IEUniversityDrivingInnovation
3 reasons why legal teams are hesitant to adopt legal tech
5 min
What is the reason behind legal’s hesitancy to adopt legal tech? We explore three main reasons and how to overcome the challenge in simple steps.
Management, Innovation & Technology
Opportunities in cyber compliance
4 min
A lack of IT knowledge exposes compliance officers to the Darwinism of the labor market. Compliance officers must acquire new skills in risks, system processes and cybersecurity controls.
A turbulent year for data protection
6 min
On Data Protection Day, we take stock of a particularly hectic year, for many reasons other than data protection, but also for what has happened regarding data protection itself. The pandemic has forced us to strike a balance between the right to data protection and other fundamental rights, such as public and individual health.
The new professional roles in digital legal services
7 min
In current times, no business can survive without some form of digitization. Even the most traditional sectors, like the legal profession, are adapting and creating new roles.
What Law Best Allows Effective Automation through Legal Tech? A Survey of Europe’s Law Markets
4 min
Francisco de Elizalde’s latest paper was chosen by ‘Machine Lawyering Conference 2021: Human Sovereignty and Machine Efficiency in the Law’ as one of the five ground-breaking keynote papers. Learn more about his latest work.
Natural Language and Legal Tech: Could technology expand our understanding of jurisdiction?
5 min
Technology continues to transform the traditional legal landscape with new digital tools, making data-driven legal practice an increasingly powerful reality.
Digital transformation in legal goes beyond tech, it comes down to talent
4 min
The most brilliant innovations are irrelevant if lawyers lack the skills to use it. To release the potential of digital transformation in the legal sector, lawyers must think first about investing in talent and people who can make that technology useful.
Could laws be analyzed from the perspective of technological efficiency?
5 min
What would make a rule technologically efficient? Professor Francisco de Elizalde argues that it would depend on the rule having two characteristics: objectivity and standarization.
Smart Contracts: neither contracts nor smart
6 min
While the term smart contracts may have us drawing associations with AI and machine learning, there’s no real relation between these technologies. Let’s debunk the myths of smart contracts and explain how they may be used now and in the future.
Amidst OECD’s delay, Spain proposes its own Digital Service Tax
6
The world reacts as the OECD faces a setback in its efforts to set new international tax principles for the digital economy. In the meantime, several countries move forward with their own tax measures.
Compliance-as-a-service: A new concept transforming the compliance function
5 min
With increased regulatory complexity, the role of the compliance function is expanding, moving from reactive to strategic. Compliance-as-a-service is the solution.
5 Important Career (and life) Lessons from Yoko Takagi
7 min
Yoko Takagi, partner at White and Case, on the advice she believed would have been useful when she was starting her career and that double as good life advice in this particular context.
Five ideas for the Spanish project on platform work, plus a reminder
6 min
As technology advances, we must strengthen social institutions. Growing agreement could allow policymakers to prepare the ground for action, with the goal of offering realistic solutions for everyone in the “platform economy.”
Legal Education Reimagined
6 min
Soledad Atienza recognizes the opportunities for the future of legal education and the profession.
Role of Natural Language in Driving Innovation in Legal Industry
6 min
Natural language has important and diverse roles to play in facilitating critical innovation the future legal industry will require.
Reinventing recruitment processes and work experience programs for legal professionals
3 min
Legal professionals find themselves having to adapt to a new virtual work environment
The 6 Emotional Skills All Lawyers Should Develop
5 min
The ability to identify emotions is a great ally for lawyers but few take advantage of it. Now is the time to incorporate it at the company and individual levels.
The Liquid Lawyer
4 min
The shift in today’s working world is pushing corporate law to find a new normal. Corporate lawyers need to move seamlessly with this shift and take on the new profile of a liquid lawyer.
Coordination in blockchain: Are smart contracts to outsmart competition rules?
8 min
If the old competition rulebook has weathered the storm of digital economy so far, blockchain may pose too much of a challenge: it may bring a change of incentives that at least calls for more flexible and cooperative enforcement, albeit perhaps not a complete paradigm shift.
Legal Project Management: An Environment for Nine Intelligences
6 min
There is more than one way to approach Legal Project Management. Creating a positive, diverse and productive environment will allow lawyers to expand their knowledge, skill-set and reach their full potential.
Three keys to providing successful online legal services
5 min
How can lawyers, traditional law firms, and company legal departments address the digital transformation of their services?
A Data Economy: The Oil of the 21st Century
6 min
How to build the data economy: creating a legal and policy framework that sets the right safeguards while allowing us to reap the rewards of data
Legal design thinking for a better ecosystem
5 min
With most non-urgent legal activity having been suspended indefinitely as a result of the pandemic, the judicial system is facing a steep uphill climb. With this unprecedented digitalization of the workforce, returning to age-old methods is no longer viable; innovation is crucial.
Our increased reliance on digital platforms during COVID-19 and beyond
7 min
The COVID-19 crisis has seen videoconferencing move beyond the merely useful to become an absolutely essential tool for business and individuals. What are the ramifications of that change on privacy, security and trust?
Managing legal and tech risks of remote work
8 min
More and more employees are working remotely by the day. Against this backdrop, companies need to take the utmost care to protect employees and confidential company information. What are the IT and legal risks companies face as workers go remote?
Management and Creativity to Embrace Remote Work
6 min
In a moment where the personal and professional lives of lawyers are being upended, how can lawyers adapt and successfully manage remote work in times of uncertainty?
Shaping the 21st-century lawyer
6 min
In today’s modern digital era, traditional legal practice and long-established law firms are facing constant disruption and complex challenges. Lawyers are having to change the way they think, the way they work, and the tools they use, which begs the question—what does the future look like for legal professionals?
Why the advance of legal technology isn’t going to wait
5 min
What are the seismic changes that are taking place in legal technology and what can we expect in the near future? If 2019 was a record-breaking year, 2020 is already on pace to set the bar even higher.
Legal tech’s next challenge: The real deal behind the ‘tech’ in legal tech tools
7 min
As the new decade begins, and digital transformation continues to overhaul the law industry, a new frenzy of hopes and predictions for legal tech is shaping up. But the jury’s still out, and we need to focus on what really matters
The not-so-alternative Alternative
7 min
The idea of going alternative is replacing everything that is traditional. In the next future, will Alternative Legal Service Providers be the norm?