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10 mistakes law firms make in managing their client relationships…
The importance of enhanced client focus continues to ratchet up. With good reason. In the “battle for market share” your current clients are both more valuable and vulnerable than before..
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Say "Clementi Commission" on this side of the Atlantic and draw blank stares; say it on the other side and it is safe to say you will launch an immediate fray. The Commission has proposed, and the government has pledged to support, legislation that will...
25 Years of Legal Technology
The estimable Ron Friedman, who's been covering legal technology since 1989, has done a nice recap of the past 25 years of legal technology for The American Lawyer. Two messages here: No matter how much you may bitch and moan at technology today, it's useful to...
Genesis I:1, or How This Blog Came to Be
In case you don't see Law Technology News regularly, their year-end issue features, at pg. 24 in the "real" issue, my article on "How I Came to (Love) Blogging," thanks to the capable and gentle stewardship of that editorial ball of energy,...
Billable Rates Rise Again. So What?
Half full or half empty? That's my somewhat non-plussed reaction to the National Law Journal's release of its annual hourly billing rates update. Of the 110 firms responding to the questionaire, 88 reported increases in partners' billing rates and 81...
Are We “Corporate” Yet?
Just how "corporate" is the management model at sophisticated firms? While there may be superficial similarities of structure in an increasing number of firms, Legal Week posits that if lawyers simply mimic a corporate form of management without...