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Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets.  RT @robertsawhney Above the Law blog on the ACC value index for law firms http://bit.ly/4eLW9a || When firms finally encourage working virtually, glut will grow Hildebrandt blog post on new law...

Last week I spoke at the Ark Group Conference on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA). I gave a short presentation called Unbundling Repetitive Aspects of Large Matters, my effort at de-mystifying and simplifying alternative fees.  Inside and outside counsel would find AFA easier if, instead of...

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...

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...

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...