Category: General

Greg Lambert of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog and I exchanged e-mail and had a video chat via Google+ last week. I started with a question about aggregating Tweets – my own and others – into an e-mail to which folks who wanted my...

Four mainstream media articles on Wednesday, 18 April 2012, about dynamic sectors of the economy offer potential lessons for BigLaw leaders.  Sales Are Stagnant, but I.B.M. Earnings Beat Analysts’ Expectations in the New York Times reports that IBM revenues are flat but earnings up because...

Every organization must decide whether to build or buy what it needs. Corporate law departments today are building more than they did and, when they buy, buying from different sources. Large law firms need to figure out the implications.  Three blog posts and an article...

Recent reports of a mixed profit picture for large law firms is a good reminder that strategy and differentiation now matter.  Last week the Hildebrandt Institute and the Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank released their 2012 Client Advisory (PDF). I find most striking...

Lawyers are at last working to improve legal processes, that is, how they actually do work. An overlooked process may well be communicating with clients.  Communication as a process became clear from two recent items I read. Litigation Predictions: Plain Speaking and Clear Thinking by...

I spent most of this week at Legal Tech New York. E-discovery dominated and is amply covered elsewhere. I’ll report here on a few products that caught my eye. Plus the most important legal news of the week had little to do with LTNY.  Contract...

Large law firms are merging again. The Wall Street Journal has a lead article on the trend today. I wonder though, just who mergers help and how mergers improve value for clients. Over the holidays, I had a conversation with partners from several large law...