Many lawyers are daunted by the prospect of data, process, and technology. Yet, retooling might not be that hard.
Below is a list of knowledge, skills, and technologies learned this summer by three of my 1L Indiana Law students. The catalyst was a 3½-week program at the University of Colorado Law School in May combined
As a law professor, I worry about my students’ job prospects. One way to manage this worry is to study clients and to work backwards from their needs. Opportunities tend to find lawyers who follow this discipline.
Yet, making generalizations on law clients in the year 2017 is surprisingly difficult. This point was recently driven
As the legal market remains flat for law firms, the focus naturally turns to clients. How they think. What they care about. How they spend their budgets. Etc. Yet, to the extent that clients vary in significant ways, the generalizations aren’t particularly helpful.
There are many ways to categorize clients, but by my lights the most useful is size and organizational structure of the in-house legal department. As shown in diagram above, this metric varies from zero for individuals (Type 1) and business owners (Type 2), to the equivalent of a specialized law firm embedded inside a large corporation (Types 5 and 6).
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