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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- Absolutely delighted to welcome Pam Woldow (@pwoldow) to Edge International! http://bit.ly/bUHvP1 04:09:10 PM September 01, 2010 from web
- Legacy industry in decline: RT @The_AV_Club Sick of losing to cable, networks want Emmys split into 2 shows next year: http://bit.ly/c5nkSi 04:31:02 PM August 31, 2010 from web
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
2009 InnovAction Award winners
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
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
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 [...]
Legal Research & Writing Pro Tele-Webinar
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 [...]
Time bomb
“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
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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Free and the GP