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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Learning about law firms, Part III: Innovation at “Everybody Else” firms (335)
“Firms outside the Premier and Championship leagues are playing a different sport.” Thus, the winning strategies are different.
Jae Um, in her bracketing exercise for The American Lawyer magazine, arrays the 2022 AmLaw 100 based on the structure of…
Agile leadership: navigating the double bind (334)
The high highs and low lows of legal regulatory reform (333)
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)
Higher profits come at a cost. Be careful what you wish for.
As a multiple-decade veteran of Big Law, I vividly remember the…