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Whither Agentic AI and Law Firms?: My Interview with Sidebar
A little while ago I was interviewed by Niraj Chhabra of Sidebar Advisors. He publishes a podcast and here’s a link to my conversation with him. He also shared alternative platforms where you can find our conversation in case you are more comfortable with one of... read more +Whither Agentic AI and Law Firms?: My Interview with Sidebar
A little while ago I was interviewed by Niraj Chhabra of Sidebar Advisors. He publishes a podcast and here’s a link to my conversation with him. He also shared alternative platforms where you can find our conversation in case you are more comfortable with one of...
The Maroons & the Grays: An Update
Back in 2019 we published a three-part series introducing and fleshing out our model of the competitive market segmentation of law firms. We posited that the two primary segments of BigLaw are the “maroons,” go-to firms for bet-the-company matters garnering...
Are You Smarter (at AI) Than Your Clients?
About a month ago, Steven Croley, Chief Policy Officer and GC at Ford Motor--who, full disclosure, I do not know--published a column on Bloomberg Law opening with the commonplace observation that AI is disrupting the legal services market for large public companies...
Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Although "birth certificates" were far in the future in 1723, today is by consensus deemed to be Adam Smith's birthday, in 1723, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Today he would be 303.
And Now a Word From Your Editor: Blather
You should not be surprised to learn that in my travels across the legal, business, and strategic commentariat, I form opinions--some probably too quickly or too definitively--about the quality of what I'm reading. As an exercise that began as casual amusement I began...