With competition for clients fierce, and enhanced by the expressed the desire of many corporate clients to keep as much work as possible in-house, a focus on quality control is a must for firms at every level of the legal profession.
Many law firms are basically incapable of true quality control. Here's why, according to in-house counsel columnist Mark Herrmann.
And how to navigate them in 2026.
Reputations aren’t created or bought, they are earned...
Suppose your firm has one incompetent partner, and our joint has the misfortune to be working with that person. This guy consistently misses important issues. He sends us briefs that read (as did one draft I recently received): “In response to ALR’s motion to dismiss the OC, [plaintiff] added an allegation in the FAC that […]