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November 23rd, 2008 |
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In a year when budgetary belt-tightening is forcing corporate planners to scale back on holiday parties, one Texas law firm is letting its belt out a few notches. In a state known for doing things big, the Houston-based Lanier Law[...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Here's an interesting program: Boston-based law firm, Sherin and Lodgen will discount legal fees for clients who go green. The firm's “Going Green? Take Fifteen” program, which begins in 2009, will provide 15 percent off legal fees for green projects.[...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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In a post last week entitled "Best 'Elevator Pitch' Ever...?" legal marketer Larry Bodine related the elevator pitch of a lawyer he described as "the silver-haired senior-most litigator" at a law firm in Joliet, Ill. The lawyer's pitch involved a[...]
From an in-house counsel's perspective, what's not to like about large law firms? They're chock full of talent, boast dozens of practice groups that allow for one-stop shopping and bring a respected brand name that allows corporate clients to show[...]
When you think of top law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, adjectives like "white shoe," "blue chip" or "elite" come to mind. What you may not realize, however, is that Joe Flom, Skadden's first associate and now name[...]
Last week, my colleague, Bob Ambrogi posted on Larry Bodine's criticism of lawyer directories as a waste of money at his Law Marketing Blog. Well, if directories don't work, what does? The results of a recent survey by law firm[...]
Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology directs our attention to the annual Innovative Lawyers edition from London's Financial Times. This collection of articles highlights law firm innovation (no, it is not an oxymoron) in such areas as billing and fees,[...]
A recent study by Kerma Partners, in conjunction with Redwood Analytics, a property of LexisNexis, shows that grades and school rank aren't the best predictors of lawyer success at their firms. (H/T Jeff Yates, Voir Dire). The Kerma study was[...]
A military judge ruled that five CIA-held detainees representing themselves pro se are entitled to use of a laptop with at least 12 hours of battery power to review documents produced in their case, but not to other 21st century[...]
Via Ron Friedmann at Prism Legal, I learned that the 2008 Am Law Tech Survey is out, with a detailed summary at Law Firm Inc. This year, the study revealed that most firm IT directors are grappling with questions like:[...]
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September 23rd, 2008 |
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A new study released by Océ Business Services finds that 39 percent of in-house attorneys and 57 percent of law firm attorneys believe that their companies and clients are not prepared to comply with discovery requests under the 2006 version[...]
Yesterday, BoomTown took a rather strong stand against Google and its recent aggressive efforts to defend its outsourcing deal to sell some of Yahoo's search advertising. Given the pair have a more than 80 percent combined market share in the search business, I and many others-advertisers, publishers and state and [...]
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September 18th, 2008 |
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For Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology, it is the law firm caste system. For Jordon Furlong at Law21, it is a missed recruitment opportunity. What both are talking about is the propensity of lawyers to view the world as[...]
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September 17th, 2008 |
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So what do you get when you cross Snow White with a law firm? Either a fairy tale firm where the all lawyers live happily ever after, or more realistically, a concept for a new law-themed television show that dwarfs[...]
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September 16th, 2008 |
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The law firm Ropes & Gray yesterday announced that it would be taking a more "enlightened approach" to helping its associates balance their work and family lives. The Boston-based firm launched a program it calls Impact, "designed to accommodate the[...]
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September 16th, 2008 |
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Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site[...]
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September 15th, 2008 |
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When is the last time that you interviewed for a position with a law firm and the hiring attorney grilled you on the finer points of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 or asked you to draft a short memo[...]
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September 3rd, 2008 |
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With summer over, law students return to school and new grads embark on their first legal job, many as law firm associates. And in honor of that first job, the theme of this month's issue of Complete Lawyer is "The[...]
"If associates get all the benefits of training at my law firm in the first three years, and can't really add much value anyway, why don't they pay us?" That's the question that Dan Hull asks in this provocative post[...]
Law firm technology wonks are gathered this week in Grapevine, Texas, for the 31st annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, and thanks to some of the bloggers in attendance there, we are all able to hear about it[...]
We learned this week that Skadden was named one of the 50 Best Law Firms for Women by Working Mother because of its flexible Return From Maternity program. According to New York partner Maura Barry Grinalds, Skadden is tops for its standard maternity-related policies and because of its willingness to [...]
