“Publish or perish” is academia’s mandate. “Collaborate or perish” might be law’s equivalent. Why? Technological advances, global markets-and labor pools, and post-financial crisis fiscal constraints have accelerated disaggregation in legal...
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India is about to open its legal market to foreign-based firms. This is not a sudden development; India was a signatory to the 1995 General Agreement on Trade in Services...
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Back in the late ‘70’s, there was a popular commercial where a young professional commented above the din of a dinner party conversation that his broker was E.F. Hutton. The...
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Its NBA Finals time and LeBron James is once again on the court. It’s been almost six years since he rendered “The Decision,” proclaiming to millions tuned into ESPN that:...
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It’s hardly news that the once-cozy relationship between BigLaw and corporate legal departments has morphed into something quite different. In Facebook terms, it’s gone from “in a relationship” to “it’s...
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The emergence of litigation finance is another telltale sign of a maturing, rapidly changing legal marketplace. Buyers and sellers of legal services have so much more to consider these days...
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Hulkamania ran wild the night Hulk Hogan defeated Andre the Giant in the main event of “WrestleMania III” before a live audience of over 92,000 and millions more watching on...
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The ABA recently renewed–and shelved-- the alternative business structures (ABS) debate, and the battle lines were familiar. The retail segment of the legal market is where the most strident exchange...
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Last week I wrote an article analyzing the principal reasons why corporate legal departments are taking on so much more work themselves instead of outsourcing it to law firms. This is,...
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I skimmed the “Top Headlines” of a recent edition of The American Lawyer and was struck by the lineup: (more…)
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