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Has the Recession Affected General Counsel Thinking about Law Firms?

After the last two years of severe recession and huge corporate legal spending cuts, I thought it was safe to assume that general counsel buying behavior had changed. It turns out, perhaps not. Reading What’s Really Going On in Today’s Legal Departments? a survey of...

Ron Friedmann, 15 years ago 2 min read

Outsourcing

Will Legal Outsourcing Drive Large Law Firm Innovation?

Innovators at the Barricades by Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith, Esq. argues that legal process outsourcing (LPO) is a disruptive force for law firms, citing Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma. “Outsourcing is here to stay” writes MacEwen. He describes different flavors using a 2 x...

Ron Friedmann, 15 years ago 3 min read

General

1, 2, 3, RESET! The 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium – Coming in October

The College of Law Practice Management and The American University Washington College of Law are hosting “1, 2, 3, RESET! The 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium” on October 22-23 at AU in DC. I encourage anyone interested in the future of the legal market and...

Ron Friedmann, 15 years ago 1 min read

Personal Productivity

Dealing with a Dell Personal Productivity Odyssey / Nightmare

About two weeks ago I got a new Dell notebook PC from my company. Ordering an extra battery for it on my own from Dell.com turned into a personal productivity nightmare. Dell’s famed model business model feels creaky, which may hold lessons for BigLaw. After...

Ron Friedmann, 15 years ago 3 min read

General

BigLaw Faces Challenges in Managing New Staffing Approaches

The Recorder 19 July 2010 article Is Adding a Second Tier for Law Firm Associates a Good Thing? asks a great question. The answer is “yes, but….”. The author, Justin T. Miller, J.D., LL.M., CFP

Ron Friedmann, 15 years ago 1 min read

Knowledge Management

AmLaw 2010 Law Librarian Survey – Interesting but Not Surprising

American Lawyer magazine has just released its 2010 large law firm library survey. The results are interesting but not surprising. Law Librarian Survey 2010: More Bang, Less Bucks writes-up the results and has links to survey data (free registration required). Almost one-half of the 86...

Ron Friedmann, 16 years ago 2 min read

Roundup

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

General

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

Supplier News

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

Knowledge Management

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

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