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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
Law21 Twitter Updates- RT @Riskin Bento… would anyone who is familiar with Bento who is willing to speak with me for 5 mins please ping me - thx :-) 07:08:37 PM March 08, 2010 from web
- New blog post at Stem Legal: Creating a Facebook fan club: http://bit.ly/bK7qkL 05:37:48 PM March 08, 2010 from web
- Compete with alternative legal service providers through the marketplace, not UPL claims: http://bit.ly/94kFq9 (Carolyn Elefant) 02:24:16 PM March 05, 2010 from web
- 10 tips for unbundling legal services: http://bit.ly/d4IFQ0 01:51:51 PM March 05, 2010 from web
- Don't hide your lamp under a bushel: lawyer advertising in church bulletins: http://bit.ly/cKPld8 01:50:16 PM March 05, 2010 from web
Category Archives: Small Centers
Virtually legal
I’ve just assigned a feature article for the April/May 2008 issue of National that aims to explore the future of the sole practitioner. As I noted in a previous post, I’m worried about the near-term prospects for solos, especially in smaller centers, but I’m bullish on their chances down the road, so long as they’re [...]
Also posted in Innovation, Solo & Small Firm, Technology 1 Comment
Law firm size: past, present and future
After making an offhand comment in a previous post, that only about 10% of all Canadian lawyers were in large law firms, I began to wonder if that was, you know, accurate. So I checked the statistical breakdowns available at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada website and confirmed that yes, out of 79,147 [...]
Also posted in Big Firms, Demographics, Solo & Small Firm 2 Comments
Going to town
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the numerous factors leading to the continuing contraction of the legal profession in smaller urban centers and in rural outposts. Here’s another one: competition for legal talent. Large-center practice is operating at unprecedented levels of profitability these days; even if small-center practices were still reasonably feasible, large-center [...]
Also posted in Careers, Competition, Generations Leave a comment
Law practice in the 21st century
This article was first posted at Slaw on September 29th, 2006.
Earlier this month, I visited San Francisco for the first time. I’d long been fascinated by the thought of a city built on a geological time bomb, and walking its streets was quite an experience.
Everyone knows there’ll be a massive seismic rupture underneath the city [...]
Also posted in Competition, Generations, Globalization Leave a comment
MCLE’s new look