Author: Graeme Johnston

Graeme Johnston / 30 January 2023 Informating …[A]ctivities… are transformed into information and thus become visible and measurable… [This] can be empowering. However, it can also be used to centralize power… [to] enable… monitoring… and [to replace people] by machines. However, these machines create new forms of information that can be used, simultaneously creating new… Continue reading Information as power

Graeme Johnston / 24 January 2023 If you mention ‘process’ to many lawyers, it tends to conjure visions of something handed down from above. Potentially imposing burdens upon you for the benefit of others. Possibly managed by people who don’t really get the realities of legal work. It may in some contexts also have the… Continue reading Making progress with process in complex legal work

Graeme Johnston / 9 January 2023 After the Roman period, the first laws surviving in written form for part of what is now England are those of King Æthelberht of Kent, around 1400 years ago. As you can see from the image, they were much concerned with putting a price on unhappy occurrences. A simple system… Continue reading The price of everything (in the law)

Graeme Johnston / 30 December 2022 A perennial topic is whether to conceptualise work, organisations, documents, knowledge – and information generally – in The more flexible approaches have benefits which are so well-known that I won’t try to summarise them here. Trees also have serious limitations and dangers, also well-known. So. Nobody would claim that… Continue reading Trees, imperfection and disorder

Graeme Johnston / 27 December 2022 This is the first in a series of posts on how I think the ways legal topics are handled are likely, or unlikely, to change over the next decade or so. My focus will be on the UK, but some of the themes will be of broader relevance. Although there… Continue reading Improving how legal stuff is addressed: ten old themes

Graeme Johnston / 23 October 2022 There has, for years now, been great talk of ‘transparency’ as a thing to aim for in legal work, though sometimes more instrumental words are used, like reporting, analytics and dashboards. The desire is, I think, typically to know: On the surface – what’s being done and, more pointedly,… Continue reading Two types of transparency in legal work

Graeme Johnston / August 2022 I’ve recently been sharing some short videos on LinkedIn. Here’s a list for finding it easily. I’ll update this as I add more. Friday 5th August – experimental start: a poem about a mouse and what we’re doing at Juralio. Saturday 6th August – first video on complex work in… Continue reading Videos on complex work in teams

Graeme Johnston / 2 July 2022 The image shows a message I’ve just sent to Juralio early access participants seeking views on which templates to add next. 🟢 Juralio helps you to map your work and get it done. Project management and more. Simple and pleasant to use, and scales to complex stuff while still… Continue reading Juralio templates

Graeme Johnston / 22 June 2022 Some news. We’ve just gone live with an early access version of Juralio, our software to help you map your work and get it done. You can try it out on a free-of-charge basis until the end of July.* A short (27 second) video by my colleagues Molly Macgregor and James Friel is… Continue reading Juralio early access June / July 2022

Graeme Johnston / April 2022 Over the last few weeks, a lot of my spare time has been dedicated to the noslegal open source taxonomy project. I’ve done various LinkedIn posts recently about it, which I thought would be useful to collate here – 28 March: announcing the upcoming release and linking to a 1… Continue reading noslegal – open source legal taxonomy