Category: Management and Technology

I regularly write about the advantages – and challenges – of working virtually. Several recent items are good reading for anyone interested in this concept.  1. Reasons to Hold Out Hope For Balancing Work and Home in the Wall Street Journal (1/11/07) reports that “What’s...

The large law firm talent arms race just got hotter; NYC first year salaries escalated to $160k. Money, however, is barely a weapon when you think about it. All firms pay the same, so cash is not a differentiator. There’s an easy and cheap way...

Non-practicing lawyers as managers is a fairly recent trend in large law firms.  Last week, Clark Cordner, Director of Client & Practice Services at WilmerHale, and I explored the role of non-practicing lawyers and “start-up” teams at the IQPC Law Firm Management Series conference, Law...

It’s always good to know what your boss is thinking. Now, BigLaw CIOs can.  Law Firm Leaders Have Mergers on the Mind in LawFirmInc. (2/12/07) reports on the magazine’s first-ever survey of large law firm COOs. The survey has a very respectable 42% response from...

With law firm mergers booming, national and global law firms are becoming the norm. What defines success for the new behemoths?  For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy Part (New York Law Journal, 1/12/07) describes the challenges one firm faces in creating a...

My prior post asked Do Lawyers Collaborate as Much as Others? Two data points suggest opposite answers.  Lawyers may view skeptically the eWeek article I cited, Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise. If so, they need to ask if Allen & Overy is...

Do lawyers collaborate the same way and as much as other professionals?  In thinking about this question, first consider 3 recent articles Smashing The Clock, the Business Week Dec 11th cover story, explains how Best Buy is moving away from a culture of office “face...

What can law schools do to help newly minted lawyers be technologically prepared?  A LexisNexis-funded study underway at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School seeks to recommend “how next-generation law school curricula can preserve the fundamentals of critical thinking and legal history, while at...