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1 month ago | 
elevate.law | Raj Bains |Pratik Patel |Vince Vetri
March 20, 2025 general counsel contracts Consulting best practices elm law department contracts lifecycle management Again this year, GCs everywhere are experiencing déjà vu.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Pratik Patel
Whether you’re new to the Linux command line or have been using it for years (or maybe even decades?), I’d like to show you my top five command-line interface (CLI) tools: SDKMAN, eza, ffmpeg, queue and find. You’ll be more productive and feel like a CLI rockstar after reading this article. Open a terminal and let’s get to know these tools!1. SDKMAN for Managing JDKsSDKMAN, which stands for “Software Development Kit Manager,” is a tool for managing multiple SDKs and switching between them easily.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
August 28, 2024 Consulting law firm law firm strategy The best one-word summary of the end of my 2024 summer is ‘conferences’. Earlier this month, I made my way to beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, for the ILTA conference, where hundreds of law firm leaders and legal innovation providers gathered to discuss new technology and the emerging trends that will impact the legal industry.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
August 27, 2024 Consulting law department innovation artificial intelligence If you are a general counsel or head of legal operations, you have likely recently spent time pondering a hot question from the business: How does legal, including outside counsel, plan to use technology – in particular, generative AI – to support and enhance legal work?
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
July 22, 2024 legal ops law departments law firms law firm consulting law department consulting I’ve had the privilege of serving as Head of Innovation at Elevate since its inception in 2011. Leading this team continues to be a highlight of my career.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Pratik Patel |Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |Darryl Taft
Developers are strange animals; we will use a shiny new tool or library in an application without too much thought but are cautious when deploying to production. No one wants their pager to start buzzing in the middle of the night, not to mention the pressure to keep applications running at high 9s of reliability. Developers are adventurous when building and coding applications but very conservative on the operational elements.
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May 3, 2024 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
May 03, 2024 legal operations CLOC Elevate created ‘The House of Legal Ops’ in response to common issues faced by General Counsel and AGCs trying to either understand or validate what should be (and most importantly, what shouldn’t be) included in the term (and team) ’legal operations’. We heard:– how should we structure our legal operations function and team? – what should be included? – what is basic vs. advanced?
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
February 09, 2024 Practising Lawyers trends technology ai legal industry These days, whenever a customer asks me for my view of generative AI for law and where and how they should be using it, I reply with a simple analogy: Think ‘Google Maps for lawyers’. Analogising generative AI for law to mapping technology begins with thinking about legal matters as journeys.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hassam Ali |Pratik Patel |Dushyant Singh Dahiya |Motility The
1 INTRODUCTION Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant public health concern in the United States (US), with an estimated 147,950 new cases and 53,200 deaths reported in 2020.1 Despite being the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US, recent trends have shown a rise in CRC incidence among individuals aged 55 years or younger.2 Advanced CRC is more prevalent in the younger demographic, in part because of screening inconsistencies.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
elevate.law | Pratik Patel
October 06, 2023 legal ops law departments law department consulting corporate law In Part I of this series, we outlined strategies to ‘run legal like a business” so that a law department drives maximum business value. Here, we focus on two of those strategies, each concerned with finding better and faster ways to manage and complete routine legal work.
