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: August 2010
Six for the road
I’ve been an active contributor lately to a number of other blogs and periodicals, so I thought you might be interested in checking some of them out. Here are six articles I’ve written at other legal sites recently. 1. “Letting the client decide,” Slaw: Brand new this morning, my newest column looks at a UK [...]
Law firms and the JetBlue guy
Even if former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater didn’t plan his famous chute-deploying resignation in advance, he seems ready and willing to exploit the moment, perhaps to land a reality-TV hosting gig. If it does turn out that his Big Quit was staged (like that of Elyse Porterfield, the “Dry-Erase Girl” whose hoax didn’t even [...]
Posted in Competition, New Lawyers, Talent 4 Comments
How to kill a law firm
There’s a story told about Jack Welch, former GE president — it might be from one of his books, or it might be apocryphal; quite possibly it’s both. The story goes that soon after he took over the company, he called in his vice-presidents and other senior people and advised them that countless smaller companies [...]
Posted in Competition, Innovation 13 Comments
Will-writing and the redefinition of “legal services”