As pressure on pricing continues, Big Law firms are buying (or building) analytics technology and hiring pricing specialists ' people who use market data, internal firm data and economics/pricing experience to ensure that firms are smart about bidding on work.
What do legal departments want from their law firms? The General Counsel of 35 global corporations. give their candid and outspoken responses.
The question of how to manage paper records ' both onsite and off ' is probably the greatest hurdle faced by many of law firms. For most areas of back-office operations not running optimally, firms can outsource or hire a new manager and typically solve the problem. This is not the case for paper records.
LinkedIn has gained popularity as the social media tool for professional networking, and there are good reasons:. Here is what you need to know.
Less than half of AmLaw 200 firms have mobile websites, but that may change soon. In January, Google started sending messages to web operators to "fix mobile usability issues."
Some things appear to be so simple that we assume (dangerously) that everyone "gets it." But a significant number of lawyers either have no system ' formal or otherwise ' for getting and staying in touch with key people, or do a dismal job of staying connected.
Chances are you don't need to be convinced of the merits of learning to program or, in the parlance of today's startup culture, learning "to code." You already understand not only the professional opportunities it opens but also how it empowers you to solve your own problems. As software disrupts industry after industry, the winners will be either those writing the code or those who understand enough about coding to organize others to do it.
Last year the readerI turned 60, and left the fine law firm that had been his home for 33 years, joining another fine firm in July. Here's how he did it.
Today's law firms face unprecedented challenges in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace. Corporate clients, under intense pressure to cut costs and increase efficiency within their own organizations, are no longer willing to simply pay an hourly rate for services rendered in good faith. They are unapologetic in demanding increased accountability and demonstrable value from the legal teams who represent them.
As we all know, setting and achieving goals in a professional services environment can be challenging due to the differences in marketing certain practice groups and in how one practice group may perceive success compared with another. Here's how to make it work.
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