Statistics + Surveys and Lawyers Don’t Mix
Last month, in As World Embraces Statistics, Lawyers Sit on Sideline, I lamented the lack of statistical mindset in the legal market. Why should we care? One reason: statistics can be very important at trial. Bob Ambrogi, in Statistics Surge as Evidence in Trials (IMS...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Sizing the Alternate Fee Arrangement Market
The legal market is remarkable for its lack of solid market research. There is much discussion about alternate fee arrangements (AFA), for example, but little data about how extensive the market is. I’m going to take a flyer and estimate total AFA from one data...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
1 min read
Slashing BigLaw Libraries
The American Lawyer, in Law Librarians: ‘No More Sacred Cows’ (3 Sep 2009), reports on its annual survey of AmLaw 200 law libraries. The results, while not pretty, are perhaps not so surprising given wide-spread BigLaw lay-offs.. Here are the findings I found most interesting:...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Roundup of Twitter Posts – August 2009
Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Do lawyers and law firm managers understand that many legal conferences are now fully monetized and heavily driven by vendor sponsorship? 1:13 PM Jul 28th AmLaw Associates Survey...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Highlights of Inside Counsel “IC-10” [Innovative Law Departments]
Each September, Inside Counsel published its “IC 10”, the annual winners of the magazine’s top 10 innovative law departments (Game Changers: The 2009 IC-10 innovative legal departments create winning solutions). Here is my overview of and comments about the ones I find most interesting. Medtronic...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice (ILTA 2009)
Real time blog post on ILTA 2009 session: Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice with Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? and “legal futurist”; Gerard Neidistch, Executive Director Business Integration and Technology of Mallesons; and by John Alber, Technology Partner of Bryan...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
9 min read
Crafting an Effective Strategy – ILTA 2009
Crafting an Effective Strategy is an ITLA 2009 executive track session with panelists Greg Kaple, Senior Partner of Integrated Management Services, Inc. and Ash Banerjee, CIO of WilmerHale. I am attending the ILTA 2009 annual conference. This is a real-time blog post. Ash explains where...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Fixed Fees At Last?
Lawyers have discussed alternative fee arrangements (AFA) since at least 1989, when I first became a law firm manager. The economic crisis adds fuel to the supposed AFA fire. Now, a new article by two prominent lawyers argues the merits of fixed fees, pointing out...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
3 min read
Does the Legal Market Suffer the Same Over-Consumption as Health Care?
I have previously compared the health and legal professions, focusing on the evidenced-based approach in medicine and the appalling lack of anything like it in legal. Informed by the current national health care debate, I see another lesson for lawyers and law firm managers: find...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
2009 Futures Confence
The College of Law Practice Management is hosting a great “Futures” conference in September. I am a Trustee of COLPM. For the first time, the College is opening its program to the public. Two topics are on tap: (1) the future of law firms and...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
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