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“Today, with the help of my thirteen year old daughter…”
This is how my former colleague, Richard Hsu, now a partner at Shearman & Sterling starts his “HsuTube” videos on complex transactional legal concepts. We’ve covered Richard before when he and I both worked
In this day and age of constant communications and observation, I guess the announcement from TLO shouldn’t surprise me as much as it did. It seems that TLO is launching a new service tomorrow that will use License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology and will return to you the places, times and dates that those license
Dan: You may not know this Jane, but I’ve been moving into more of a Pricing role at my firm.
Jane: I’m impressed. And a little frightened for the well being of your firm.
Dan: Every firm needs to have at least one person focused on determining the right price and fee structure for every
I wasn’t a part of the not quite 3 Beer lunch that Greg and Toby had last week that spawned their last two posts. (They never invite me to anything.) But you know me, ignorance has never kept me from espousing an opinion.
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In the same conversation that Toby and I had regarding email created a way for lawyers to not talk with their clients, we also discussed how people you’ve ‘met’ via social media sometimes don’t match up to their personalities when you meed them in person. Someone that may be very extroverted on
I don’t know how I missed it, but last week, Jones Day laid off 65 IT workers. Most of them were from my home town of Columbus, Ohio. [UPDATE: It appears the bulk of cuts were in Cleveland, not C-bus. Still Buckeyes though. 🙁 ] As I began reading the article, my
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#1 and I were chatting (not quite at 3 Beers) and he made a statement that really made me think.
Damn him.
We were talking about whether lawyers will embrace internal messaging apps or any other type of social media apps as KM or just communications tools. I commented that IT
Jane: I recently read a short book by Nilofer Merchant called 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era. In this lovely little tome she draws some powerful conclusions about the impact of the Social Era on business and the opportunity it provides to promote the Onlyness of individuals. Onlyness is the concept that each and every
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As legal pricing evolves, it is taking many twists and turns – along with some convoluted spins. The initial efforts by clients to save money typically results in requests for bigger discounts. This allows the GC to go back to the CEO and say “we saved 5% more this year.”
After a
As many of you have watched over the past two years, JC Penny has gone through a bit of a rough patch with its failed experiment with Ron Johnson as its CEO. In fact, today is the two-year anniversary of Johnson’s appointment, which collapsed back on April 8th. Johnson was viewed by most people as