Law firms thinking about their business and operating models need to consider which practices and matters rise to the level of “bet the farm.” Clients willingly spend on such matters,…

The law factory handles high volume, relatively routine legal tasks (blog posts, presentation). Like any factory, it needs automation. Whether law firms or vendors own the automation is an interesting…

I recently spoke with Ian Nelson of the Practical Law Company (PLC) about the role of professional support lawyers (PSL) in large US law firms.  Regular readers know that PSLs…

A Sunday post by Adam Smith, Esq. post provides good perspective on the theme of “law factory” versus bet the farm firms.  Who’s Signing Your Paycheck? opens with an anonymous…

Three articles today give us a read on the BigLaw market  This morning AmLaw Daily (9:41 AM) reported The Am Law 100 2011: Back in Black. This afternoon (5:45 PM),…

Lately I have wrestled with the question of whether large, high-end law firms (“bet-the-farm”) can offer more pedestrian, lower-end services (“Law Factory”). A New York Times article yesterday, Wreckage at…

Last month Toby Brown and I co-wrote “Bet the Farm” Versus “Law Factory”: Which One Works?. We explored how large law firms could segment their business. Toby discussed tiers of…