A Modest Proposal to Regulate Large Law Firms
General counsels complain about large law firms: too costly, bad service, and clueless about the clients’ businesses. After the failure of GC’s many attempts to fix the problem, regulation is…
Investing in Law Firms – Right Now [Interview of Lyceum Capital]
I have previously written that Australian and UK legal reforms allowing public ownership of law firms could mean big changes in law firms and legal technology. Lyceum Capital in the…
Measuring Lawyer Quality
I recently suggested lawyers call “timeout” when they see a problem in how law is practiced. Doctors and pilots use checklists and have the ability to call timeout. I think…
The Future of Law Practice Management Conferences
The number of law practice management conferences has exploded in the last 20 years. What does this tell us and where are we heading? In 1989, I saw few conferences…
2008 AmLaw 100 Preview
Law firm CIOs and other managers who want the proverbial “seat at the table” need to follow law firm economics. For large law firms that means the AmLaw rankings. I…
Funding Law Suits: Market Discipline to Manage Legal Risk?
Champerty is one of the those great law school words that few think about or remember in detail. Something to do with buying law suits being illegal. Funding them, however,…
Blogging is Not Dead – Law Practice Magazine Replies and Other Follow-up
Yesterday I asked if blogging is dead. That post generated 3 comments and some private e-mail; here then is a follow-up. My post yesterday pointed out that Law Practice Management…
Roundup (1/20/08): Lawyers in Decline, Legal Secretaries, Alternative Fees, MS Vista Woes
In this Roundup: the decline of law as a profession, small firm tries a new approach to legal secretaries, glimmers of hope for alternative fees, and Microsoft Vista woes. The…
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