The billable hour is not the immediate cause of all that ails the legal industry. Freedom from the tyranny of the billable hour would be a fine start. But there…
Scott Stratten, president of UnMarketing, has an interesting analogy for lawyer marketing in an increasingly competitive marketplace: One of his earliest jobs was serving as a sales training manager…
Journalists reporting worldwide about offshore wealth of prominent people got millions of confidential documents from Panama-based Mossack Fonseca as a result of an attack by hackers, not an insider data…
Moana Weir started work on Jan. 29 as in-house legal chief and company secretary for Slater & Gordon, the Australia-based personal injury Goliath that made history by becoming the world’s…
During the course of reporting this story, the name Kodak kept coming up as a symbol of where the legal industry could be headed if it continues to resist technology.…
For more than 35 years, Hollywood producer Brian Grazer has tracked down people who interest him and asked them to sit down with him for "curiosity conversations." He claims that…
Ready for a stand-up desk? How about a conference room on wheels? These and many other innovations are either on tap or already here as law firms, spurred by a…
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It already seems as if everyone and their dog has a blog. There's even a show on Disney about a dog with a blog—it's called, surprisingly, Dog with a Blog. Apr 1, 2016 2:10 AM CDT
For many years, one lawyer and his or her secretary made a team. Over the years, one administrative assistant working for several or even many lawyers has become the norm,…
Initially rejecting an unusual request by a suburban Chicago prosecutor, an Illinois judge has declined to release a man who was convicted of a 1957 child-murder decades after the crime…
Corporate clients are displeased with their law firms. And the displeasure is not confined to opinion surveys. A decades-long decline (PDF) in realizations has been paired with flattening…