The first time I heard “smooth seas make poor sailors” was from Fred Bartlit, one of the founding partners of Bartlit Beck. I thought Fred was providing a guidance on how to become a great trial…
Last Friday, David Cambria, the Godfather of legal operations, left his secure post at ADM (#46 on the Fortune 500) to become Global Director of Legal Operations at Baker McKenzie. To be clear, Cambria’s…
Conference season is in full swing, and legal professionals of varying titles are convening in cities all over the world. Some…
By any objective standards, equity partners working in AmLaw 200 firms are rich. Even firms at the lower end of the profitability scale are filled with 1-percenters ($481,000+ per year). So why, then, do…
The core insight embedded in Rogers Diffusion Curve is that the adoption of new ideas occurs in a specific…
Why is the legal industry so slow to change? This question gets asked all the time – particularly during conference season – but it gets more than its fair share of airtime year-round. It is…
For Memorial Day 2018, we are fortunate to have Holiday-quality content. It is with great enthusiasm that I introduce Jae Um, our newest contributor. From 2012 to 2017, Jae worked at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, rotating through a variety of roles in pricing, branding, client service, and business development before getting promoted to Director…
Above is a slide deck of Legal Evolution Year 1 graphics, including (in the notes section) date, title, URL, and a short description of each graphic.…
When lawyers come together to discuss the future — in law firms, law schools, bar associations, etc — the conversation inevitably turns to clients. Although this is a wonderful and redeeming impulse, it almost always results in confusing and unsatisfying dialogue that goes nowhere. Why does this happen? Because lawyers focus on their detailed knowledge…
Several years ago, a good friend threw me to the lions, though that was not his intent.
My friend, who works in legaltech, asked me to show up at the headquarters of a Fortune 100 company to present some prototypes I had developed…
Legal education is in the early stages of remodelling and renovation. Thus, we are living through a period of messiness. Evidence of this is a virtual Symposium at PrawfsBlawg, a forum of law professors for law professors. The symposium is called “The Futures of Legal Education.” The organizer is Dan Rodriguez,…