Category: Management and Technology

When you run a $50 billion (US) business with 170,000 employees scattered across multiple countries working in global teams, it pays to make finding the right people easy. Global law firms are much smaller but face similar challenges.  In Moving from Expertise Location to Expertise...

This is the seventh in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is!  Tech Enthusiasts May be Your Worst Enemies. Value the lawyer...

This is the sixth in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is!   Let Chaos Work for You, Not Against You. Law...

What is the life span of a CxO at a law firm?  Carolyn Elefant’s blog post title – Life for Law Firm Marketers: Brutish, and Ultimately Short – summarizes the lot of law firm marketers. She asks “Is the short life span of law firm...

Joy London (of excited utterances) and I track branded blogs of large law firms. We have updated the list we first published in March 2007.  Our directory of large US firm blogs has grown: – 15 AmLaw 200 firms, up from 9, have firm-branded blogs...

This is the fifth in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is!  Honestly Held Beliefs May be Wrong. Lawyers vociferously support their...

This is the fourth in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is!   Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom – Not! Two decades...

This is the third in an occasional series of “maxims” on managing legal technology. Each one is a bit edgy – you have to decide where the line is on just how true it is!  Better to Seek Forgiveness than Ask for Permission. Getting lawyers...