Will Massachusetts Benefit from Benefit Corporations?
Corporate transactions need not be zero-sum This past weekend, the new Massachusetts Benefit Corporation statute went into effect, making us the 11th state to enact such a law. Benefit corporations are...
View ArticlePfizer’s Model for Progressive Law Firm-Client Engagement and Collaboration
Law firm competitors can work together happily In the current month’s ABA Law Practice Journal, Susan Saltonstall Duncan of Rainmaking Oasis wrote a nice, concise commentary about Pfizer’s relatively...
View ArticleAdam Smith, Esq. – Is There Business in the Business of Law?
Bruce MacEwen, writing as incisively as ever at Adam Smith, Esq., posted Friday this first in a series of articles on whether law firms commit the resources they should to business management. Key...
View ArticleDoes Brightleaf Save Lawyer Lives?
Slate Magazine Takes a Stand on Sitting Okay. That title sounds like the old joke: “News Bulletin: A common household product may be killing you as you watch this television. That story, and film, at...
View ArticleHelping Lawyers Help Themselves, (sometimes in spite of themselves)
Brightleaf sells document automation technologies—and technology-leveraged services—that help lawyers work more quickly, efficiently, accurately, collaboratively, and profitably. We deploy those...
View ArticleWe love the top innovative legal departments of 2013 (Inside Counsel)
Top-10 innovative In-House departments think about this stuff a lot. Analytics. Process automation. Cloud computing. Proactive management of contract contents. Seamless integration of document...
View ArticleReeser’s Thesis: Law firms cut costs in all the wrong places (ABA Journal)
Quick-hit, sugar-buzz cuts are not good for you or your firm Yesterday’s ABA Journal carried in its New Normal section a scathing, withering (“scathering“??) critique–by California business attorney...
View ArticleLegal Big Data: analytics create structural improvement from unstructured data
Inside and outside counsel turn to big data analytics Karen Anzuni, CIO at Benesch Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, writes in today’s Law Technology News of how Big Data technologies and analytics...
View Article“Delightful” Contracts?
I just got through reading an excellent article by McKinsey & Co. entitled “Delighting in the Possible”. It’s their version of how to think outside the box simply by separating the possible from...
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