Slashing BigLaw Libraries
The American Lawyer, in Law Librarians: ‘No More Sacred Cows’ (3 Sep 2009), reports on its annual survey of AmLaw 200 law libraries. The results, while not pretty, are perhaps not so surprising given wide-spread BigLaw lay-offs.. Here are the findings I found most interesting:...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Does the Legal Market Suffer the Same Over-Consumption as Health Care?
I have previously compared the health and legal professions, focusing on the evidenced-based approach in medicine and the appalling lack of anything like it in legal. Informed by the current national health care debate, I see another lesson for lawyers and law firm managers: find...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Law Firm Views of Legal Outsourcing – A Survey and Report
A recently released report by ValueNotes, a respected analyst firm, sheds light on what US and UK law firms think about legal outsourcing. Over at my employer’s blog, I co-authored a post, What Law Firms Think about Legal Outsourcing. It summarizes key findings of ValueNotes’...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
Software v Humans in Doc Review – A Statistical Study by Equivio
A new e-discovery study by Equivio statistically compares human versus software performance in designating responsive documents. The results are worth reading. I’ve argued that litigators and judges should rely on statistical analysis to determine the the most reliable and accurate approach to reviewing documents. In...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Innovation Ideas from Law Practice Management Magazine
Signs of Innovative Life in the Practice of Law in the April issue of Law Practice Management magazine offers multiple authors’ ideas on innovative ideas for law firms. Here, in slightly edited forms, are the two two items I contributed, one on legal outsourcing, the...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
4 min read
Cost Control as Part of AmLaw 200 Turnaround Strategies
Many legal publications and consultants offer advice for large law firms on how to stabilize and recover. Their suggestions focus on lawyer compensation, practice group strategy, alternative billing, and business development. I remain surprised at how little they focus on reducing law firm overhead. Last...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
2009 AmLaw 100 (for FY 2008)
The new Am Law 100 results are in and they are not pretty. Lessons of The Am Law 100: Nothing Grows Forever by Aric Press and John O’Connor (The American Lawyer, April 29, 2009). As I commented last year, BigLaw CIOs who want a seat...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
The Shape of BigLaw to Come: Cylinders
My prior two posts suggest that BigLaw may be going the direction of Detroit: slow motion train wreck explained as perpetual re-structuring. Consider that a few large firms have already had 2 or 3 rounds of lay-offs. If BigLaw re-thinks its business, what might it...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
4 min read
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