Monthly Archives: November 2010

That’s me all over

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 30, 2010
In addition to keeping busy with client work, I’ve had the opportunity to write a number of articles recently and to be interviewed for a few others. I thought you’d be interested in checking some of them out. As part of the newest edition of the Edge International Review – a journal of Edge partners’ [...]
Posted in Law21 | 1 Comment

The law firm of the future: Thomson Reuters

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 22, 2010
Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post called “Destroying your own business” that explained why law firms, in order to adapt to the emerging marketplace, needed to blow up their own business models and essentially start over. I also lamented the fact that hardly any law firm was willing or able to do this. [...]
Posted in Competition, Innovation, Publishing | 13 Comments

Canada’s Big Bang

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 16, 2010
Earlier this fall, I gave a presentation to a Canadian law society that described the key trends in the current legal marketplace and forecast where they’re likely to lead in future. As part of the presentation, we discussed a series of hypothetical future developments that would require the profession’s regulators to respond. One of them [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Globalization | 5 Comments

Destroying your own business

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 11, 2010
Well before Blockbuster Video actually filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this fall, The Onion produced a prescient video about a museum tour based on the movie rental chain: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past. One dazzled visitor remarks: “It’s like stepping into a time machine … it’s hard [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Competition, Innovation | 4 Comments

What’s your sports department?

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 9, 2010
As both a former journalist and a recovering professional sports fan, I was intrigued by this entry at Mark Coddington’s blog about innovation in newspapers. He reports on a study that found the department within most news organizations most amenable to innovation is actually Sports. The two journalism professors who prepared the report, along with [...]
Posted in Innovation | 1 Comment

Legal Marketing Association 2011 Annual Conference, Orlando, FL

By Jordan Furlong | Published: November 1, 2010
I’m very pleased to be leading off the opening “Masterminds” panel on client service and strategy at the 25th Annual Conference of the Legal Marketing Association in Orlando, Florida, on April 4, 2011.
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