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Sure You’re Smart, But Do You Think? (There is a difference)
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. LLC. Our industry is awash with really smart people. You kinda have to be to get into and through a top law school. Then, why is there such a paucity of creative thinking in Law Land? After... read more +“Savvy Blawgers” Query #3: Future Legal Industry Structure
"Savvy Blawger" Query #3 is now out for the assembled to mull over with, of course, their cogent responses reported back to you a few weeks hence. The question for this go-round is: "What will the industry structure of the (US-based) legal profession...
Professional Development Is Not Just for Junior Associates
Are lawyers suffering "arrested development," as the cheeky title of a dead-serious article has it at Legal Week? Professional development is one of the pantheon of gods whose worship is most often honored in the breach, or else by procrustean...
Diversity Quotas & Signal-to-Noise Ratios
The New York Law Journal is reporting that, under the auspices of the New York County Lawyers Association, "more than 60" law firms have agreed to a written pact to report to their corporate clients the makeup of legal teams by "race, gender, ethnicity,...
Models for IT Governance
My article in the May 2005 print edition of Law Technology News is now up. It's essentially a recap of my coverage of the keynote address where I served as "blogger-in-residence" at the recent CIO/CTO Conference, co-sponsored by ALM and Harvard Business...
“Anecdotes Are Not Data”
If "three anecdotes constitute a trend," as journalists say, then I'm here to report an optimistic development. First, as my friend Denise Howell reports, her firm, Reed Smith, announced yesterday the formal launch of...