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Some lawyers in Scotland are seeking to expand regulation of legal services in ways that seem unlikely to serve the public interest. A pretty niche topic, but worth understanding if you live there.
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“We can learn more from well-planned, user-centered experiments than roundtables and write-ups with very smart people”
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It is hardly news that projects which are predominantly large and complex are particularly hard to control in terms of cost and focus. This post seeks, however, to be a bit clearer about just why that is so, and thereby to lay some groundwork for how to do better.
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This post suggests how disclosure reform could be made a success by running some experiments and taking a genuinely evidence-based approach to assessing them. Lean Start-up ideas are introduced as an illustration of how to proceed.
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A 10 Nov 2017 judgment illustrates how serious the cultural challenges are in seeking to reform disclosure in large English litigation. This was a large case with well-known law firms on both sides and yet...
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Sean Parker, the billionaire founding President of Facebook, has expressed concern about the consequences of habit-forming tech...
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This post discusses the November 2017 proposals for reform of the English courts' approach to disclosure (what the broader common law world calls discovery) and suggests that it is unclear how they will succeed in tackling a problem which has proved impervious to twenty years' sincere efforts.
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This post outlines why I've joined Coordinated Law Ltd (Juralio Ltd’s services arm), after spending 31 years practicing law across New York, London, Brussels and Moscow (25 years at law firms, six in-house at an investment bank).
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