I interrupt my four-part post on how a company can achieve higher quality legal services, that are faster, more accurate — and cheaper — by “disaggregating” business challenges that raise legal issues into tasks that (often) someone other than an attorney can do better than a lawyer (“Clients Need Legal…
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities famously begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ….” On one hand, the legal profession’s hourly billing-based business model rules the day in most law firms. And…
The case of Cass v. 1410088 Ontario Inc. contains this one sentence written by an Ontario Superior Court judge in the course of disallowing from an attorney’s fee request the amount designated for “legal research”: “If artificial intelligence sources were employed, no doubt counsel’s preparation time would have been significantly…
In Part 1 of this two-part series of posts, I described — how “judges’ personal foibles and idiosyncrasies — I mean their distinctive, well-informed, jurisprudentially ingenious perspectives — can drive litigation outcomes more than any objective view of the law or evidence would seem to warrant”. From there I compared…
In a recent post I wrote that judges’ personal foibles and idiosyncrasies — I mean their distinctive, well-informed, jurisprudentially ingenious perspectives — can drive litigation outcomes more than any objective view of the law or evidence would seem to warrant: “My introduction to this came when I was a prosecutor in Manhattan. When my…