The jobs of being a leader within any law firm should come labeled with a clear warning: This job could seriously change you and how you behave within your firm!
Over the past two decades, I have had the privilege,
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The high highs and low lows of legal regulatory reform (333)
By Lucy Ricca & Graham Ambrose
Source: “Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change,” Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession (Sept 2022) at 18, Figure 1.
In the long run, however, it’s all about the data. Initial…
Learning about law firms, Part II: Why confederation is our default model (332)
Stable, transparent, not very complicated, reasonably profitable, and often quite collegial. It also has flaws.
As noted in Part I (330) of this “learning about law firms” series, it’s taken nearly two decades in the trenches, including many…
Out with the old, in with the … bold? (331)
Q: Is proposing an ethical duty for legal innovation worth the effort? (328)
Labor Day reflections, including some second thoughts, on the business of law (327)
Norma Rae (1979), 20th Century Fox. Photo from The Hollywood Archives, Alamy.
Higher profits come at a cost. Be careful what you wish for.
As a multiple-decade veteran of Big Law, I vividly remember the…
Fostering law student professional identity in a time of instability and strife (326)
Source: Based on Delta Model originally published in Natalie Runyon, “The ‘Delta’ Lawyer Competency Model Discovered through LegalRnD Workshop,” Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, June 14, 2018; see also Post 125 (article by founders…
Keeping the noise down in tech selection (325)
Source: “Danny Kahneman on Decision Hygiene,” Jury Analyst, July 22, 2021
Decision hygiene is to product and service selection as testing is to software development. Skip them at your peril.
Decisions about technology can…