Posts by Eric DeChant
(012) ASLE Founder Eric DeChant Explores Legal Engineering with Intellectual Property Professionals and Law Students At Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
March 8, 2022: ASLE founder Eric DeChant presents at a lunch event at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law co-hosted by the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) and the Northwestern Master of Science in Law (MSL) program.
Read More(011) The ASLE Inaugural Newsletter – December 2021
December 2021 What is a Legal Engineer?Legal Engineers apply a scientific approach to solving problems in law: Education – Teaching technical skills to lawyers and legal skills to scientists. Practice – Improving speed and efficiency of legal service delivery and legal operations. Courts – Enhancing the judicial process, Access to Justice (A2J), and legal analytics.…
Read More(010) Legal Engineers are in Demand
Hiring for legal engineers remains brisk and the outlook is assuredly sunny
There is some confusion in the marketplace about the role of a legal engineer
They blend the combined expertise of software engineering and the legal realm
(009) Legal Engineer Spotlight: Custom-Built Legal Technology Systems at VillageMD, a Scaling Healthcare Provider
Exploring the innovative legal operating system built in-house at VillageMD
Read More(008) In the Legal Calendar, 2021 is the Year of the Contract
We need to clarify how we see the complex parts holding modern business together.
Read MoreFight Human Trafficking with Law and Technology
Fight Human Trafficking with Legal Engineering
Read More(006) Legal Therbligs: Breaking down the practice of law into measurable parts
Many of you are familiar with the Time and Motion (T&M) study, where employees are monitored or recorded performing work tasks, and a time is assessed for each iteration of the task. In an automobile factory, this could be a task such as “install tire on vehicle.” After studying multiple employees performing the same task,…
Read More(005) How to Build Legal Technology, Part 3: Navigating the Culture of Law
Before I entered the world of law, for a few years I served as First Mate aboard Lake Michigan passenger vessels. Aiding the captain with navigation, ensuring passenger safety and maintaining every mechanical system while underway, a mate’s job is a near perfect combination of responsibility, freedom and power. When I needed to sum up…
Read More(004) How to Build Legal Technology, Part 2: The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Welcome to the second installment in our multipart series on building legal technology. If you’re looking for the first installment (Empathy, Design & Solutions), it’s right here. To sum up progress so far, we’ve identified the pain point/stated problem, and investigated root causes to confirm that the stated problem is the real one. We’ve researched,…
Read More(003) How to Build Legal Technology, Part 1: Empathy, Design & Solutions
This post is the first in a series on how to build legal technology. While LegalTech shares many attributes with its cousins FinTech (financial) and RegTech (regulations), there are many factors that make the legal ecosystem uniquely difficult to build within: ambiguous laws, regimented professional labor markets, maladapted business models and an extremely conservative resistance…
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