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Do or Die: Outside Law-Firm Rosters Shrink as Client Spending Grows
Lest any of us get too comfortable in our swivel chairs, a new report from Michael B. Rynowecer, president of the BTI Consulting Group, indicates that in 2018 – despite spending more on outside legal...
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Next Step in Law-Firm AI Implementation? Getting the Lawyers on Board
Remember when we all learned that humans use only about ten percent of their brains? Well, apparently that is an urban myth – science has shown that we use all parts of our brains every day. However,...
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The Use of AI in Investigations: Keeping Up with the Regulators
In a recent article for Artificial Lawyer, Richard Jeens and Natalie Osafo – partner and associate respectively at Slaughter and May – point out that regulators and corporates are increasingly using...
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Unlikely Bedfellows Unite under Internet Brands’ Umbrella
Last month, Internet Brands – a vertical marketing conglomerate in which marketing for the legal industry forms a major pillar – announced that it was changing the name of its law-services website from...
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Will Machine-Assessed Lie-Detector Tests Become Admissible in Court?
The Artificial Lawyer reports that the European Union is testing a system of automated lie-detector tests for use at its international borders. The technology “will use a digital avatar to interview...
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ALM Appraises Threat from Big Four’s “Trojan Horse”
In an article published recently on The American Lawyer, writer Dan Packel reports that this year, “For the first time, PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG seized four of the top five spots on [the U.K....
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Are Your Clients Requesting Lawyers Based on Their Online Bios?
When lawyers first started creating bios of themselves for use in firm promotion, clients generally used them to choose a firm, or to check out who they’d be working with after the firm had made the...
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Ask Gerry Riskin: Should Corporate and Other Transactional Groups Spin Work...
Client Question* While it seems to be a commonly held assumption that corporate and other transactional groups in firms spin work off to litigation teams (and that this is and should be the primary...
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New App Allows Users to Create “Binding Video Contracts”
Lexigogo, one of the newest entries into the “apps for legal services” marketplace, offers users the capacity to create video contracts “to validate simple agreements without the hassle of creating...
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The Big Four and The Legal Industry: Who Should Be Afraid?
A recent instalment of the podcast series LegalSpeak addresses the question of whether or not recent forays into the legal arena by the accounting industry’s Big Four actually comprise a significant...
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The Power of “How”
I propose* that you join the most effective law firm leaders in the world and start asking “how,“ rather than “whether.” Let us start with an illustration. Here are two questions that a managing...
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One Third of Law Firms Plan to Increase Marketing and Business Development...
Michael Rynowecer, founder and president of BTI Consulting, reports that a remarkable one third of law firms in the USA plan to increase their spending on marketing and business development (MBD) in...
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Law Firms Must Heed This GC Warning: “If you want our business, diversify!”
An open letter to law firms penned by 170 general counsel and corporate legal officers from companies across the U.S. warns law firms whose record of partnership promotions fails to reflect the...
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Lawyers Wise to Use Intelligence – Artificial or Otherwise – When Submitting...
A column by Robert Ambrogi published recently in Above the Law may attract the interest of legal professionals for its comic or its cautionary value – depending on the reader. Ambrogi details the...
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The Future of the Law Includes More than the Legal Elite
In an article on LawSites entitled “Five Days, Two Conferences, One Echo Chamber,” Massachusetts lawyer and legal journalist Bob Ambrogi describes his recent attendance at two legal conferences held in...
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Black Law Firm Partner Says GCs Open Letter on Diversity Is More PR than...
Don Prophete, Partner, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete Several weeks ago I reported on a significant initiative by 170 general counsel and corporate legal officers – an open letter, published...
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Lawyer Well-Being: An Issue We Must Address Right Now
There may never have been a better time to read The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, a 2017 report by the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being. The Report...
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Scam Against Dentons Serves as a Reminder: No Law Firm Is Immune
In a world where unfamiliar and complex communications systems are the norm, it is not only the legislatively naive and digitally undereducated who are subject to expensive cons and scams. This...
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QNBT: Extracting Real Value from Non-Billable Time
“Your billable time is your income; your non-billable time is your future.” – David Maister Non-billable time gets little respect* Many perceive non-billable time as something that can be conjured at...
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We Must End Abusive Behavior toward Articling Students, Junior Lawyers, and...
A recent article in The Toronto Star draws attention to a widespread problem that should concern every lawyer in our profession. It describes the growing number of reports to the Discrimination and...
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