Sentences with phrase «conversation about the law firm»

Last week, we opened a conversation about the law firm of the future.

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But it may be more difficult for tech firms to justify scanning conversations in other situations, said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who writes about tech.

On Aug. 10, 2016 — a day before David made two calls to JCOPE — Grandeau wrote about details of his conversation with Agata on his law firm's blog.

«The idea is that if you can combine all this information about lawyers, law firms and clients in one place, then the whole will be better than the sum of its parts,» Eric Ryles, vice president, customer solutions, ALM Intelligence, told me during a recent conversation.

In highly competitive markets, law firms need to attract the attention of potential clients, and keep them coming back by authentically engaging them in conversation about your practice.

In highly competitive markets, law firms need to attract the attention of potential clients, keep that attention through valuable content and motivate users to keep coming back by authentically engaging them in conversation about your practice.

I recently had a conversation with Sean Larkan, my Australia - based colleague with Edge International, about what law firm leaders need to know about social media.

In all the conversations I have with our in - house judges, with leaders in law firms and other service providers who are touting innovation in law, about how we determine what is innovative for our annual Innovatio Awards it seems everyone is looking for that unicorn of a project or individual who is doing things no one has seen before.

I think the lesson here is lawyers and law firms should make a point of having a conversation on the front end when they're vetting IT consultants to have a frank conversation about how those consultants make money and which products in particular they are representatives for or have commission relationships for and to make sure that you can still get the advice you want or the recommendations you want in light of that.

I was fortunate to attend its recent annual institute in May and it was a completely energizing and refreshing series of sessions and conversations where in - house counsel, law firm lawyers, law school professors and other business professionals came together to have candid interactions about how they need to work better together to push the agenda on process improvement and innovation.

I think today's conversation with Peter and Natalie about how they've built a future - centric law firm should be a really good topic to tie in your long - term strategic planning as you do some new years resolutions and goal planning for the year.

During a spirited Twitter conversation on LLLTs, Greg McLawsen of Puget Sound Legal forwarded this article, in which he and another attorney talk about the LLLT program and whether it makes financial sense to bring LLLTs into a law firm setting.

At Professional Services Marketing Blog, Larry Bodine has a podcast in which he tells about his recent conversation with the managing partner of a Chicago law firm.

I do have conversations with our law firms about what they do to promote that kind of environment.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

After a conversation with Thomas L. Friedman, author of the book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty - first Century, about whether some of what was in the book would apply to the legal vertical, Mark started Clearspire, a virtual law firm and legal services company that upended the traditional law firm business model.

One, they are getting a lot larger, we know that, but fundamentally that's not about sort of more seats and chairs, it's really a new business model and it's affecting how law firms invest in technology, how they think about technology, how they think about process, how they think about their business models, that's going to be really what that opening session is about is exploring that whole space and talking about how those changes are impacting all the conversations that will be happening throughout Legalweek in all the different streams and in all the different sessions.

A comprehensive law firm TD framework includes cohesive and integrated programs covering, for example, recruiting; lawyer training programs customized to class year and practice group; a clear, robust performance review and associated compensation system; a philosophy and system for the allocation of work; resources to enable lawyer career development and self - direction, including core competencies, benchmarks, individual development plans, and other self - assessment tools; mentoring and sponsorship programs; career coaching and conversations about pathways to partnership; and fully developed alumni tracking programs, including, when appropriate, the placement of law firm attorneys with clients and the provision of professional outplacement support.

I recall a conversation with a friend — happy with his life but on average earnings — about a dinner he'd had one evening with husband and wife law firm partners whose monthly disposable income — disposable mind you, disposable, let's keep that word front - of - mind for a minute — was # 90,000.

Law firms enhance their image by proudly touting that they conduct upward reviews on a routine basis, often discussing them in recruiting conversations and posting information about them in the attorney PD / TD sections of their websites.

I had a conversation with a member of Law Firm Confidential yesterday about the things he should be doing right now to get his law firm up and runniLaw Firm Confidential yesterday about the things he should be doing right now to get his law firm up and runnFirm Confidential yesterday about the things he should be doing right now to get his law firm up and runnilaw firm up and runnfirm up and running.

I had never really thought of starting a law firm, but I ended up in a conversation with a friend of mine in New York about setting up their London branch.

I've had a number of conversations of this type recently with law firm leaders and managers, and it's led me to reflect on a subject we don't talk much about: Power in law firms.

Our conversations led to an extensive interview about both my book, Law is A Buyer's Market, and my thoughts on how lawyers and law firms can respond to the major shifts underway in the legal markLaw is A Buyer's Market, and my thoughts on how lawyers and law firms can respond to the major shifts underway in the legal marklaw firms can respond to the major shifts underway in the legal market.

But, noticeably absent from the conversation about implementation were actual practicing law firm partners.

Law firms now care (at least a bit) about technology: Whether the result of client pressure (more on that below), shifting priorities among senior firm leadership, or as a lagging indicator of a general trend among professions, law firms are now open to conversations about the widespread adoption of new technoloLaw firms now care (at least a bit) about technology: Whether the result of client pressure (more on that below), shifting priorities among senior firm leadership, or as a lagging indicator of a general trend among professions, law firms are now open to conversations about the widespread adoption of new technololaw firms are now open to conversations about the widespread adoption of new technology.

Meanwhile, Stephen Parry from the legal team at The Co-operative Group says that fixed and capped fees work well for transactional work but when it's for something non-transactional and hourly fees are used, it is difficult to have a pragmatic conversation with a law firm about how much a matter is going to cost.

By doing this, you will be able to contribute meaningfully to conversations with your law firm colleagues about cutting edge legal information, you will be first to learn of developments in the law that may impact your firm or your firm's clients, and you will be building a foundation for locating and connecting with potential clients in the future.

In recent months, I have engaged many of our law firm clients in direct conversation about the level of adoption of eDiscovery within their firms.

We keep dancing around the idea of hiring new roles in law firms and thinking about innovation — putting technology in place — but we're missing the meaty part of the conversation, which is who is going to uproot this entire model?»

Most recently, his firm's flagship property at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was the subject of controversy: Around the time his father - in - law received the Republican nomination last spring, Mr. Kushner's firm began conversations with a Chinese company with ties to some of the Communist Party's leading families about a plan to invest billions of dollars in the troubled office tower.

Fourteen years ago, Crampton had «two or three» vague conversations with real estate firm RealtySellers about competition laws before the company launched an anti-competition lawsuit against TREB in 2002.