Outside Investment in Law Firms – A Plus for Legal Tech?
Some who now manage or have managed law firm technology believe that legal software has never reached its full potential. One impediment is now under attack. Ethics rules bar non-lawyer…
Data, Data, Everywhere… Someday in Legal Too
Can law firms take advantage of explosive data growth? And I am not talking about e-discovery. Last Friday, New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation, a…
Should Law Firms Price Dynamically?
I recently received an interesting e-mail from a friend who is a senior manager in a large law firm. He raised the idea of “dynamic pricing”, which is how airlines…
Twitter Roundup – April 2011
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Hildebrandt law firm Peer Monitor Index Q1 http://bit.ly/mzBZLz || PMI up, rate pressure, success more variable,…
If Clients Really Hire Lawyers… What that Means for BigLaw
A Sunday post by Adam Smith, Esq. post provides good perspective on the theme of “law factory” versus bet the farm firms. Who’s Signing Your Paycheck? opens with an anonymous…
The State of BigLaw: What the AmLaw 100 2011 and Two Other Reports Today Tell Us
Three articles today give us a read on the BigLaw market This morning AmLaw Daily (9:41 AM) reported The Am Law 100 2011: Back in Black. This afternoon (5:45 PM),…
The State of BigLaw: What the NLJ 250 Tells Us
The latest National Law Journal (NLJ) 250 report is out, the list of the nations top 250 firms. The results, while not surprising, serve as a good reminder that BigLaw’s…
If Cisco Can’t Manage Flip, Can BigLaw Manage LawFactory?
Lately I have wrestled with the question of whether large, high-end law firms (“bet-the-farm”) can offer more pedestrian, lower-end services (“Law Factory”). A New York Times article yesterday, Wreckage at…
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