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Monthly Archives: February 2009
It’s the InnovAction Awards, Charlie Brown
This is an article I wrote for the February 2009 edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Today e-zine about innovation in the practice of law and the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Awards, which I’m very happy to be chairing this year. The awards are now open and are accepting applications starting next week. [...]
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Lawyers as a public good
Thanks to San Diego lawyer and blogger Joseph Dang, I belatedly caught up with an article in California Lawyer magazine about the University of California at Irvine’s intention to launch a new law school this fall. If you’re not familiar with this plan, UC Irvine ambiti0usly aims to debut in the Top 20 rank of [...]
Posted in Law School, Purpose 3 Comments
About ABA TECHSHOW
Just a quick note this morning to take part in an Internet meme I can get behind: a two-day promotional effort for ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago April 2-4. If you don’t know (and if you read this site, that’s pretty unlikely), ABA TECHSHOW is the world’s premier legal technology CLE conference & expo. It’s a [...]
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The corporate client disconnect
I’m coming to think that many corporate clients get the outside counsel fees and service they deserve. After reading this LegalWeek article about in-house lawyers’ predictions for 2009, I had to note the ongoing disconnect between what corporate law departments say is important to them and what they actually do. The article speaks with some [...]
Posted in Clients, Innovation 4 Comments
The disappearing associate
Well, that was ugly. In case you missed it, or you need a summary, here’s what happened on a day (yesterday) that the ABA Journal called Black Thursday and Above The Law readers have decided should be named (a little early) the Valentine’s Day Massacre: Holland & Knight fired 70 lawyers and 173 staff DLA [...]
Posted in Big Firms, New Lawyers, Recession, Talent 7 Comments
Please take Law21′s readership and market survey
Whether you’re a subscriber, a semi-regular reader or a first-time visitor, I’d be tremendously grateful if you could take a few minutes to fill out Law21′s first readership and market survey. Working with renowned market research firm The Strategic Counsel, we’ve put together a brief (10 questions) survey to help find out three things: demographic [...]
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Book Review: The End of Lawyers?
The End of Lawyers? by Richard Susskind (London: Oxford University Press, 2008) This is an enormously important book, and if you have any interest or stake in how the legal marketplace will operate in future, you have to read it. The End of Lawyers? provides a sweeping assessment (and in places, an indictment) of today’s [...]
Posted in Books, Innovation 13 Comments
CLE’s steep learning curve
@LTNY online networking panel. This is not what I expected. Must either leave/kill self soon as possible. Haven’t we all been there at one time or another? Stuck in a presentation that we devoutly wished we’d never signed up (or been obliged) to attend? Up till now, all we could do was suffer in silence [...]
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What the recession will bring
My newest Law21 column is up at Slaw. Click the link to go read it, and then take some time to peruse all of Slaw’s other great posts and conversations at what Dennis Kennedy calls the best law blog in the business. As always, I’ll also post the article here. “Are we looking at a [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Clients, Recession 2 Comments
The future law book