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How I learned to stop worrying and love project management

By Jordan Furlong | Published: April 9, 2010

Project management is about as close to a silver bullet as the legal profession could ask for these days. Consider: It’s easy to understand. It’s inexpensive to implement. It lowers costs. It improves quality. It enhances communication. It facilitates lawyer training. It makes fixed fees profitable. It makes clients happy. If it could cure cancer and direct an Oscar-winning movie, it could hardly [...]

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Edge International

Jordan Furlong is a Partner with Edge International. One of the world's leading management consultancies, Edge has been providing strategic planning to law firms for more than 25 years. Learn more about Edge.

Stem Legal

Jordan Furlong is a Senior Consultant with Stem Legal and leads its Media Strategy service. Stem provides online profile and business development services for law firms in the U.S. and Canada. Learn more about Stem.
Speaking Appearances
- September 30: State Capital Group 2010 Annual Conference, Las Vegas
- October 1: Law Society of British Columbia Benchers' Meeting, Vancouver
- November 23: 6th Annual CBA Law Firm Leadership Conference, Toronto
Law21 Twitter Updates
- The key to different innovation priorities among GCs and law firms? Incentives, says Bruce MacEwen: http://bit.ly/cfYLXo about 12 hours ago from web
- Slight correction: Freshfields relocates its headquarters *within* New York: http://bit.ly/bpn20d :-) Mea culpa! about 12 hours ago from web
- Good piece on liberalization prospects in India's legal market: http://bit.ly/8ZGAjn Upshot: don't hold your breath. about 17 hours ago from web
- RT @stevematthews Lawyer Profiles: Dropping the Middle Initials http://bit.ly/aqz34X about 19 hours ago from TweetMeme

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Publications & Podcasts
Publications
- "Stop the press: news releases and rote communication,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, August 24, 2010
- "Law school and the risk of irrelevance,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, August 20, 2010
- "Letting the clients decide,"
  Slaw, August 19, 2010
- "Talk to me: putting an end to canned conversations,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, August 13, 2010
- "Associate compensation meets the merit system,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, August 6, 2010
- "Rethinking the case law update,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, July 27, 2010
- "The 21st-century law firm,"
  CBA PracticeLink, August 2010
- "Blogging for law firms,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, June 23, 2010
- "Managing your online brand and reputation takes work,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, June 21, 2010
- "LinkedIn for law firms,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, May 3, 2010
- "Twitter for law firms,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, April 6, 2010
- "How to be an effective client,"
  Construction Law Musings, April 2, 2010
- "Here comes the LPO tsunami,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, April 2010
- "Facebook for law firms,"
  Stem Law Firm Web Strategy Blog, March 29, 2010
- "What to do when a reporter calls,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, March 2010
- "Legal recruitment in 2010,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, February 2010
- "Will 2010 be the year of the fixed fee?,"
  The Lawyers Weekly, January 2010
- "Making the most of Twitter,"
  TRIAL Magazine, American Association of Justice, January 2010
- "Metamorphosis: Five forces transforming the legal services marketplace,"
  ABA Law Practice Magazine, November/Dcember 2009
- "We don't run this show anymore,"
  ABA Journal Legal Rebels Project, October 2009
- "This is not the end of lawyers, but...."
  Canadian Forum for Civil Justice News & Views, Spring 2009 (PDF)
- "Legal OnRamp: Beyond collaboration,"
  Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and Law 2.0, May 2009 (PDF)
- Signs of innovative life in the practice of law: rethinking associates,"
  ABA Law Practice magazine, April/May 2009
- "Signs of innovative life in the practice of law: blog yourself,"
  ABA Law Practice magazine, April/May 2009
- "Your invisible professionals,"
  Texas Bar Journal, November 2008 (PDF)
- "The collaborative future,"
  National magazine, June 2008 (PDF)
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