In two separate articles, long -
time law firm consultant Joel Henning and former GE GC Ben Heineman, Jr. and William Lee, co-managing partner of WilmerHale, have highlighted the plight of the profession borne of the billable hour and the model that creates a ponzie - scheme - like need for ever increasing revenue in law firms.
Not exact matches
As schools and school districts can and have been successfully litigated for failure to conduct due diligence when selecting
consultants, it is important to take the
time to properly vet
firms to see if they have the credentials and experience to not only hold up as experts in a court of
law but more importantly to deliver high quality and effective services to help make schools safer and more productive learning environments.
And I actually DO agree with you that it's ironic a
law firm would cough up for an accountant to guard against trust report problems, and at the same
time have its members travel with unencrypted flash drives of client data, leave their wifi networks open, or use pet names as passwords — or any number of things that an IT
consultant would tell you not to do.
Your partners are busy and don't have the
time or money to spend on another unproductive business - school exercise led by
consultants who know almost nothing about your
firm or the day - to - day realities of the business of practicing
law.
Whereas a major
law firm may go to trial perhaps a dozen or two dozen
times per year and a single litigator may go to trial every few years, a single litigation
consultant at A2L will be involved in at least a dozen trials and often several dozen trials or more, every single year.
For three consecutive years, David was recognized nationally as the top «
Law Firm Business Development
Consultant and Coach» in National
Law Journal surveys, and he was similarly recognized in a 2015 Legal
Times survey.
David was ranked # 1 in the category of «Lawyer /
Law Firm Business Development & Coaching» in the 2015 Best of Legal
Times survey, and for three consecutive years, he was recognized as the best «
Law Firm Business Development
Consultant and Coach» in nationwide National
Law Journal surveys.
I believe this management technique has been widely overlooked by
law firm leaders, based on my 30 years» experience as a senior partner with management experience at an AmLaw 20
firm in New York and my
time as a
consultant in this field.
It comes via a colleague and long
time consultant to
law firms — Ann Lee Gibson — and was shared during a Legal Marketers discussion on Facebook.
Candice has valuable experience with mentoring in the legal profession not only from her
time practicing at a
law firm and in - house and in business roles at legal services companies, but also as a
consultant to attorneys on professional success and wellness, and continues to contribute to the Tennessee legal community through her speaking, training, and involvement in a number of legal associations.
Before devoting his
time toward helping ICE retain claimants on behalf of their
law firm clients, Matt was a software engineer /
consultant at Client Profiles, CRM4Legal & Aderant.
Unfunded pension liabilities like the one that helped bring down the century - old
law firm of WolfBlock are an issue
consultant Robert Denney has been screaming about for a very long
time.
His career spans 25 years, and in that
time Chuck has served as a top eDiscovery
consultant, an operations director for a Big Eight consulting
firm, and as a litigation and practice support manager at an AMLAW 50
law firm.
Special thanks to Stephen Seckler at the Counsel to Counsel blog for drawing our attention to a recent article by flextime
consultant Deborah Epstein Henry that explores job sharing as an arrangement that can help lawyers gain greater work / life satisfaction while meeting the demands of
law firms (and their clients) for full
time availability.
Sharon and Jim speak with Legal Technology
Consultant Andrew Adkins about his
time as chief information officer for the
law firm of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC.
We excel because our
consultants are the most experienced in outfitting
law firms and legal departments with solutions tailored to their specific needs — saving our clients
time and money and giving them their lives back.
A quick introduction for those of you who don't know about CLOC: CLOC is the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium — a volunteer - driven group made up of legal ops professionals (both lawyers and professional staff) who carry the full -
time and multidisciplinary responsibilities of
law practice management in legal departments; there's also a robust group of interested parties that orbit around the CLOC membership community — ALSPs (alternative legal service providers) and
law firms,
consultants, legal tech innovators, and managed service companies; the collective group that many CLOC - ers, led by co-founder Connie Brenton, refer to as their partnering «ecosystem.»