Lawyers like to define terms, so how do they define themselves? The American Bar Association (ABA) describes a lawyer as: “a licensed professional who advises and represents others in legal... read more →
The legal industry has several wicked challenges: access to justice; legal education and training for a rapidly changing marketplace; enhancing delivery and improving consumer satisfaction; aligning the appropriate resource with task;... read more →
The Future Lawyer is based upon the Mark Cohen’s keynote address to The German Bar Association on May 26th, 2017. Mark starts by identifying some of the key challenges attorneys will... read more →
The legal industry is an ecosystem; there’s an inter-dependency between and among its elements. So, for example, when clients sneeze, law firms catch a cold; law schools get the flu;... read more →
Kraft Heinz, the Fortune 500, $100 billion food giant, recently hired 29-year old David Knopf as its new Chief Financial Officer. His promotion, according to a recent Forbes article "is another... read more →
This post was written by Mark Cohen and Liam Brown and originally appeared in Canadian Corporate Counsel Association magazine. Lawyers are about precedent–stare decisis–not innovation. They are trained to identify issues... read more →
It’s time the legal industry pays more than lip service to embracing diversity, technology, and collaboration with other professionals. We live in a diverse society; an interconnected, interdependent world; and... read more →
The corporate segment of the legal marketplace is a buyer’s market, and they are driving change. Legal consumers were once content to proscribe cost-controls including discounts, staffing limitations, “most favored... read more →
Gina Passarella’s recent article, “Talking Business of Law: The Dance Around Change,” explores whether the long static legal industry is undergoing real change or simply dancing around it. The analysis... read more →
‘Culture’ describes the values, philosophy, shared objectives, and interactions–internal and external-- of its members. Corporate culture, at its best, aligns the interests of the enterprise with customers and imbues workers... read more →