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Is the American Legal Profession a Guild?

This is one in our occasional series of excerpts from my yet-to-be-published new book, treating, among other things, the historic roots of our profession tracing back to medieval guilds. I hope you enjoy, and, more importantly, that you provide any feedback,... read more +

25 Years of Legal Technology

by | Dec 13, 2004 | 0 Comments

The estimable Ron Friedman, who's been covering legal technology since 1989, has done a nice recap of the past 25 years of legal technology for The American Lawyer.  Two messages here: No matter how much you may bitch and moan at technology today, it's useful to...

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Genesis I:1, or How This Blog Came to Be

by | Dec 12, 2004 | 0 Comments

In case you don't see Law Technology News regularly, their year-end issue features, at pg. 24 in the "real" issue, my article on "How I Came to (Love) Blogging," thanks to the capable and gentle stewardship of that editorial ball of energy,...

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Billable Rates Rise Again. So What?

by | Dec 11, 2004 | 0 Comments

Half full or half empty?   That's my somewhat non-plussed reaction to the National Law Journal's release of its annual hourly billing rates update.  Of the 110 firms responding to the questionaire, 88 reported increases in partners' billing rates and 81...

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Are We “Corporate” Yet?

by | Dec 10, 2004 | 0 Comments

Just how "corporate" is the management model at sophisticated firms?  While there may be superficial similarities of structure in an increasing number of firms, Legal Week posits that if lawyers simply mimic a corporate form of management without...

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Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up?

by | Dec 9, 2004 | 0 Comments

Adam Smith's thought (the real Adam Smith, that is) has been famously characterized by the economist George Stigler as a "stupendous palace erected upon the granite of self-interest."  I have long labeled this a "mischaracterization," and I am...

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