The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation

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: Basics Every Lawyer Should Know 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.

Lucy Bassli is an attorney, author of The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation and a former Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, she redefined how legal work is done and created one of the first managed service engagements with a law firm.

Lucy was tapped to teach the Legal Operations course for Suffolk University Law School’s Legal Innovation & Technology Certificate Program; and has a deep partnership with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, to deliver legal operations consulting to corporate legal departments.

Lucy is a highly sought-after legal industry expert who works with corporate legal departments and law firms on legal service delivery, automation, smart risk-taking and alternative resourcing models. She educates and consults with lawyers to take best practices in the legal industry to a new level. Lucy is also a strategy advisor for LawGeex, an AI legal start-up that automates contract review services.

She is a frequent writer and speaker on legal services innovation, legal technology and legal process outsourcing. In 2015, she was named to the National Law Journal list of Outstanding Women Lawyers.