Category Archives: Chapter 3: Technology and the Private Practice
Darryl Mountain, Disrupting Conventional Law Firm Business Models Using Document Assembly (2006).
Darryl Mountain discusses an ongoing shift in the practice of law, as information technology and document assembly services take hold in the law practice business model. Mountain discusses the benefits of embracing such technology, as well as the barriers which … Continue reading
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What Can Information Technology Do For the Law?, by Jonathan Jenkins
Jonathan Jenkins notes that “much of current legal work is embarrassingly, absurdly, wasteful.” While information technology has taken firm root in the workplace routines of most every industry, practitioners of law are lagging in their embrace of all that IT … Continue reading
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Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and Efficient Than Exhaustive Manual Review, by Maura Grossman and Gordan Cormack
Maura Grossman and Gordan Cormack oppose the traditional view that manual, personal review of data by experts is more effective than automated e-discovery. While the efficiency benefits of automated e-discovery are immediately obvious, Grossman and Cormack draw upon recent research … Continue reading
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Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry
Daniel Martin Katz notes that lawyers are constantly asked to make predictions concerning exposure, costs, potential benefits, and much more. While experiential knowledge is certainly useful for making more accurate predictions, Katz argues that software-based quantitative legal prediction tools are … Continue reading
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