Attorney Productivity: How Outsourcing Can Help You Stay On Top Of Your Practice
Whether you’re a solo practitioner or working in an office with two or three attorneys, there’s simply no way you can do everything....
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
If you -- or your firm -- has been making a living doing routine legal work that could be performed just as easily (and far less expensively) elsewhere in the world, then be afraid. Be very afraid.
The Next Chapter In Legal Tech Innovation: Introducing Protégé™
Meet LexisNexis Protégé™, the new AI assistant that leverages personalization choices controlled by the user or their organization to optimize the individual’s AI experience.
As Firms Relocate Their Operations Hubs, Will There Be Layoffs?
Congratulations to the partners at Latham and Littler for finding a new way to pad their pockets, and condolences to the support staff who are being forced to choose between their locations and their livelihoods.
8 Mistakes Your Law Firm Might Be Making
If you're doing any of these things, you're doing it wrong.
Law Firms And The No-Longer ‘New’ Normal: Insights On 7 Key Subjects
The fate of the billable hour, how small firms can compete with large ones, the evil of profits per partner, and more.
alt.legal: Stop What You’re Doing!
There's a revolution happening in the practice of law -- and you should join it.
Why Better Financial Acumen is the Key to Law Firm Success in 2025
From training to technology, uncover the essential steps to futureproof your law firm in a competitive market.
Another Law Firm Jumps On The ‘Administrative Hub’ Bandwagon
Which major law firm is consolidating its back-office operations, in which state?
That’s Why We Call it ‘Work’
Dean Frank Wu tackles this question: What legal specialties offer jobs that are sexy, new, and numerous?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: The Upside Of Outsourcing?
Which top-tier law firm is conducting staff layoffs due to outsourcing -- and could this be a good thing in the end, for both the firm and the employees?
Is This ‘Attorney’ Job Heading Offshore?
Examining the persistent threat that contract attorney jobs will move overseas.
How Lexis’ CounselLink+ Reimagines The Redline
Contracts are now integrated into an end-to-end system, and efficiencies abound.
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Heads Continue To Roll In Biglaw
Yet another large law firm is making significant cuts. Which one is it this time?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: It’s Not Just Legal Secretaries
If you thought that working in "tech" would protect you from being laid off, think again.
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Magic Circle Firm Makes Lawyers and Staff Disappear
Staffers and lawyers are heading out the door, in the wake of a management change.
Morning Docket: 04.02.13
* It looks like it’s time for yet another rousing game of Biglaw musical chairs. This time, 11 of Bingham McCutchen’s securities enforcement partners are hightailing it over to Sidley Austin en masse. [DealBook / New York Times] * This week in on-shore outsourcing: there may be a job waiting for you at Kaye Scholer’s new operations center (so new we bet you didn’t know about it), so hurry up and apply, because the interviews are soon. [Tallahassee Democrat] * “We’re trained in the law and persuasion, not firearms.” But maybe you should be? After the targeted killing of attorneys in Texas, prosecutors are now on high alert. [New York Times] * When looking at the current law school model, Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog urges law deans to take advice from Jimmy McMillan because “law school tuition is simply too damn high.” [Businessweek] * Change our admissions practices amid the worst legal economy we’ve seen in decades? “Ain’t nobody got time for that,” scoffed Sarah Zearfoss, director of admissions at Michigan Law. [AnnArbor.com] * Drexel Law will accept applications for its two-year law degree program in May 2014. The higher-ups at the ABA are scheduled to laugh their asses off on or about the same date. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * “[F]or James Eagan Holmes, justice is death.” In a move that shocked absolutely no one, the prosecution in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater massacre case is seeking the death penalty. [CNN]
Quote of the Day: And Then They Came for the Partners
Think that life for Biglaw partners is a bowl of cherries? Think again.