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Disagree. I am pretty close to the Biglaw tech scene. While you’re correct that most firms would say they use all of those things, the actual implementation and

Disagree. I am pretty close to the Biglaw tech scene. While you’re correct that most firms would say they use all of those things, the actual implementation and execution isn’t there. It’s not even a nuanced critique, I mean maybe 1% of amlaw 100 revenue is even touched by anything in your list. There is a lot of work to be done, and great opportunity in the legal industry.

staticautomatic 7y ago
Agreed. For all their tech initiative claims and hiring of in-house "legal ops" people and even developers, your typical attorney uses hardly any legal tech outside of e-discovery or billing.
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- manigandham 7y ago
  What else does a typical attorney need to use that would make a meaningful difference?
  - staticautomatic 7y ago
    I can only speak for teams of attorneys, and my experience is mostly working with litigators rather than transactional lawyers, but among other things: 1) It's shockingly rare to see use of project management tools, even simple stuff like Basecamp or Notion. When multiple people need to, say, review a draft of a filing in sequence, they're typically either keeping track of it in their heads or in a spreadsheet. "Excel is totally adequate for this" is wrong for a variety of important reasons. 2) Infrequent use of file indexing, even Windows' built in. I see firms using document management software running old versions of SQL with totally the wrong kinds of indexes and which usually take forever to find anything or crash in the process. 3) If they exist I haven't seen them in use, but a lot of teams would benefit from some middle ground between nothing and e-discovery software for searching across relatively large but not enormous collections of documents. A rudimentary on-prem or local CRUD app that could ingest a variety of shit, OCR it if necessary, dump it into Elastic, and let you FTS it would probably sell like hotcakes to small and mid-sized firms.
manigandham 7y ago
That's because humans are the main cost, like I said, and no amount of software is going to make them go any faster. If there's really such a better execution to be had then Atrium was in the best place to find it. Yet it didnt.

staticautomatic 7y ago

Agreed. For all their tech initiative claims and hiring of in-house "legal ops" people and even developers, your typical attorney uses hardly any legal tech outside of e-discovery or billing.

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manigandham 7y ago
What else does a typical attorney need to use that would make a meaningful difference?
- staticautomatic 7y ago
  I can only speak for teams of attorneys, and my experience is mostly working with litigators rather than transactional lawyers, but among other things: 1) It's shockingly rare to see use of project management tools, even simple stuff like Basecamp or Notion. When multiple people need to, say, review a draft of a filing in sequence, they're typically either keeping track of it in their heads or in a spreadsheet. "Excel is totally adequate for this" is wrong for a variety of important reasons. 2) Infrequent use of file indexing, even Windows' built in. I see firms using document management software running old versions of SQL with totally the wrong kinds of indexes and which usually take forever to find anything or crash in the process. 3) If they exist I haven't seen them in use, but a lot of teams would benefit from some middle ground between nothing and e-discovery software for searching across relatively large but not enormous collections of documents. A rudimentary on-prem or local CRUD app that could ingest a variety of shit, OCR it if necessary, dump it into Elastic, and let you FTS it would probably sell like hotcakes to small and mid-sized firms.

manigandham 7y ago

That's because humans are the main cost, like I said, and no amount of software is going to make them go any faster. If there's really such a better execution to be had then Atrium was in the best place to find it. Yet it didnt.