Discover Insights

The Shrinking Half-Life of Patent Portfolios: Are Companies Patenting Yesterday’s Innovation?

When Will The Legal Industry Become Customer-Centric?

When will the legal industry become customer-centric? Mark A. Cohen, Executive Chairman of the Digital Legal Exchange, takes a deep dive into why law is lagging business and outlines 35 tips to drive the change needed in his latest Forbes article.

“The trillion-dollar global legal industry has fast-talked change even as it has slow-walked it from the customer perspective,” Cohen writes. “Law touts customer-centricity, hands out countless ‘innovation’ awards, and gives itself high customer satisfaction marks notwithstanding client data that indicates otherwise.

“The legal profession should reduce its level of self-congratulation and increase its commitment to customer alignment, value, and service. This is not accomplished by proclamation.”

Read more here.

Related Content

Harmonizing Global Compliance with Confidence in 2026

Practical guidance for legal and compliance leaders navigating new and increasingly complex global privacy regulations.

Why EDRM 2.0 Matters: Preserving Simplicity While Reflecting Today’s Discovery Reality 

The original EDRM became an industry standard because it translated complex legal and technical workflows into a visual framework that was intuitive and easy to understand.  

The Copilot Paper Trail: What Legal Teams Need to Know 

Understanding where Copilot-generated information lives and how it’s captured is essential to avoiding gaps, missteps, or unnecessary risk during litigation.

High Stakes, Human Judgement: Applied AI for Legal and the EU AI Act

A practical, legal expert-guided report on responsible AI use that aligns to the EU AI Act.