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,
Legal Evolution
Facts and Commentary on a Changing Legal Industry
Legal Evolution, published by Legal Evolution PBC, focuses on the evolving legal services market and the challenges law firms face in adapting to change. The blog covers topics such as law firm leadership, legal technology including artificial intelligence, legal innovation, talent management, and the impact of private equity investment in law firms. It also addresses broader issues like economic and political influences on the legal industry, data protection in legal tech, and cross-functional collaboration within legal organizations. The content includes surveys of law firm leaders, case studies, book reviews, and analysis of market trends shaping the future of legal practice.
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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…