ILTA Talk Preview: Legal Inflection Point: Innovate Now
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference begins this weekend in Nashville. Here is a brief preview of the panel on which I am speaking on Wednesday, 20 Aug…
Big Law Changing or Being Disrupted?
The legal market has seen a running debate since the economic crash: is Big Law being disrupted? My short answer is no, it’s only changing. It’s not the three conferences in…
What is the Impact of a Low Cost Center When Law Firms Merge?
Earlier this week Kevin Colangelo of Elevate Services wrote a nice blog post, The Business of Law: Addressing Law Firms’ Concerns Over “Control” in Managed Services Relationships. He explains the benefits of…
Will Low Cost Centers become a Big Law Norm?
Another large law firm announced today the opening of a low-cost service center. Torys is opening in Halifax. The Globe & Mail in Bay Street law firm launches legal ‘incubator’ in Halifax reports that…
Legal Knowledge Management (KM) Trends Today
by Joshua Fireman & Ron Friedmann INTRODUCTION My business partner Joshua Fireman and I recently co-moderated a roundtable of large, NYC-based law firms to discuss legal knowledge management trends….
Does Citing Professionalism Protect Bad Lawyer Habits?
The legal press and blogs lit up this week when Dentons decided not to report profits per equity partner to the American Lawyer. The PEP discussion I leave to others. I found more…
Sizing the New, More Diverse Legal Market
Jordan Furlong’s recent blog post, An Incomplete Inventory of NewLaw, spurred an interesting dialog on Twitter among Liam Brown, George Beaton, Jordan, and me. We discussed the size of the NewLaw…
Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support
Today I presented at the ALA 2014 annual conference on Maintaining Profitability with New Approaches to Legal and Business Support. The slides are below. I previously provided a preview of the talk in my March 2014 blog…
Building a Law Factory
Given my interest in law factory, I was excited to read recently about a firm that actually built one. Foreclosure firm goes statistical to improve speed and quality in the ABA Journal (March 2014)…
Shifts in the Legal Market Summed Up in 4 Tweets
My post last week, State of the US Legal Market Summed Up in 3 Tweets, showed large law firms responding to flat demand by merging and cutting costs. Like last week,…
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