Law Vision Group – In order to meet or exceed anticipated profits per partner in a rapidly changing legal industry, many firms still have a way to go to upgrade or simply modernize their systems and processes. So today’s post is about change. Not only accepting it and embracing it, but also (perhaps) considering change […]
Following a gender discrimination lawsuit against Sedgwicks, a female litigator has now filed suit against Chadbourne & Parke, the New York-based 300-attorney firm. Kerrie Campbell’s lawsuit, reported by the WSJ Law Blog, is filed on behalf of Chadbourne’s 26 partners since 2013, claiming they are “routinely” underpaid and that the firm “actively retaliates against female attorneys
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There is hope on the horizon for law firms in the future if they increase their marketing and business development, according to a new survey from Bloomberg Law and the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). Big Law in particular has faced some intense pressure from in house counsel, ferocious competition in some areas and soft fees.
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WickerParker Group* – The year is still new, but the refrain remains the same. Lawyers in firms are finally back at work, catching up from the protracted holiday break and now excited about the promise the new year brings. Yet I’ve already had the conversation with a client about the “attitude” busy lawyers have when
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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
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Ogletree Deakins – Larry Richard, J.D., Ph.D., is the founder of and principal consultant at LawyerBrain LLC. A former trial lawyer since trained as a psychologist, he now provides organization development consulting to large law firms using behavioral science and psychological research findings. JATHAN JANOVE: For many years, you have conducted research into the psychology
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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
Matt Thompson* – A recent survey of law firm business development and marketing professionals suggests the strategies and tactics law firms use to generate new business is changing. According to the study, law firms appear to be shaking the negative fallout of the economic downturn. Nearly 50 percent of firms report feeling upbeat about new
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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
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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
