Thoughts on the New York Legal Tech Meetup’s Mission The New York Legal Tech Meetup recently tasked its members to offer ideas about what the Meetup’s mission should be. Here are thoughts about that mission that I posted to the Meetup’s Slack group. (These ideas are mine alone; they don’t…

Write Once, Run Everywhere. — Contract Drafting Heresies I estimate that 90% of the provisions in the hundreds of commercial bank loan agreements that I reviewed for large to mid-market corporate loan transactions said the same thing but with different language Because so many of these loan agreements used different…

My Dad was a corporate lawyer in private practice until he retired 15 years ago in 2015. Having heard me rave about the practice changes since his retirement, Dad asked me to describe this “better way” for practicing law and do so by taking him through a typical day at…

So, you’re a legal tech startup founder, hire, investor or otherwise involved with the legal tech startup world. Given that involvement, which view below do you choose to favor? Or, can we avoid choosing and have both? Are the proponents below straw men? The ‘Debunker:’ “The ‘law’ isn’t some ‘brooding…

I recently founded Legal Tech StartUp Focus, an online social network exclusively for people interested in legal tech startups. …