Monthly Archives: February 2012

Rebundling the law firm

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 22, 2012
Perhaps most importantly, unbundling has the immensely positive effect of removing from lawyers our self-imposed burden of omnipotence. Our intense dislike of risk and our fervent striving for control has left us vulnerable to taking on more responsibility for our clients’ outcomes than we often should. The modern view of clients — one they share [...]
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Who should have the right to own a law firm?

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 17, 2012
And so the floodgates have opened, and here come the “non-lawyers” surging into the law firm ownership stream. The Legal Services Act‘s long-awaited authorization of Alternative Business Structures in the UK took effect in January. Within the first two weeks of February, here’s what followed (all transactions unofficial until approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, [...]
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Private Law Libraries Summit, American Association of Law Libraries 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 16, 2012
I’m very happy to be delivering the keynote presentation “Law Firms and Legal Knowledge Professionals in a Changing Marketplace” to the Private Law Libraries Summit at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries on July 21, 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The imaginary normal

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 16, 2012
The joke goes like this: “The optimist says the glass is half-full. The pessimist says it’s half-empty. The engineer says it’s twice the required capacity.” So what does the lawyer say when looking at the glass? In many cases, it’s: “Why hasn’t anyone refilled my drink yet?” I speak to more lawyers and legal professionals [...]
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American Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Institute 2012, Chicago, IL

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 14, 2012
I’m very pleased to make a return visit to the American Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Institute in Chicago on March 16, 2012, co-presenting a closing plenary with Fred Ury.
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What mergers can’t achieve

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 14, 2012
Back in my university days, I remember walking past the Graduate Students Office and seeing a photocopied diagram taped to the door. It was called “The Doctoral Candidate Flowchart,” and it provided a series of turns and directions for graduates struggling to get their thesis finally completed. My favourite entry on the flowchart was in [...]
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