Monthly Archives: July 2009

Free and the GP

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 30, 2009
Like Thomas Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell before him, Chris Anderson is becoming known for books that identify and name an evolving trend that connects business and society. You’ve probably read or head about his newest book Free: the Future of a Radical Price. It’s generating a tremendous amount of heat around the idea that the [...]
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2009 InnovAction Award winners

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 30, 2009
After serving two stints on the judging panel for the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Awards, I spent this past year as Chair of the Awards. One of the great parts of that job is that I get to contact the winners, which I had the pleasure of doing last week. Now that the [...]
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Chaos in the castle

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 24, 2009
One of my favourite expressions about innovation is that few revolutions have ever started inside the castle. (I changed it from “no revolutions” after someone pointed out that Mikhail Gorbachev was a pretty clear exception.) The idea behind the expression is that the people who benefit most from the status quo are also the ones [...]
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Spend wisely

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 22, 2009
One of the reasons — maybe the main reason — why lawyers are so risk-averse is that averting risk is kind of the whole point of having lawyers. People hire us for two reasons: (a) to fix a problem that’s already occurred, or (b) to arrange things so as to minimize or eliminate the risk [...]
Posted in Clients, Purpose | 1 Comment

Legal Research & Writing Pro Tele-Webinar

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 8, 2009
If you have an hour or so to spare next Thursday and would like to hear what I actually sound like, tune into my appearance on this month’s Legal Research & Writing Pro Tele-Webinar. On July 16 at 3:00 pm EDT, I’ll be sitting down with the LRWP ’s host, the incredibly bright and engaging [...]
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Time bomb

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 8, 2009
“This,” says The Economist in a recent special report, “is a slow-moving but relentless development that in time will have vast economic, social and political consequences.” Peak oil? The fiscal crisis? Climate change? None of these  — it’s the fact that the world is aging. Specifically, people are having far fewer children and living much longer [...]
Posted in Demographics, Generations | 4 Comments

2009 Futures Conference

By Jordan Furlong | Published: July 2, 2009
As you might know, I’m a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and attend its annual meeting every fall (not least for the bestowing of InnovAction Awards, the winners of which will be announced soon — see the College’s blog for an ongoing roll call of this year’s nominees). The College’s annual meeting [...]
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