Law21 Twitter Updates- This article on national law firm regulation was password-protected the other day; here's an accessible version: http://bit.ly/9fBDje
- More law schools should follow Northwestern's lead, swap tradition for rationality: http://bit.ly/9DQScz
- @peterfrankl All the more reason why firms shouldn't charge by the pilot, but by the successful flight. :-) #fixedfees
- Thx to @jasnwilsn @stevematthews @glambert @advocatesstudio for great comments on my case law update piece: http://bit.ly/cDJ00L
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Blawg Review at Law Firm Web Strategy Blog
In case you’re interested, I authored this week’s Blawg Review (#252) with my colleagues at Stem Legal’s Law Firm Web Strategy Blog. The theme is technology run amok: the fear many people (and especially lawyers) seem to have about the things we create, as expressed in popular fiction from Frankenstein to Battlestar Galactica. I’ve always [...]
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The new rules of pricing
Recently, I’m told, several GCs and senior lawyers of large law firms gathered in London for a high-level conversation about new billing mechanisms. One noteworthy observation to emerge from the meeting was the law firms’ insistence that whatever new mechanism was developed, it had to take into account chargeable time invested in the work. I [...]
Posted in Billing, Clients 2 Comments
The boutique exodus
I was talking the other day with a partner in a large national firm. For a variety of reasons, including the nature of his practice area, his annual billings have been declining for a couple of years now, and he’s been contacted about it by some of the senior people in the firm. He’s been [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Solo & Small Firm 3 Comments
The iFuture
My newest column is up at Slaw, winner for two consecutive years of Dennis Kennedy’s Best Law Blog Award. Follow the link to Canada’s best legal website.
Posted in Publishing, Research, Technology 8 Comments
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