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Selected writing on strategy, innovation, and the business of law.

Law firms have debts to pay before investing in innovation

Law firms have debts to pay before investing in innovation

Technical debt, data debt, process debt, talent debt. Why firms may be investing in the wrong things for the right reasons.

2019 · 6 min read
Balancing BigLaw innovation by measuring Innovation per Partner

Balancing BigLaw innovation by measuring Innovation per Partner

Partners are your investors. Understanding their incentives is critical to innovation success. Inventors turn cash into ideas; innovators turn ideas into cash.

2021 · 6 min read
Fractal dysfunction and the mathematics of BigLaw innovation

Fractal dysfunction and the mathematics of BigLaw innovation

Innovation shouldn't be a directionless fractal—it's a vector with direction and magnitude. Why most firms innovate for show, not results.

2018 · 7 min read
Tech, data, innovation and breaking down walls between legal and business

Tech, data, innovation and breaking down walls between legal and business

Commercialization is innovation's end zone. Most firms are on the wrong side of the innovation gap.

2019 · 6 min read
What's old is new: platforms, Reynen Court, Atrium and more from Legalweek 2020

What's old is new: platforms, Reynen Court, Atrium and more from Legalweek 2020

The platform effect, interoperability challenges, and why some firms are finally changing their approach to change.

2020 · 11 min read
The art, science and unicorns of data analytics

The art, science and unicorns of data analytics

BI is not analytics. The innovation wars will be fought over talent—unicorn analysts who can turn data into decisions.

2019 · 5 min read
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