in Richard Susskind’s[…]

Sometimes it is really refreshing when people turn issues around and deliver new ways of looking at things. Recently we read two reports from persons doing exactly that, both about Legal Services Act and about the low rate of female[…]

In the interesting webinar “New Thinking in Legal Services” held by Jon Busby, Sally Holdway and Michael Scutt, the myth “Why Do Lawyers Hate Technology?” was discussed; are lawyers more resistant to technology than any other profession and if so, can they really survive in today’s legal[…]

In the beginning of a new year it is always exciting to try and analyze what news that lay ahead and what trends to expect during the coming year. Especially this year, since 2013 seems to be a most challenging[…]

As 2012 has turned into 2013 we would like to take this opportunity to share some of the highlights from an inspiring year – our third – with VQ, and to thank everyone that made it all possible. VQ at[…]

A recent interesting and rich discussion between Chris Bull, international strategy consultant at Edge International and former chief executive of Osborne Clarke and former European chief operating officer at Integreon, and Erik Fors-Andrée, entrepreneur and former CEO of a legal service firm,[…]

V Mary Abraham has on her award-winning blog Above and Beyond KM recently had a series of blog posts featuring an immensely interesting conversation with Susan Hackett focused on deepening client relationships in meaningful (and profitable) ways. Susan Hackett served for 22 years as[…]

Jordan Furlong has in the recent insightful and thought-provoking piece “Law firm profits in the process area” made a comprehensive review of the expenses problems most law firms are facing today. We all know that demand is soft and that law firms[…]

Last week VQ attended the very interesting seminar “Free and Open Source Software: Business Potential vs. Legal Obligations” arranged by Black Duck Software and Delphi, with presentations by Peter Vescuso, EVP of Marketing & Business Development, Black Duck, and Johan Hübner, Partner, Delphi. During the[…]

We did not have the possibility ourselves to attend the Australian Janders Dean Legal Knowledge and Innovation Conference, but we have followed the reports and discussions closely and would like to provide a summary with some reflections on the thought-provoking and[…]

Earlier this year the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) addressed the challenges of the future on a global level for the arbitration community by arranging the inspiring conference Innovation in Arbitration, together with the Swedish Arbitration[…]

Based on a recent blog post by Niki Black with the question “Can you automate the practice of law?” a very interesting discussion has taken place in the legal community on Twitter and blogs during the last weeks. Niki Black concluded that[…]

In the fourth annual “Law Firms in Transition Survey” by legal consulting firm Altman Weil it is revealed that there has been a radical shift in attitudes since 2009. Trends that were largely seen as temporary in 2009 are now viewed by law firm[…]