Law firm partners can improve employee wellbeing by using this simple function in Microsoft Outlook... Lots disagree, but I used to like using my weekends to fully relax. However, I was of course often on call in case something urgent came up

Law society published some guidance recently on e-signatures...lawsociety.org.uk/topics/busines… - some thoughts and comments... 👁‍🗨 Witnessing...they conclude that witnesses have to be "physically present" and you cannot witness somebody by video link. Probably correct as a matter of case law. It's a shame they aren't more forceful in their urge for change here...

1. Innovation is not all about you using Google Docs instead of Word, or Slack instead of email

2. Even if it was, getting Google Docs or Slack is not the hard part. Unearthing long-standing processes and adapting them to fit with those new tools is the hard part 3. Innovation is about looking way beyond "tools" and thinking about how you can be a better business regardless of snazzy tools

4. So the first step is to think of "how can we be a better business?". More profit? Better culture? Probably lots of things. Name them. Discuss them.

Still some law firm partners joining webinars as innovation experts even though their experience is really on advising tech clients, not instilling change in a law firm. It’s GREAT when they do u/s these things and can combine their legal skillset with product/change/etc skills Also it’s fine if they don’t have those skills, everyone should still speak up about their thoughts. My issue is more acting as if they are experts on everything and not having an understanding of the real issues at play (and not knowing they don’t have that understanding)

I hope that at some point in the future, we "componentize" legal documents. What I mean is: move from one huge document to lots of smaller documents that collectively make up the document. I've had a fun day playing around with this in @obsdmd I firmly believe that we won't (and probably shouldn't) be switching away from Word anytime soon. I also believe lawyers need to use Word properly before more sophisticated tools are developed. My opinion: for complex contracts, lawyers do not want anything other than Word

Had some interesting discussions this week on things lawyers often miss when using Microsoft Word. Here are some things I think are pretty important that most people don’t know about This is probably teaching the legal tech community to suck eggs. But just want to make the point that the reaction I usually get when I tell people about these is, “oh wow that’s clever”. That’s where most are at

It’s been an interesting few months for e-signatures in law. Just my opinion: none of the platforms are yet in a place where they really cater well “out of the box” for transaction signing processes run by law firms. Anybody looking at this area I welcome your thoughts 1️⃣ First and foremost, a signing process is a mission critical thing for lawyers. Once we trigger the signing process, things become pretty urgent and people get scared. Responses need to be snappy where people are having technical issues