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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 +CRM vs. “Knowledge is Power”
Client relationship management (CRM) systems have achieved ubiquity in F1000 firms, but their usefulness, and even their feasibility, in law firms has been, shall we say, less certain. [Jargon time-out: "CRM" systems are designed to capture, in...
Lockstep: An Endangered Species?
"The few, the proud, the Marines?" I would make that, "The few, the proud, the lockstep-compensation firms." I've opined before that partnership compensation at many firms is in disequilibrium: While lockstep has its merits in...
Lawyers, Economists, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Stories that provide real-world confirmation of our core beliefs are all but irresistible—even if fundamentally intellectually unchallenging. Two of my core beliefs about analyzing policies at the intersection of law and economics are: a "static"...
The CIO: Getting a Seat at the Table
Is the role of a CIO "strategic?" According to the CIO of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, not a chance if "the trains aren't running on time," for starters. Beyond that, what does it take for a CIO to truly gain credibility as more than a...
Site Rendering Problems in Internet Explorer Fixed
To my extreme and heartfelt dismay, I discovered about 24 hours ago that this site wasn't rendering the way I intended it to in Internet Explorer (my browser of choice is Netscape, second choice Mozilla Firefox). Love Microsoft or loathe them (answer B for...