Class Action Spotlight: Prison Labor

31 March, 2017

In 2014, prisoners at the Aurora Detention Facility sued the company locking them up. These plaintiffs, immigrants who were imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claimed that the Denver-based private detention center violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by forcing them ...

Metrics 101: Net Promoter Score

10 March, 2017

How to Get Your Net Promoter Score Analyze Your Success with One Beautiful Number Earlier this month, Nathan made the case that attorneys should jump into the world of metrics, and start analyzing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). If you’re new to KPIs, you should start with a simple one. For...

IoT and the next Legal Revolution

17 February, 2017

In 1986, British police asked a molecular biologist to help them out. They were investigating two brutal rape-murders in the English midlands and a 17-year-old boy with mental disabilities had confessed. But the confession didn’t quite match up to facts. Fearing they were hounding down the wro...

Legal News: Neil Gorsuch Nominated to Supreme Court

3 February, 2017

What Would a Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Mean for Plaintiff-side Lawyers? Hailing from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado, Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch is best known for his comments on ‘culture war’ issues like religious liberty and euthanasia. But President Trump’s pick f...

#Found: the Information Revolution Comes to Case Management

1 February, 2017

The average information worker spends two hours every day searching for information (a number that’s probably higher for document-swamped legal workers). But a bit of overpriced tea set off the American Revolution — and the next information revolution is hatching from something as small...

Ethics of ALF: Navigating the New World of Legal Investments

20 January, 2017

Remember when ALF was a furry puppet on TV who ate cats? Simpler times. Now ALF refers to Alternative Legal Funding, the burgeoning new terrain of third-party investment in litigation. The tactic is exploding on the legal scene: one poll estimates that 28% of all law firms used ALF in 2015, which is...