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 works says there’s a new style in town, take note. Hildebrandt launches the week of...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Telepresence in Action
In January 2006 I wrote about the promise of telepresence, which is high definition, room-encompassing, virtually-there video conferencing. Today I tried it and it’s great. I attended a KM meeting today at the DC office of DLA Piper, hosted by my friend and former colleague...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
1 min read
Statistics + Surveys and Lawyers Don’t Mix
Last month, in As World Embraces Statistics, Lawyers Sit on Sideline, I lamented the lack of statistical mindset in the legal market. Why should we care? One reason: statistics can be very important at trial. Bob Ambrogi, in Statistics Surge as Evidence in Trials (IMS...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Sizing the Alternate Fee Arrangement Market
The legal market is remarkable for its lack of solid market research. There is much discussion about alternate fee arrangements (AFA), for example, but little data about how extensive the market is. I’m going to take a flyer and estimate total AFA from one data...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
1 min read
Slashing BigLaw Libraries
The American Lawyer, in Law Librarians: ‘No More Sacred Cows’ (3 Sep 2009), reports on its annual survey of AmLaw 200 law libraries. The results, while not pretty, are perhaps not so surprising given wide-spread BigLaw lay-offs.. Here are the findings I found most interesting:...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Roundup of Twitter Posts – August 2009
Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Do lawyers and law firm managers understand that many legal conferences are now fully monetized and heavily driven by vendor sponsorship? 1:13 PM Jul 28th AmLaw Associates Survey...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Highlights of Inside Counsel “IC-10” [Innovative Law Departments]
Each September, Inside Counsel published its “IC 10”, the annual winners of the magazine’s top 10 innovative law departments (Game Changers: The 2009 IC-10 innovative legal departments create winning solutions). Here is my overview of and comments about the ones I find most interesting. Medtronic...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice (ILTA 2009)
Real time blog post on ILTA 2009 session: Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice with Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? and “legal futurist”; Gerard Neidistch, Executive Director Business Integration and Technology of Mallesons; and by John Alber, Technology Partner of Bryan...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
9 min read
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