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.

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,…

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…

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,…