Innovative Mindset

The Evolution of the Law: Considering the Second Amendment and Cyberweapons

Innovation Also Means … Envisioning the Evolution of Our Laws and Our Legal Frameworks When we think about innovation in and of the law and in the legal profession, many people envision only the application of technologies to our current ways of providing legal services, including providing advice and counsel to and generating legal work products …

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GLOBAL PATHS FORWARD IN THE LEGAL INDUSTRY: CENTERS OF INNOVATION AND INSPIRATION

Creative destruction is the “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”   – Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” (1942)   Part I:  Legal Innovation Conferences – Setting The Stage for Progress By:  Karen M. Suber, Esq. ■ Justin Evans ■ …

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Ode to the Data Scientists, Technologists and Other Tech Specialists

Over the last several years, we have felt the wonderful breeze of fresh, invigorating winds penetrating the often-resistant-to-change legal profession.  That breeze has come through the ascendancy of some amazingly innovative applications intended to enhance lawyers’ abilities to provide, and clients’ abilities to receive and use, legal services and work products … intended to create …

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The Certificate: A Belated Thank You to My Mother — A Beacon of Progress and Trailblazer

We as women have come a long way, but we have much more to accomplish individually, together as women, and together with all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, creed or other personal demographic. In the spring of 2016, seven years after my mother’s passing, I finally gave myself the time and emotional space …

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Portrait of a Twenty-First Century Lawyer, Version 2.0.

Portrait of a Twenty-First Century Lawyer Version 2.0 – The “Delta Model” of Lawyer Competence In the late 1990’s, the beginning of a new century and the dawn of a new millennium loomed large with equal parts possibility and disaster. The Y2K bug was expected to wreak havoc on computer systems due to the practice …

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D x V x F > R

The Dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs “multiplied by” the Vision of the change sought “multiplied by” the First Steps required to effect the change sought must be greater than the Resistance to the change sought.” What helpful insights, tips, or strategies might you be willing to share that would help other professionals think through …

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Portrait of a Twenty-First Century Lawyer

Portrait of a Twenty-First Century LawyerVersion 1.0 In my first year at Harvard Law School, I took a much sought-after legal ethics course taught by Professor Lani Guinier. https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10344/Guinier https://today.law.harvard.edu/stop-celebrating-guinier-spirit-inspired/ Toward the end of the semester-long class, Professor Guinier gave us an assignment to put together a collection of images – a collage – representing …

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Developing An Innovative Mindset

Developing An Innovative Mindset Innovation is a “movement” around the world, and global initiatives across industries are illustrating that innovation is not just about incorporation new technologies into the work we do. The movement is rooted in the creation of new businesses, the quest to make products and services more suited to client needs, figuring …

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The Courage to Innovate

The Courage to InnovateWe can take a page (or a few pages) from Larry Fink’s Playbook. Innovation is not just about incorporating the latest technological advancements — automation, enhanced computing power and machine learning, among others — into one’s work; it is also about one’s mindset and building, through practice, the skills to question how …

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