Ari Kaplan

Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for the International Legal Technology Association’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016). Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development software platform and iPhone app. He is slowly teaching himself to code in python and is a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher.

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Reasons for Innovating

Innovation happens for many reasons. Ari Kaplan discusses the motivations of law firms for innovating.

eDiscovery and Innovation

Ari Kaplan discusses how eDiscovery and innovation are tied together.

Innovation as a Catch-all

Innovation is often looked at as another term for talent, development, training, and many other things.

Interviewing Knowledge Management Leaders

Ari Kaplan introduces his research and conversations with knowledge management leaders globally.

Three Key Points from Research

Ari Kaplan showcases three key data points from his discussions with knowledge managers.

Building Multidisciplinary Teams

Ari Kaplan examines how law firms are innovating to build multidisciplinary teams.

The Arbiters of Innovation

Knowledge management leaders have led the charge taking knowledge and repurposing it for other ends.

Building a Career on Innovation

Ari Kaplan discusses how professionals can build and grow their careers with innovation as a central driver.

Law Firms Doing Incredible Things

Innovation and knowledge management are helping drive law firms to do incredible things.

Why Innovation is Important

Ari Kaplan explains why innovation is important for law firms and corporations.

The Evolution of Knowledge Management

Many of the research subjects in Ari Kaplan's report could pinpoint when their roles evolved from knowledge to innovation.

Progress of Knowledge Management

According to Ari Kaplan, knowledge management has always been at the core of progress.