Roundup of Twitter Posts – July 2010
It’s been six months since I’ve done a Twitter roundup. I was reminded that I had not done one by a friend who said he misses them. I definitely blog less since I started Tweeting 18 months ago. Articles I read or ideas I...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Managing Large Law Firm Staff in the New Normal
Large law firms will almost certainly not return pre-2008-crash economics. BigLaw will remain immensely profitable but firms will need to manage themselves more effectively. And this includes how they staff to support lawyers. The most recent evidence of the ‘new normal’ is the Altman Weil...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
A Financial Analyst’s View of Bloomberg Law
As a legal blogger, I fear living in an echo chamber. So it’s nice to find that some hot blawgosphere topics also engage the business world. I follow blogger commentary on Bloomberg Law as I suspect many do. So I offer here a different perspective...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Practice Support Lawyer (PSL) Count Remains Low In US
What is the state of the practice support lawyer (professional support lawyer or PSL) among US large law firms? I have not heard PSLs discussed much lately. So at a recent knowledge management meeting, I asked each attendee to report his or her firm’s number...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
1 min read
What Law Schools Move to Adjust Grades Up Says about the Profession
In In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That, the New York Times reports today that some law schools have artificially boosted grades. It’s hard to know where to begin assessing what this means – and why it is awful. The article reports that...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
BigLaw Still Not Supporting Working Virtually
Recent articles provide a good snapshot of law firm office design; sadly, working virtually does not appear to be on the agenda. Changing Space – Law firms (slowly) respond to egalitarian trends in office design (ABA Journal, June 2010) reports on BigLaw office design trends....
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Competing on Process: LPOs Pushing Law Firms?
Last week I read with interest Jordan Furlong’s blog post The evolution of outsourcing. He notes that though LPO is “in its relative infancy, legal process outsourcing has already had a huge impact on the legal services marketplace”. Jordan focuses on two effects outsourcing has...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
The Future of Lawyers?
What will it mean in the future to be a lawyer? For an excellent, sweeping view of the future, read Richard Susskind’s The End of Lawyers?. On his website, Susskind asks “what elements of their current workload could be undertaken more quickly, more cheaply, more...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
4 min read
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