Law Firm Management

Stephen Kaplan* For decades, legal departments of most corporations suffered from an “us” vs. “them” mentality with the business. In-house practitioners have since come around, understanding their role in the overall corporate scheme and learning the importance of each executive function. But many of us still fail to evaluate ourselves as other departments do.Like any

We have reported frequently here about the challenges facing law firms, with mergers, technology changes, billing practices and more.But now, yet another study has come out to show that law firms face irrelevance and face obsolescence, just like some redundant auto industry relic.The study, from Georgetown University Law Center says the industry is failing to

As with any other organization, law firms also face disasters but the way in which they handle them requires similar skills and preparation to any other organization in crisis.A recent conference at the Legal Marketing Association had an address from Nancy G Newman, who was the national director of marketing and business development at Dreier LLP,

Riverview Law is a new-age, revolutionary law firm developing . . well, robots, actually.The innovative firm has spent 18 months investigating an automated, in-house team of virtual assistants that will make fast and (hopefully) accurate decisions.  Dubbed “Kim” (which stands for knowledge, intelligence and meaning), the virtual assistants combine their robotic powers with data analysis