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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +KM & Marketing: The Great Synthesis
Marketing and Knowledge Management Are Joined at the Hip, is the theme today. How so? Isn't marketing fundamentally outward-directed and KM fundamentally inner-directed? Not in my view. Let's start with the basics: Law firms' product is...
The Deal Market is Back! But Hey, What About the Rest of Us?
The American Lawyer's cover story this month is about how the corporate/transactional deal market "is back," five years after it went away. Equity offerings nearly tripled in value in 2004 (to $43-billion, famously including Google) and an estimated...
Could There Be an AmLaw 100 Enron?
A new blog, Legal Ethics + Legal Technology, put together by Ben Cowgill, has invited guest authors, including me, to post their thoughts this week, on issues related to professional ethics. While I have often said that "Adam Smith, Esq." is all about...
Savvy Blawgers’ Query #2: The Future of The Billable Hour
This Just In: Results of "Savvy Blawgers" Query #2 The second query to this august group concerned the future of the billable hour. My original email to the Savvy Blawgers reads in pertinent part: You should also know that I'm going to be a...
Blogging the CIO/CTO and Practice Group Management Forums
First: Thanks to my (old) good friends at American Lawyer Media (particularly the always entertaining Monica Bay, expert on all things related to legal technology), I'll be blogger-in-residence at the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer Forum here...