Sometimes, innovators need some help from a trusted guide to keep their efforts on track and moving toward successful outcomes. In this comprehensive, practicable, and highly-readable legal innovation guide, innovators, innovators-to-be and leaders and decision-makers in law firms, law departments and legal organizations will be led through the key pieces of successful innovation processes to enhance the probability of success and decrease the probability of embarrassing and costly failures. Drawing on his many years of experience in law firms and law departments, his well-known expertise in innovation and legal technology and his familiarity with and involvement in the legal innovation movement, Dennis Kennedy covers the entire waterfront of innovation issues, shares his best tips and techniques, answers hard questions, and gives many helpful examples. This book will be an excellent desktop companion for your innovation journey. and an essential resource for forward-looking legal organizations of all kinds and for their customer as well.

With countless articles and blogs on legal innovation, it is nearly impossible for attorneys to keep pace. The good news: lawyers can continue to learn well into their years of practice With some updated vocabulary and a few real examples lawyers can learn to wow their clients. The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation will help them on that journey, providing details on the: - Legal ecosystem - Rise of legal operations (or legal ops) - Top innovation concepts lawyers need to know - and more By providing bite-sized lessons on topics that every practicing lawyer should be familiar with, this book will keep attorneys from getting left behind. Author Lucy Endel Bassli is ready to share her hard-won innovation advice with women looking to advance and commercial attorneys looking to shake things up.

Although legal innovation is critical for law firms, with clients pushing for more efficient, cost-effective, and automated services, very little has been written about how to drive successful enterprise-wide transformation efforts. As innovation and legal operations functions proliferate globally, Nicola Shaver has written the first definitive book to guide legal professionals through setting up an effective innovation function and driving successful culture change and initiatives across a legal organization. In The Handbook for Legal Innovation, Shaver, the 2020 ILTA Legal Innovation Leader of the Year and a College of Law Practice Management Fellow, outlines how to set up an effective strategy for innovation, provides practical guides for conducting current-state audits, establishes frameworks to help identify project priorities, and outlines how to build and grow the right team. With 20 years of experience in the legal industry, including a decade each of practicing law and driving innovation initiatives in large legal organizations, Shaver draws upon her experience as well as broad industry knowledge to inform this practical guide. In addition to strategy suggestions, the Handbook delves deeply into methodologies for change. Shaver provides an overview of effective methods drawn from other industries that can be leveraged within legal to support and supercharge innovation efforts, equipping lawyers and legal innovation leaders with tools that will help them drive real change within their organizations.

Make LinkedIn Work for You isn't just a "how to" on using LinkedIn; it delves deeper into creating a strategic approach to your use of LinkedIn based on who you are, where you are in your career, and what you want to accomplish on LinkedIn, and prompts you to ask questions like: -What are you "hiring" LinkedIn to do for you?-How do you make yourself "discoverable" within your network?-How do you bring the real world into LinkedIn and LinkedIn into the real world?-How do you want to communicate with your network?The book focuses on the three parts of your LinkedIn presence that you must understand well: Profiles, Connections, and Participation. We have long called these the essential building blocks of LinkedIn. In many ways, the three blocks notion is our fundamental insight in this book. If you understand and get these blocks right, you will "get" LinkedIn and should find it a valuable use of your time.Table of ContentsPART I: Getting Started1. Setting Up A New Account Or Reviving Your Existing Account.2. Using Linkedin On Your Mobile Devices3. Optimizing Your Settings4. Developing Your Linkedin Strategy5. The Three Building Blocks Of Linkedin: Profile, Connections And ParticipationPART II: Profile6. Your Basic Profile7. Going Further With Your Profile8. Advanced And Power User Tips: Profile9. Profile Frequently Asked QuestionsPART III: Connections10. Getting Started With Connections11. Making Even More Connections12. Using Linkedin Search Tools13. Advanced And Power User Tips: Connections14. Frequently Asked Questions: ConnectionsPART IV: PARTICIPATION15. Participating On Linkedin: Posts And Groups16. Social Proof: Endorsements And Recommendations17. Monitoring And Engaging With Your Network18. Developing A Linkedin Content Strategy19. Advanced And Power User Tips: Participation20. Frequently Asked Questions: ParticipationPART V: Conclusion: Planning Your Linkedin Activity21. A Basic Linkedin Action Plan For EveryonePART VI: Making Linkedin Work For You22. Building Your Personal Brand On Linkedin23. Linkedin For Job Search24. Linkedin For Law Students25. Moving To New Practice Area Or Location26. Using Linkedin As A Business27. Linkedin For Millennials And Others New To The Platform28. Linkedin And Legal Ethics29. Resources

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Innovation in legal services remains a hot topic, yet technology adoption does not always keep up with the hype. While there is a plethora of academic and professional research about the area, there is a lack of guidance on the practicalities of helping professionals actually get innovation right.This book focuses on implementing innovation and the innovation process in a law firm, from pilot to adoption and everything in between (whether that be within the law firm itself or undertaken by the law firm's clients). Divided into four parts to reflect the innovation lifecycle of examine, explore, develop and reflect, this book is a practical guide for those starting or doing innovation in law firms. Students keen to know how innovation is implemented in practice will also find it useful.Innovation in Law Firms is packed with insight from the authors who lead the award-winning innovation team at Weightmans, and who have experience of starting innovation from scratch, as well as viewpoints ranging from the strategic, board-level perspective to the on-the-ground experience of actually doing innovation projects. It is practical rather than theoretical in style and aims to fill some of the adoption gap by exploring the highs and lows of innovating in law firms, and outlining practical steps that can be taken to mitigate some of the potential pitfalls. Whether at the start or part way through an innovation journey, this book allows readers to dip in and out providing guidance on specific issues as they arise as part of the innovation lifecycle.