When it comes to products aimed at the contracts process, the flavor of the month AI. Ever a contrarian, that has been reason enough for me to take a look at what’s new in automated contract creation, with content provided by humanoids. Recently I did this post about HelpSelf Legal. Today’s post is about DraftLens, simply because the co-founders, Steve … Read More
We all like buzzwords, but in this post I return to a concept that might elicit not buzz but chirping crickets: document assembly. Yes, document assembly has been around for a while, and many don’t find it particularly exciting, but document assembly is the only way to scale up quality contract content, so it has always had my attention. Perhaps … Read More
When Thomson Reuters told me about how a Contract Express client, the Nevada law firm McDonald Carano, has gone about automating contracts, I volunteered to write about it—case studies make a nice change from free-floating speculation. So here’s my Q&A with Rob Sawyer, IT director at McDonald Carano. (That’s him in the photo to the right.) Ken: Hi Rob. Please … Read More
Longtime readers will remember Andrew Godwin, Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of Transactional Law at Melbourne Law School, as I did this Q&A with him in 2012. And since then, he’s been my gracious host on my seminar trips to Australia. Given that my March “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminars in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong (information here) are fast … Read More
In March I’m going to Beijing and Shanghai to give public (here) and in-house “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminars. [Updated 22 February 2016: I’m going back in March 2016; for more information, go here.] I’ve never been to mainland China, so it makes sense that I should prepare. I figured that in addition to learning how to get from the airport … Read More
In my seminars, I’ve encountered people who started out as litigators, then shifted to working with contracts. That caused me to wonder what that transition involves. Eric Hutchins, corporate counsel with the Cloud Legal Team at Oracle, is one such seminar participant. He was kind enough to have this exchange with me about his transition. If you’ve made such a … Read More
In November, I head to Asia—I’m giving seminars in Seoul, Tokyo, and Singapore. I’m particularly looking forward to my seminar in Tokyo. It will be my first trip to Japan in 25 years, and my first seminar in Japan. (For more information, go here.) I haven’t had much occasion to engage with Japanese contracts professionals. I expect that the seminar … Read More
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Recently, I’d been feeling restless. Irritable. Prone to laughing jags and fits of tears. I knew that I needed the wisdom of one graced with insight. So I set off a quest, and in the Karakoram, on a ledge high on Gasherbrum IV, I found him, sitting cross-legged in a loin cloth, making origami out of glossy law-firm marketing brochures. … Read More
At the ReInvent Law conference in New York earlier this month, I found myself sitting in front of a group of people from the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, or rather, from its consulting arm, SeyfarthLean Consulting LLC. I ended up chatting with Ken Grady, the CEO. (That’s him to the left.) Because I’ve long been aware of Seyfarth’s interest … Read More
