Law21 Twitter Updates- The disappearing law firm: Rapid consolidation in UK conveyancing market: http://t.co/quNnGjVc
- China's Baker & McKenzie? Yingke continues expansion with launches in Poland and Turkey: http://t.co/FdXfhKOs
- Ducks are prepped :-) RT @gnawledge Getting my ducks in a row for presentations at #ACLEAMidyear in #NOLA. Co-presenting with @jordan_law21.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
One week left to enter the InnovAction Awards!
If your law firm or legal organization has successfully introduced a powerful innovation in the last few years, then you have one week left to enter the College of Law Practice Management‘s InnovAction Awards, as detailed in this previous post here at Law21, and reap the rewards. At a time when innovation is valued by [...]
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Law Society of British Columbia Benchers’ Meeting, Vancouver
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The end of inevitability
If you want an example of how the legal profession likely will respond to new competitors and a future marketplace very different than today’s, take a look at how Canada’s real estate agents are coping with change in their market. (Short answer: not well). The Globe & Mail reports on a rising wave of sell-it-yourself [...]
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Mind the dragon
I’ve written fairly extensively about India and its continuing and future impact on the legal services marketplace. I’ve not paid as much attention to China, but that country’s effect on the legal industry in the 21st century will be profound and could happen sooner than is widely expected. This is a brief note to acknowledge [...]
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Frugal innovation and the law
Lawyers need to learn a very important lesson from a salad spinner. Specifically, we need to understand the implications of the Sally Centrifuge, developed by students at Rice University in Texas: The necessary parts: one salad spinner, some hair combs, a yogurt container, plastic lids, and a glue gun. The finished product: a manual, push-pump [...]
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Why the 2010 InnovAction Awards matter
When the College of Law Practice Management launched the InnovAction Awards in 2004, Western economies had just climbed out of a tough recession (and were busily laying the foundations for a much uglier one) and law firms were starting a run of several years of unprecedented growth and profit. It was a time when the [...]
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How to compete on price