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Chasing AI? Don't abandon legal ops fundamentals
Mike Tobias: Apr 15, 2025 8:45:00 AM
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71% of In-House Lawyers are ready to jump ship—What can Legal Ops fix to STOP THEM?
Mike Tobias: Apr 1, 2025 8:45:00 AM
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In-House Legal In A Doom Loop?
Mike Tobias: Feb 4, 2025 7:20:34 AM
There is an expression that comes from design thinking that goes something like "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." If that holds true, then the system that In-house Legal finds itself inside of must have been designed by...
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mot-r Fails to Secure $75 Million in Series N/O Funding to Revolutionize Legal Service Operations
Mike Tobias: Jan 17, 2025 11:34:54 AM
January 17, 2025 — Toronto, ONmot-r, a proudly old-fashioned and customer-focused provider of contract tracking, workflow, and dashboard solutions for the legal industry, announced today that it has not raised $75 million in a Series N funding round. The...
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Avoiding the Post-DMS Pit Of Despair
Mike Tobias: Jan 16, 2025 10:15:39 AM
The mandate of this blog is to help people avoid making the same old bad decisions when it comes to legal technology and legal operations. It has been inspired by Charlie Munger’s quote, “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have...
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Avoiding LegalTech Stupidity: The Hidden Curse of Technical Debt
Mike Tobias: Dec 12, 2024 12:08:22 PM
The mandate of this blog is to help people avoid making the same old bad decisions when it comes to legal technology and legal operations. It has been inspired by Charlie Munger’s quote, “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have...
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Avoiding LegalTech Stupidity: Adapt or Suffer
Mike Tobias: Oct 9, 2024 10:46:09 AM
The mandate of this blog is to help people avoid making the same old bad decisions when it comes to legal technology and legal operations. It has been inspired by Charlie Munger’s quote, “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have...
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One Loop or Two?
Mike Tobias: Jun 8, 2024 10:35:05 AM
I've written previously about the effective application of the OODA loop to legal operations, and also where it doesn't apply. While it is a very useful tool in the right context, it is insufficient without being an embedded component in a learning...
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From Fighter Pilots to General Counsel: Using The OODA LOOP
Mike Tobias: May 23, 2024 8:00:31 AM
I had the good fortune to attend a session at Alternative Events’ Tech Summit where Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at TravelPerk, was speaking. While the content of all the sessions at the Summit was excellent, Andrew surprised me by referencing John...