I’m thrilled to be headed back to New York City next week for the Law Firm Leadership and Economic Forum where David Brown, editor in Chief of The National Law Journal will be presenting some of the key findings from the ALM Survey of Law Firm Economics. You can follow my live tweets at the…
I keep a close eye on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the end out for the tie that binds. Because your mine, I walk the line. -Johnny Cash There were two fascinating articles from the past week that made me stop in my tracks. The…
(Click here for the 2011 Blogs of the Amlaw 100) Two weeks ago I was looking online and asking around for a list of the law blogs of the AmLaw 100. The only one I could find was this incomplete list from January of 2010- Social Media Use at the AmLaw 100 That chart is…
You can’t have someone else do your push-ups for you. For the last couple hundred years Lawyers have been dumping off as much of their work as possible to their underlings. Scriveners did the copying, secretaries did the typing, paralegals did the paperwork and now 3rd party legal service providers can even handle all the…
In a major blow to entrenched legal publishers Lexis Nexis and Thompson Reuters, in July Linkedin chose to partner with JD Supra to supply content for Legal Updates. In one sense this partnership is like combining peanut butter and chocolate as Jayne Navarre describes, but in another sense, it is kind of like Coca-Cola deciding…
Every once in a while a blog post drops that stirs up the hornets nest. After more than 100 comments in a few days, the ABA Journal online article entitled, “Why Lawyers Should Work No More than 40 Hours a Week” has really stirred up some strong sentiment. The article laid out a simple premise…
The Parable of the Talents is a simple one. The Master who must go away for a while entrusts three servants with large amounts of money or “talents,” as they were called in oldentimes. They must take care of this money while he is gone. To one servant he gives 5 talents, to another he…