Beyond Biglaw: What’s A Case Worth?
It's critical for law firms, especially small law firms, to evaluate at the outset the potential value of a case.
Beyond Biglaw: The Changing Face Of Customer Service
The best customer service lets customers feel empowered, with some control over the process.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Beyond Biglaw: Ivanka’s Trumptastic Trademarks
What lessons can we learn from Ivanka Trump's trademark strategy?
Beyond Biglaw: How Fidgety IP Lawyers View Fads
A look at the intellectual-property questions raised by a hot new trend.
Beyond Biglaw: Binders And The Retail Customer
It's tax time. What can lawyers learn from accountants about business development and client service?
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Associate Lessons From ‘Goliath’
As an associate, you are operating in an environment where information is a limited resource.
How Checkbox’s ‘Legal Front Door’ Can Transform Your Workflow
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Different Students… Same Advice?
What would you say to a young person considering law school today?
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Bridgewater Lessons For Small Law Firms
Point one: there is room for a founder-driven, idiosyncratic culture in a service business.
Beyond Biglaw: Taste Your Merchandise
There is no guarantee that you will like the taste of your own merchandise, but that doesn’t absolve you from taking one.
Beyond Biglaw: Slow Down for Lasting Success
What can lawyers learn from the protagonist of Showtime's Billions, Bobby Axelrod, and NBA superstar James Harden?
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
Beyond Biglaw: Job Security, ‘Hidden Figures’ Style
Make yourself indispensable.
Beyond Biglaw: A Refugee From Aleppo, And America’s Beauty
Personal reflections from columnist Gaston Kroub on the tumultuous times in which we live.
Beyond Biglaw: 4 Lessons From Malcolm Butler
Some underdogs can develop into alpha dogs, according to boutique-firm columnist Gaston Kroub.
Beyond Biglaw: Running The Numbers
A big difference between Biglaw and boutiques: the level of personal involvement by partners in financial matters.
Beyond Biglaw: Leaving The Heartland?
A pending Supreme Court case could have significant implications for patent litigation.