Innovators and early adopters come together to discuss human capital in the emerging one-to-many legal economy — a great opportunity for law students and career service professionals.
In Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind predicts the emergence of several new jobs for lawyers, including the legal knowledge engineer, the legal technologist, the legal hybrid, the legal
This essay is a career study of Robert Meltzer, a highly successful legaltech entrepreneur who is not famous or well-known in legaltech circles, primarily because his success
Elevate recently acquired five companies in less than three months. I’ve been asked: why those companies in particular, and why so many in such a short space of time? To answer those questions, I should first answer the deeper question of what is
The most valuable contribution a legal entrepreneur can make to the legal industry is to share founder stories, especially mistakes and lessons learned. Another value-add is to publicly state, “this is our strategy,” so the entire market can learn what works and what doesn’t. On today’s Legal Evolution, Liam Brown, the Founder and Executive Chairman
The above 2×2 matrix provides a window on the war for associate-level law firm talent in the London-UK market. The firms in the top-right quadrant are winning. This is true for two reasons. First, they’re paying salaries at or near the top of
As editor of Legal Evolution, I am pleased to announce that Evan Parker is joining Legal Evolution as a regular contributor.
Many readers likely remember Evan’s guest post from the fall, where he presented compelling data showing that, controlling for a wide range of factors, law firms with a higher percentage of diverse attorneys are significantly more profitable. See Parker, “Missing in Action: Data-Driven Approaches to Improve Diversity (074),” Legal Evolution, Nov. 25, 2018 (+$180K per partner). In Post 086, Evan takes on the task of measuring law firm culture in the London-UK market, showing how data from Legal Cheek’s Insider Scorecard can be used to create and guide a strategy for associate-level talent.
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Earlier this month I participated in the Inspire.legal conference in New York City. Because Inspire.legal was sufficiently different than any other legal industry event I have attended, I began ruminating on the question “why?”
The matrix above, which
In his 2006 novel, Utterly Monkey, the lawyer-turned-writer Nick Laird tells the story of Danny Williams, a young man from Ireland who overcomes his working class roots to land a job at a Magic Circle law firm. Although
— Prof. Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School
I came to law from engineering. My previous training and trade create an outsider’s inside perspective on how we solve problems with the practice of
