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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 +Law Firm Management, 1984–2004
One of the most promising and optimistic pieces I've read in awhile comes courtesy of John Smock, co-founder of Smock Sterling Strategic Management Consultants outside Chicago. Essentially a look-back at his twenty years of experience being a strategic...
The Market’s Competitive. Which Market?
"Law firms are being forced to run themselves along more 'corporate' lines than ever before," reports the FT, summarizing a PwC report on the top 50 UK firms during 2004. This new "strategic approach" may represent a departure from how things...
One-Stop Data Dump
One-stop data shopping about the size and composition of the legal services industry? It's here on one handy page put together by "Envision Agency," a new name to me, which describes itself as a "full service marketing agency specializing in the...
Blogging = Changing the System?
Ernie Svenson, one of the "Savvy Blawgers" and host of Ernie the Attorney, was just interviewed on JD Bliss about how he came to be a blogger, and among other points was this exchange: JDB: Has blogging been important to you as a means to address...
Collaborate Or Die
Building a genuinely trusting, collaborative, integrated culture—where one does not exist—is among the tallest of orders that a firm can face. Since control over clients is such a key source of power, client-hogging and the individualistic behavior...