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How High the Sky?

We’re in the thick of BigLaw’s year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results.  The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective–setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero... read more +

Build Back Better: The Macro View

by | Oct 12, 2020 | 1 Comment

In our “Build Back Better” series discussing how law firms, and the rest of the legal services industry, may [want to] change once humanity emerges from this surreal Coronatide interregnum, we’ve focused on the microeconomics of the industry, if you will:  The office...

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Too Many “NewLaw” Players?

by | Oct 7, 2020 | 0 Comments

No, there are not "too many" NewLaw companies.  But there are undoubtedly a lot.  This map of the market, courtesy of Catalyst, is three years old and you know the ecosystem has only gotten bigger since then:     We are in the Cambrian Explosion of NewLaw...

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What is Strategic Client Management? And Why Should You Care?

by | Oct 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Note: This article was recently sent to our subscriber list.  (See what you're missing??) Now that we are squarely in an era of new possibilities and are thoroughly inoculated to the notion that,...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

by | Sep 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

I met RBG only once, but the impact has lasted ever since. In third year of law school, I participated in Moot Court.  Our hypothetical case (before the “US Supreme Court”) pitted a Tennessee school board with an all-male “academic” track against a 17-year-old girl. ...

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