Deconstructing O’Melveny Chair’s Remarks on BigLaw
A.B. Culvahouse, Jr., the chair of O’Melveny & Myers, has piece in Corporate Counsel today called A Shift That Can Benefit All of Us. He writes “reports of the demise of “BigLaw” have, in the immortal words of Mark Twain, been greatly exaggerated.” Yet reading...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Early Case Assessment – Masters Session + Comments
This morning at the The Masters Conference, one of the leading e-discovery conferences, taking place in Washington, DC, I sat in on the first half of Early Case Assessment: Looking to the Future – From Early Assessment to Early Awareness. Here are notes from the...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
4 min read
How Defensible is Your E-Discovery Process? [Masters Conference Session Report]
This is a near-real-time post from the The Masters Conference, one of the leading e-discovery conferences, taking place in Washington, DC. This session is How Defensible is Your E-Discovery Process? Panelists: Dean Gonsowski, Esq., Vice President of E-Discovery Services, Clearwell Systems John Loveland, Managing Director,...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
4 min read
Is Legal Consulting Going the Way of BigLaw?
BigLaw economics likely have changed permanently. Is the same true for the consulting companies that advise large law firms? Consider that virtual law firms and boutiques now compete effectively with large law firms for a wide range of matters. This is true because Cost pressures...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Overhead Cost at Large Law Firms Matters After All
Large law firms historically have not spent much energy managing overhead cost. To be sure, BigLaw lay-offs are rampant but these have been aimed mainly at lawyers; staff have been cut in rough proportion to typical support ratios. News last week, however, suggests that firms...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Roundup of Twitter Posts – September 2009
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. @ChristianUncut How much longer before fax dropped from contact info? First dodo, then telex, fax soon? US doctors still rely on it – ugh 10:54 AM Sep 4th RT @EDDUpdate The...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Project Management: the Answer to What Ails the Legal Market?
BigLaw and the market it serves is hurting. Some believe the new normal will be the same as the old normal; I don’t. I am now convinced that project management – applied to law practice – will be part of whatever happens. Recently, I’ve seen...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Practice Support Highlights of ILTA 2009 Legal Technology Survey
The International Legal Technology Association recently published its annual legal tech survey. From a practice management perspective, here are some findings that stand out for me. I leave it to others to comment on infrastructure. The 2009 ILTA Technology Survey is available with login or...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
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
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