Staffing the Law Firm of the Future
Law firm staffing is more an artifact of history than design. Forward thinking law firms need to re-architect themselves. Most large law firms added staff over time without a master…
Roundup of Twitter Posts – Nov 2009
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. RT @robertsawhney Above the Law blog on the ACC value index for law firms http://bit.ly/4eLW9a ||…
Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) are Not as Hard as You Think
Last week I spoke at the Ark Group Conference on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA). I gave a short presentation called Unbundling Repetitive Aspects of Large Matters, my effort at de-mystifying…
Deconstructing O’Melveny Chair’s Remarks on BigLaw
A.B. Culvahouse, Jr., the chair of O’Melveny & Myers, has piece in Corporate Counsel today called A Shift That Can Benefit All of Us. He writes “reports of the demise…
Is Legal Consulting Going the Way of BigLaw?
BigLaw economics likely have changed permanently. Is the same true for the consulting companies that advise large law firms? Consider that virtual law firms and boutiques now compete effectively with…
Overhead Cost at Large Law Firms Matters After All
Large law firms historically have not spent much energy managing overhead cost. To be sure, BigLaw lay-offs are rampant but these have been aimed mainly at lawyers; staff have been…
Project Management: the Answer to What Ails the Legal Market?
BigLaw and the market it serves is hurting. Some believe the new normal will be the same as the old normal; I don’t. I am now convinced that project management…
BigLaw Starts the Post-Modern Era
When architect Philip Johnson put a neo-Georgian Chippendale pediment atop the then-new AT&T (now Sony) building in 1984, he ushered in post-modernism. When an architect of the way BigLaw firm…
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