Law Firm Management

Law Firms are Late Developers on Talent Management, Says Senior Lawyer

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / May 18, 2014

Law firms are “late developers in talent management” according to Mary Cranston, former chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and successful class action litigator and company director. Interviewed by LawFuel publisher John Bowie, Mary Cranston has established herself as an innovative pioneer in terms of diversity employment practices, starting with her role as Pillsbury […]

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Pop-Up Law Firms on Display

Featured, Law Firm Management / May 18, 2014

Pop-up shops are all the rage in some metropolitan areas, but having a pop-up law firm is quite another thing. However, a DC architecture practice, Gensler have created “the law firm of the future” as an exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference and expo in Toronto this week, showing fesatures including open

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How Big Law Firms Are Using A Swiss Technique To Keep Profits Safe

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / May 12, 2014

The American Lawyer’s annual law firm rankings show some of the biggest are using a Swiss legal partnership to keep country profits separate. All of the firms have set up “vereins”—a Swiss legal partnership that lets the law firms maintain separate national or regional profit pools under a single brand. The AmLaw rankings also

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Asking The Big Question About Law Firm Mergers: Do They Work?

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / April 15, 2014

There are more law firm mergers than ever in the US but an important – if not leading question – has arisen: Do they work? Law firm consultants Altman Weil has been tracking the legal marketplace for such matters since 2007 and 2013 saw the largest number of law mergers since they began, with a

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Global Financial Crisis Strengthens US, Says Law Chief

Featured, Law Firm Management, US Law / March 14, 2014

The position of the United States has grown stronger in the world economy since the global financial crisis, according to Clifford Chance’s retiring managing partner David Childs. Childs spoke with Forbes writer Daniel Fisher and told him that there was no need for hand wringing about the financial crisis, as money and economic power flows

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Forget Old Law Firm Models – Try These New Ones Instead

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / March 12, 2014

Changing the traditional law firm model is something that is working with great success in Australia and the United Kingdom. The United States is much slower to grapple with the issue of introducing outside investment into law firms, but new law firm models continue to arise. The story of non-lawyer investment in the United

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Sedgwick Lawyers Contribute Anti-Corruption Law Content

Law Firm Management, US Law / March 12, 2014

LawFuel.com – Sedgwick Chudleigh’s Alex Potts and Chen Foley contributed a chapter on Bermuda Anti-Corruption Regulation law in the 2014 edition of Getting the Deal Through – Anti-Corruption Regulation 2014. The guide is a database of law and regulation in 60 practice areas and more than 150 jurisdictions containing concise explanations to the most important legal and

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Taking Off for Lawyers: The Drone Law Group

Featured, Law Firm Management, US Law / March 10, 2014

It had to happen. With the increased commercial use of drones the lawyers are sitting up and wondering what the noise above is all about. Drones are being used increasingly for everything from surveying crops to photographing houses for estate agents – quite apart from efforts to destroy terrorists in the remotest parts of the

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Could Dewey & LeBoeuf Be the Enron of the Legal World?

Law Firm Management, Law Firms / March 9, 2014

Writing incriminating material in emails was something that broke the cardinal rule for many lawyers – don’t put anything incriminating in emails – which could serve to lead to the criminal conviction of four former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders, according to a report in the New York Times. The report follows the charges laid against

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The Big Law Firm Branding Problem (4 of them, actually)

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Marketing / March 6, 2014

Law firm branding has become a more important issue for law firms in a post-recession environment. But according to one branding agency, law firm branding is in regression. Why? Because for some reason brand awareness and related issues are dropping along with the quality and quantity of law firm branding. Greenfield Belser decided to poll

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