After the last two years of severe recession and huge corporate legal spending cuts, I thought it was safe to assume that general counsel buying behavior had changed. It turns out, perhaps not.  Reading What’s Really Going On in Today’s Legal Departments? a survey of...

The College of Law Practice Management and The American University Washington College of Law are hosting “1, 2, 3, RESET! The 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium” on October 22-23 at AU in DC. I encourage anyone interested in the future of the legal market and...

The Recorder 19 July 2010 article Is Adding a Second Tier for Law Firm Associates a Good Thing? asks a great question. The answer is “yes, but….”.  The author, Justin T. Miller, J.D., LL.M., CFP

Large law firms will almost certainly not return pre-2008-crash economics. BigLaw will remain immensely profitable but firms will need to manage themselves more effectively. And this includes how they staff to support lawyers.  The most recent evidence of the ‘new normal’ is the Altman Weil...