Usable legal artifacts: a thought experimentImagine a Voight-Kampff test to distinguish lawyers-who-draft-for-a-living from everyone else. The relative weight placed on precision…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
Dealers, zombies and lawyersThis is a book review which I published on 12 May 2017 on a blog. There have been a few developments since, but I thought it still…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
Resolving disputes online: the human factorThis article summarises an online discussion held on 23 September 2020, organised by Future of Law: Dundee (FoLD) betweenSep 28, 2020Sep 28, 2020
Back to the office… or not quite that simple?This article summarises an online conversation between people from three prominent organisations in Dundee Scotland on July 21st, 2020 on…Jul 31, 2020Jul 31, 2020
‘Making it simple’ in lawWhy it matters, why it’s hard, ideas for approaching itJul 3, 2020Jul 3, 2020
Distributed legal work: privacy and opennessIt appears at least possible that one of the lasting effects of the 2020 pandemic will be to catalyse the trend towards enabling legal…Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020
Lawyer time recording: three possible futuresIn a recent article, I traced the history of granular time recording in law firms. ‘GTR’ for short. It involves capturing a record of…Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020
One hundred years of lawyer time recording: is there any escape?Discussion of time recording in legal services — and of its progeny, time-based pricing — can be more than a little frustrating.Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
