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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... read more +What Makes You Think You’re Exceptional?
It's not your imagination: Mega-mergers in corporate-land are on the upswing. According to The Wall Street Journal, the last five months have seen more than a dozen deals valued at more than $10-billion. And the result is that "investors...
Recruiting Summer Associates: Model Your Campaign After “The Apprentice”?
What's your model for hiring summer associates? Are you satisfied with it? If not, how about trying this instead: Model a challenge for them on the hit reality TV show "The Apprentice;" Schedule call-backs on the spot; Send "very...
The Long-Running Soap Opera Must End
"From pace-setter to basket case in the United States?" Shall we all guess what firm got stuck with that donkey-tail over at law.com? Alas, of course, it was Clifford-Chance. The questions du jour are (1) what went wrong? (not so we can...
The JD/MBA: Worth It? To You? To Your Firm?
The Indiana Unversity School of Law—Bloomington is in the process of streamlining its JD/MBA program with the Kelley School of Business. The overall goal is to encourage more students—whether they "start" on the law-school side or the...
Moore’s Law vs. Flesh & Blood
Most of the ink on the topic of outsourcing by law firms has been understandably devoted to back-office functions such as HR and tech support desks. I view the trend to house these functions elsewhere than in, say, midtown Manhattan, as eminently sensible and...