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This week I read an excellent analysis of BigLaw financial performance. I share it here and add a few comments.   My friend Steve Nelson of The McCormick Group, an executive search firm with a big legal practice, is an astute observer of the legal...

As law firms adjust their strategy to the new normal, they also need to adjust their operations. We may see more staff lay-offs but the time has come to re-think operations, not just cut. Historically, I’ve seen relatively few articles on law firm operations; so...

I am attending Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual? at the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. Here is my session report on the concluding remarks by David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Director, Program...

I am attending Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual? at the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. Here is my session report for “Business Models: Strategy and Governance.”   Presentations: Business Models in Legal Practice: Toward Definition and...

I am attending Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual? at the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. Here is my session report for the session “Creative Destruction and Innovation.”   First, however, the panelists: Presentations: Coase, Schumpeter, and...

On Sunday evening, 21 March 2010, I attended the first panel of Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual? at the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. Reproduced here are my live Tweets from “Emerging Relationships Between Law Firms...