Big Law – Still a Buyer’s Market
This week Altman Weil released its 2014 Chief Legal Officer Survey. It confirms the buying power of general counsels remains strong. The survey presents a range of interesting results. I call…
Legal Market and Large Law Firm Trends from TRI COO – CFO Conference
This is a live blog post from the Law Firm COO & CFO Forum by Thomson Reuters. The opening session is The Market Setting – Trends Driving New Approaches to…
Big Law Changing or Being Disrupted?
The legal market has seen a running debate since the economic crash: is Big Law being disrupted? My short answer is no, it’s only changing. It’s not the three conferences in…
Middle Office Support for Law Firms – Captives v Outsourcing
Many large US law firms own and operate low cost service centers. These “captives” provide a range of “middle office” support such as IT, finance, word processing, and business research….
Adopting Legal Project Management at Gowlings – Case Study in Change Management
Until 2008, large law firms experienced ever-increasing demand and hourly rates. Success was easy – just avoid big blunders. That’s not true today. Clients now have market power and want…
Law as Engineering (ReInvent Law Live)
David Howarth on Law as Engineering at ReInvent Law NYC. (Live post – forgive errors.) What is that lawyers do? Public thinks it is litigation. In UK, 80% of lawyers…
Knowledge Management Priorities in Large Law Firms – 2014 Survey
I report here on a recent privately-conducted knowledge management survey. Survey Background and Questions. This survey is part of the preparation for a meeting of KM professionals to discuss KM…
Clifford Chance Adopts Continuous Improvement Program
This week Clifford Chance, one of the largest law firms in the world, published a white paper called Applying Continuous Improvement to high-end legal services. I view it as a potential…
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