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Edge International
Jordan Furlong is a Partner with Edge International. One of the world's leading management consultancies, Edge has been providing strategic planning to law firms for more than 25 years. Learn more about Edge.
Stem Legal
Jordan Furlong is a Senior Consultant with Stem Legal and leads its Media Strategy service. Stem provides online profile and business development services for law firms in the U.S. and Canada. Learn more about Stem.
Speaking Appearances
Law21 Twitter Updates- RT @Riskin Bento… would anyone who is familiar with Bento who is willing to speak with me for 5 mins please ping me - thx :-) 07:08:37 PM March 08, 2010 from web
- New blog post at Stem Legal: Creating a Facebook fan club: http://bit.ly/bK7qkL 05:37:48 PM March 08, 2010 from web
- Compete with alternative legal service providers through the marketplace, not UPL claims: http://bit.ly/94kFq9 (Carolyn Elefant) 02:24:16 PM March 05, 2010 from web
- 10 tips for unbundling legal services: http://bit.ly/d4IFQ0 01:51:51 PM March 05, 2010 from web
- Don't hide your lamp under a bushel: lawyer advertising in church bulletins: http://bit.ly/cKPld8 01:50:16 PM March 05, 2010 from web
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Momentum
Momentum is one of those things everyone talks about but nobody can ever precisely define or quantify. It’s that sense that things are turning around or gathering speed in a certain direction, usually for the better — with a corollary borrowed from physics that the larger the object and the greater its velocity, the more [...]
Posted in Billing, Innovation, New Lawyers, Outsourcing 8 Comments
The UK crucible
North American lawyers have been fretting lately about the effects of this recession and what it means for their future. But the recession is only an amplifier or accelerator of change, not its source, and it doesn’t tell us much about the shape of things to come. If you really want to know what the [...]
Posted in Competition, Governance, Innovation 2 Comments
The best and the brightest?
It’s a small thing, but it’s been bothering me disproportionately, so I want to say a few words about one of my least favourite current phrases in the law: “the best and the brightest.” It’s normally used in a talent recruitment or institutional marketing capacity to describe the very small group of the very best [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Law School, Talent 15 Comments
The canary in our coal mine
My newest column has been posted at Slaw, winner of the Canadian Association of Law Librarians’ 2009 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing. It’s the latest honour for Canada’s best legal website, and yet another reason to read this post there and take in the rest of the terrific content.
Posted in Compensation, Law School, New Lawyers 1 Comment
The legacy of work-life balance
I think we’ll soon be closing the book on one of the legal profession’s most-used and least-understood phrases of the last decade: “work-life balance.” It was still all the rage just a couple of years ago — new lawyers invoked it as a mantra, talent recruiters bandied it about, and many legal publications (including those [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Billing, New Lawyers, Purpose, Satisfaction, Talent 10 Comments
Measuring lawyer productivity