Category Archives: Books

Book Review: The LegalBizDev Survey of Alternative Fees

By Jordan Furlong | Published: April 20, 2010
The LegalBizDev Survey of Alternative Fees, by Jim Hassett, Ph.D. (Boston: LegalBizDev, 2009) Okay, strictly speaking, it’s a report rather than a book. But I’m so interested in talking about this publication and its importance to the developing field of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs, a topic we’re focused on these days at Edge) that I’m willing [...]
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Book Review: The End of Lawyers?

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 10, 2009
The End of Lawyers? by Richard Susskind (London: Oxford University Press, 2008) This is an enormously important book, and if you have any interest or stake in how the legal marketplace will operate in future, you have to read it. The End of Lawyers? provides a sweeping assessment (and in places, an indictment) of today’s [...]
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Book review: The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies

By Jordan Furlong | Published: May 23, 2008
The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell (Chicago: American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section, 2008 ) The most important and remarkable thing about The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies is that it’s not really a technology book. This might come as a surprise, considering the book’s authors [...]
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Book review: Solo by Choice

By Jordan Furlong | Published: April 30, 2008
This is the first in what I hope will be a more than occasional foray into book reviews at Law21. There are so many good titles out there now that deal with law practice issues in an innovative way that I’d like to bring some of them to your attention. I have a few more [...]
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