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A.I.: Friend or foe? Webinar–You’re Invited!

Thursday May 2nd:  11:00 a.m. – 12 noon  Eastern Time (US and Canada) How is A.I. impacting BigLaw?  Bruce, Janet and the esteemed Toby Brown of DV8 Legal Strategies  will discuss the ways Gen A.I. is impacting law firm business models and what the implications are... read more +

Academic Adventures

by | Nov 8, 2004 | 0 Comments

I look forward with delight to being invited to guest-lecture at Indiana University School of Law/Bloomington in Prof. William Henderson's "The Law Firm as a Business Organization" course.  I fly out there early tomorrow morning. Full report when I...

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The Past 50 Years in a Nutshell

by | Nov 8, 2004 | 0 Comments

"The Industrialization of the Law Firm" is the ambitious, but fair, title of a piece by A. Harrison Barnes, Esq., founder of BCG Search.  His conclusion?:  "Today's law firm environment is, in a sense, now being controlled by Adam Smith's...

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Revenues vs. Margins in EDD-Land

by | Nov 6, 2004 | 0 Comments

My good friend and crack wordsmith Michael Clark of EDDix LLC is striving to break new ground in the world of publishing/distribution, by charging a pretty penny (>$2,000) for a conventional copy of his new book covering the landscape of Electronic Data Discovery,...

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Cash Management 101

by | Nov 5, 2004 | 0 Comments

Not to appear to be piling on, but here is yet another call for the introduction of merely sane and rational, everyday business management processes into law firm land. In this case, the topic is not recondite in the least:  Plain old cash management and timely...

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“Given Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow”

by | Nov 4, 2004 | 0 Comments

So said the famous Eric Raymond about quality control in open-source software. And thanks to a reader who took pity on me for my screed against IE and suggested a fix, it is now rendering correctly.  Rick (and you know who you are), guest-blogging privileges any...

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