Damian Curran

Technology doesn’t have to be new to add value. Innovation is as much about matching an old idea to a new application. The Gantt Chart was developed over a century ago. It is a visual design tool which communicates the relationship between, and duration of, different activities in a project. Despite its age, it remains…

(This is my second substantive post in a series on what the legal industry could learn from the construction industry. For my introductory note, see here.) The ‘tender’ process is widely used in the construction industry to help clients select the best contractor to carry out a project. Tendering allows clients to easily compare the…

This is my first substantive post in a series on the structure, tools and processes that the legal industry could borrow from the construction industry. (For my introductory note, see here.) In this post I focus on structure – for example, how a client engaging a law firm to run litigation might do so in…

What the legal industry can learn from construction – a series of short proposals The parallels jump out at once: Both the construction industry and big litigation are tasked with delivering complex, expensive projects for clients. Managers in both industries need to balance time, cost and quality. But whereas the construction industry has mature, sophisticated…

There is a relative absence of consumer-facing products in the otherwise rapidly growing and exciting space of legal tech. That absence is notable and has implications for access to justice. For the time being it seems that traditional law firms and advisory organisations remain the gate keepers to consumer level legal advice and access to…

On first blush, flowcharts seem an ideal tool for explaining to a client the order, time and cost of process driven practice areas such as litigation, migration and M&A. But flowcharts are not often used in advice delivery. That is unfortunate, as written advice cannot be absorbed by the reader as intuitively or quickly as…