It’s an age-old saying: money can’t buy everything. The most common examples include happiness and love. It’s time to add “legal…
Legal Evolution is going long on long-form content. This decision is reflected in our move to a Sunday publication schedule, which began in early June.
This editor’s note is made timely by Jae Um’s three-part series, Legal Innovation Woes (062-064). It is not accurate to describe this work as a blog post. It is strategic analysis on the legal industry of a depth and quality that is not available anywhere else on the Internet. Jae is writing not to express her opinion but to solve a very difficult set of industry-level problems. And that takes word count.
That pretty much covers it. #SundayReading #LongFormContent. Thank you for your readership.…
Below are four charts that provide context to NALP’s recently released Class of 2017 data. But first, here are some key highlights from NALP’s press release and Selected Findings:
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In 1977, a 27-year old Yale Law graduate named Joel Hyatt resigned his position at the prestigious New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to return to his hometown of Cleveland and open a storefront legal clinic that catered to…
The State Bar of California recently commissioned me to write a landscape report on the changing legal market. That report is now posted on the State Bar website. On Friday, I gave a presentation based on the report to the Board of Trustees (webcast here).
The State Bar of California recently underwent a…
The framework above was developed to solve very difficult problems related to organizational change, particularly those now facing the legal field. I realize the framework looks laughably simple. That said, it’s harder to apply than…
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…