This contributed post by Larry Bodine presents an infographic developed jointly by Law360 and BTI Consulting and analyzes extensive
research about law firm billing rates.
The Institute of Mentoring is looking for law firms interested in participating in
research about law firm partners as mentors.
Not exact matches
Following CNN's report, several prominent Trump supporters slammed the special counsel or shifted attention onto Hillary Clinton and reports that her campaign had hired a
law firm which retained Fusion GPS last year, the opposition -
research firm that funded the so - called Steele dossier containing several salacious allegations
about Trump's ties to Russia.
About half of the company's $ 2.7 million in revenue comes from the federal government, with
law, marketing
research, and life sciences
firms responsible for the rest.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest
Research Group, says he'd first like to hear an explanation from Speaker Sheldon Silver
about the details of alleged payments from a
law firm specializing in real estate taxes.
Unfortunately the conclusions OSC has reached
about the University's use of the
law firm Hogan Lovells to assist with a project relating to the
Research Foundation seem to point to a fundamental misunderstanding
about the nature and scope of our medical university centers.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest
Research Group (NYPIRG), says he'd like to hear from Speaker Sheldon Silver
about the details of the speaker's alleged payments from a
law firm specializing in real estate taxes.
Using the confluence of Education Week and the start date of our
law firm's summer students, I am choosing to write
about some upcoming training sessions for
law students and those who ensure
law students are office ready vis - a-vis legal
research.
The Canadian
Law Firm Brand Index 2014 was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who, as part of Sharplegal 2013 research, were asked about their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound wo
Law Firm Brand Index 2014 was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who, as part of Sharplegal 2013
research, were asked
about their awareness of and favorability towards
law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound wo
law firms; their consideration of
firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of
firms for high value and inbound work.
(For those of you who need details on the methodology, Acritas disclose that the
research was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who were asked
about six factors — their awareness of and favorability towards
law firms; their consideration of
firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; and their use of
firms for high value and inbound work.
We've blogged before
about the best time of day for
law firms to send emails, and continue to monitor
research in this area.
If social media provided
law firms nothing else but the opportunity to receive instant feedback on their content, respond to public inquiries, and conduct free market
research about their brand and the things that matters to the people who care enough
about the
firm to talk
about it, social media would be a breakthrough technology.
About BTI Consulting Group The Boston - based consulting group is the leading provider of strategic market
research to
law firms and professional services
firms.
All of this has, of course, got me excited and thinking even more
about how these concepts should be applied to our work, whether it be administrating a
law firm, a
law library, a
law faculty, or teaching legal
research.
The
research literature provides examples of the types of
law firm policies that affect professionalism in practice — both from the point of view of what associates learn as well as their confusion
about the overt and subtle messages.
After a discussion among academics
about the perils of crossing the U.S. border with your laptop full of
research data, I began to wonder how diligent
law firms are in ensuring that nothing leaves the office on a laptop that is unsecured.
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 resolving a hypothetical legal problem or even required you to explain how you might go
about researching a particular issue?
I have also been thinking
about the notion of «
research and development,» something that tends not to be formalized or budgeted for in most (if not all)
law firms.
This, and the fact that I too am in the process of hiring a
research assistant for the summer, got me thinking
about the relation between
law schools and
law firms.
Last week, I wrote
about another legal
research site, Casetext, that is planning to do something similar by adding
law firm client alerts distributed via JD Supra.
About the Author: In my
research on litigation support services, I've studied the value of court reporting agencies to
law firms in need of depositions reporters.
McArthur
Law Firm does use aggregate information
about those who access its site for the purpose of collecting marketing data and other business
research.
Even in The Good Wife, a popular American television series
about a Chicago
law firm peopled by exceptionally attractive lawyers, online
research and cloud based storage have been part of the storyline.
While advertising and marketing your
law practice in search engines will not make it rain overnight, if you commit to thinking
about how your potential clients might use search to consume legal information, get answers, and perform
research, you might surprise yourself as to how successfully you can increase your
firm's profile online.
ROSS already has
law firms using their product and they've recently opened up an R&D lab in Toronto, that hub of AI
research that we talked
about recently.
Ari: [29:16] Joe, on that point, it was interesting, when we were doing the
research, that 88 percent of the people, both in - house counsels and
law firm lawyers, wanted to learn more
about measuring and understanding the effectiveness of predictive coding.
When Acritas
research surveyed in - house lawyers in 2007
about what sources influence their consideration of
law firms, none spontaneously mentioned
law firm directories.
This report summarized
research conducted around the world by or
about Bar Associations, Other Legal Associations,
law schools,
firms and legal futurists, articles, books, conferences and blogs.
Some months and a bit of
research later, writer Charlotte Santry proposed two different surveys: one for
law firms to examine how they treated pro bono activity (see the smashing chart) and the other asking individual lawyers
about their pro bono experiences.
I'll let you do the maths, but it looks relatively expensive to me if you are targeting the director / family business type market — not because the amount of work you'd have to generate would be that great to make it pay, but because of the lack of relationship between the marketing expenditure and the «
law firm choosing» process (the key metric
about which there seems to be little credible
research applicable to this market).
If you are considering divorce, whether here in Florida or elsewhere, and you are doing online
research about family
law attorneys, you will come across many
firms that describe their attorneys as «aggressive» and «ready to fight for you.»
Joe Patrice and Elie Mystal sat down with Above the
Law Research Director Brian Dalton to talk a little about the ranking and what clients are looking for in a law fi
Law Research Director Brian Dalton to talk a little
about the ranking and what clients are looking for in a
law fi
law firm.
Dr Kishore Sengupta, associate professor and director of executive education at Cambridge University's Judge Business School, began by talking
about his
research into the growing disconnect between clients and their
law firms.
About four out of five newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at commercial
law firms were retained after qualification last year, according to
research by the Chambers Student Guide.
In what I think is the second installment of my race to catch all of you up with what I've been doing (I discussed
law firm business licenses a couple of days ago), I'm here to talk today
about online legal
research providers — in particular, my journey to deciding on what to do for my legal
research needs.
The first thing to know
about them is that they are expensive forms of defense
research and preparation for
law firms to invest into, which is why they are normally only the kind of things that large corporate defense lawyers are able to invest in.
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In fact, a survey found that 80 percent of
law firms had clients who complained
about research costs.
Every year Chambers receives thousands of client references from
law firms eager to supply the
research team with people they think will speak positively
about their
firm and its lawyers.
Aderant
research indicates on average,
about one - third of the
law firm revenue comes in the final month of the year.
«Spend time learning
about how
law firms work from a business perspective,
research practice groups, because there are many that you may not even know exist, and try to just learn as much as you can
about surviving (and thriving) in a professional workplace.
I'd spent literally hundreds of hours
researching service guarantees while developing it for the
firm — there was nothing in the literature
about any other
law firm offering any sort of guarantee.
As someone who recently supported
law firm legal
research, would I ask the right question
about how someone needs to access information to provide the right tool at the right time.
According to
research by LexisNexis,
about 26 percent of an American
law firm's income typically comes from referred work.
It would not generate a conflict between the editorial objectivity of the
research team and the commercial imperatives of the business for Chambers to engage in advance of a new product launch with the people in
law firms who sign off on listings and other products, and make recommendations to the partnership
about commercial engagement.
If you're serious
about SEO for your
law firm website, you'll want to do a lot more
research.
Despite our best efforts, our colleagues in the
law firms still complain
about summer and articling students» lack of
research skills.
Confidence
about the future is running high in the City, but regional
law firms remain cautious, according to Smith & Williamson
research.
We do just
about any non-litigation
research or drafting that any
law firm in the US does, and most of the litigation work as well.
Joshua is a frequent lecturer around the country, and not just
about Clio, but
about topics like ethics and legal
research, and robots in
law firms.