Monthly Archives: March 2011

I get around

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 31, 2011
Time for another roundup of articles I’ve recently published elsewhere — a bit more extensive than usual — with the thought that you might find some of them interesting. I’d like to start with a link to the newest edition of the Edge International Review, a semi-annual collection of articles from my partners in Edge. [...]
Posted in Law21 | 1 Comment

The stratified legal market and its implications

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 25, 2011
An extraordinary conversation has emerged among multiple authors in the blawgosphere over the past few days. It revolves around a pressing question: in light of the huge changes in the marketplace, what will become of law firms? More specifically, given the increasing segmentation and stratification of the universe of legal work, how can law firms [...]
Posted in Big Firms, Clients, Innovation | 14 Comments

Mergers or acquisitions?

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 23, 2011
When Ogilvy Renault announced last fall that it was joining the Norton Rose Group, I went on record as saying I thought this was a watershed moment for the legal profession in Canada — that the world had finally arrived on our doorstep, more global firms were surely coming, and the law firm marketplace would [...]
Posted in Big Firms | 1 Comment

Presidential CLE, ABA Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 22, 2011
I’m honoured to be part of a Presidential CLE event, co-sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems and the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in Toronto on Friday, August 5, 2011. The working title of the presentation is: “Modern Family & Modern Attorney: How [...]
Posted in Speaking Engagements | 2 Comments

The 21st-century solo

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 10, 2011
(Author’s note: Read to the end to learn about a scholarship contest for sole practitioners.) During my recent webinar on legal marketplace trends with Susan Cartier Liebel of Solo Practice University, I raised a point about solo law practice that’s been bothering me for a while. Almost every lawyers’ association in North America, I noted, [...]
Posted in Innovation, Solo & Small Firm | 8 Comments

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