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…
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…
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? …
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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