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
Mapping the Legal Profession
What can lawyers learn by mapping the legal profession? A recent article and book got me thinking about maps, what they mean, and what they tell us about ourselves. That led to mulling what a ‘map of the legal profession’ would tell us. More Manhattan...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Are Law Firm CIOs ‘Last Among Equals’
The Wall Street Journal, in collaboration with MIT Sloan, published on Monday an article that pretty much slams chief information officers. Why CIOs Are Last Among Equals is by three IT academics and practitioners (see bios below). While CIOs are increasingly important to companies, the...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
The Rise of Legal Project Management
Legal project management (LPM) seems to be making major inroads into the profession. Back in April, the legal press carried two reports of interest. First, McCarthys’ project management plan in Financial Post (14 April 2010) reports that Canadian firm “McCarthy Tetrault is launching a technology...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
InnovAction Awards 2010 – Innovation as Antidote to New Normal
As I noted in my prior post, the new normal for BigLaw looks bad. Hiring armies of associates and raising rates, once the magic elixir, is now the poison hemlock. Firms need to differentiate and provide more value. And that means – gasp – innovation....
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
1 min read
BigLaw New Normal Looks Bad – More ‘WilmerHale Moves’ Coming?
More evidence has come in that the new normal for large law firms looks bad: the Hildebrandt Baker Robbins Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI). This index is a function of demand (billable hours), productivity (hours per lawyer), rates, direct expenses, and overhead expenses. The 2010...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
EDD Search Tools: My Conversation with Cataphora
One of the most interesting ongoing electronic discovery questions is the role and importance of search tools in document review. I recently spoke with Jonathan Nystrom and Dick Oehrle of Cataphora about this and related issues. Cataphora develops powerful language analysis software. Its pattern recognition...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
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