In 2002, reporters asked Secretary of Defense Donal Rumsfeld a question at a U.S. Department of Defense news briefing. In answering, he set up a taxonomy that has become popular to catalogue our state of knowledge. In the Rumsfeld Taxonomy,…
Another Reason to Re-Think Legal Education
Lawyers have suggested many reasons for changing legal education. I have another one to add to the list. I think legal education teaches inefficiency. From day one in law school, law students are taught to be inefficient in the practice…
Employer Sanctions Law Spawns Thriving False Document Business
On May 26, 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 upholding Arizona’s employer Sanctions Law. This is a victory for Governor Jan Brewer who posted on her Facebook page, ” A victory today for the State of…
Lawyers Must Overcome Their Fear of Tech
Imagine a conference attended by many legal industry leaders. This conference includes chairman of the largest firms, CEOs of the biggest non-law firm businesses, appellate court judges, deans from major law schools, and other notable figures in the legal industry…
Communication Law
The study of Communication law has been nation specific for many years. However, freedom of speech, press, and censorship are different in different nations around the world, therefore creating different rules and laws in each nation. These different policies are…
Top 10 Health Foods for 2020
/2020 brings a new decade and an opportunity to enhance lessons learned from the past. These foods are heavy in the vegetable/fruit category. Feel free to add in your favorite game bird, or four footed creature. Thanks to research by…
What’s Old is New Again: Gardening for Health, Wealth and Food Security
In hard economic times, people look for ways to supplement their food costs and increase security by raising their own food. This has taken on a whole new experience as gardening becomes a high tech low-work experience. Some basic definitions…
Living in the Wild West of Law
I recently helped moderate part of a webinar hosted by Viewabill during which we discussed a broad range of issues related to using metrics. The panelists were a combination of in-house and law firm lawyers, with some legal operations folks…
UK Innovative Lawyers Show US the Ways Big Law Fights Back
The FT Innovative Lawyers honors for 2014 have been released, so it’s time to peer across the pond and see what our friends in the UK have been doing. This look becomes more interesting each year as competition heats up…
Design and the Legal Industry
Stop and think about design in the legal industry for a moment. As with most things in the legal industry, design has not changed for a very long time. Prior to 1961, most typewriters used a Courier font. In 1961,…