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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 +Is the Am Law 200 even a “category?”
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, "How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200," was published in late June and here, republished by their courtesy, is our...
Build Back Better: Whither the Office? (Part 1)
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
Build Back Better Webinar: Blow Up Recruiting, Entry Level Follies Edition
We will be participants on a webinar about the inefficiencies in traditional practices in entry-level recruiting and how firms might "build back better" in that area in the new reality. In particular, we will be discussing more data-driven approaches to improve your...
Build Back Better: What Associates Need to Know
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”...
How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200
Our friends and colleagues at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute were kind enough to ask us to provide some of our thoughts on the recently released 2020 AmLaw 200. Installment #1 of 2 is now available at their site and we invite you to take a look--whether or...
