If Law Firms Could Make One Change to Improve Client Value
If law firms could make one change to improve client value, what would it be. I Tweeted that on 26 November 2018 as Question of the Week. That Tweet spawned many great replies, which I share here. If you don’t know Twitter, welcome to the...
Ron Friedmann,
7 years ago
3 min read
Law Firms Learning from Industry
Mainstream media articles often hold lessons for large law firms – if management can look beyond the industry and story-line specifics. And some days, articles coincidentally group to offer a lesson book. The Friday, 2 November 2018 print edition of the Wall Street Journal published...
Ron Friedmann,
7 years ago
4 min read
Microbrands – What Can Legal Learn from Them?
Last week I learned about microbrands. I share below highlights of Why You’re Buying Products From Companies You’ve Never Heard Of (Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal, 4 October 2018) , an article describing them. I then ruminate on what the legal market can learn from this. Microbrands...
Ron Friedmann,
7 years ago
4 min read
Two Paths to Legal Innovation that Changes How Lawyers Work
In my last post, I wrote unless innovation changes how lawyers work, it likely delivers little benefit to firms or clients. Since publishing that post 10 days ago, three recent items suggest two ways to get lawyers to change how they work. Law Department –...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
4 min read
What a Successful Legal Tech Entrepreneur (Jeroen Plink) Seeks in a Legal Tech Start-Up.
We read about legal tech start-ups daily. I thought it would be interesting to learn how an experienced and successful legal tech entrepreneur thinks about investing his own money in legal tech start-ups. I met Jeroen Plink about a decade ago when he came to...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
8 min read
Law Firm R&D and Innovation Initiatives List
It’s time to update my March 2016 list of law firm R&D and Innovation Initiatives. In June 2015 I blogged Law Firm R&D Initiatives Grow – Time for a League Table? after reading a few articles about large law firms with formal and funded R&D initiatives. After...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
2 min read
From Innovation to Adoption at Mishcon De Reya
Many large law firms tout innovation. But as I point out in my first post this year, 2018 Prediction – Lawyers Must Change How They Work, innovation has value only with adoption: lawyers must change how they work. Reports I hear make me wonder how many lawyers actually...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
5 min read
Snapshot of the Legal Market, Missing Link, and Mystery Disconnect
Two recent surveys, the Altman Weil 2017 Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey and the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor® provide a...
Ron Friedmann,
8 years ago
6 min read
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