[Guest Blogger – Tracy Thompson-Przylucki]
I’ve given a lot of thought to the issue of Annual Meeting programming almost since my first meeting in 1997. I can recall in my first few years of attendance hearing my more senior colleagues express dissatisfaction with the programming, the scheduling, the no-conflict limitations, etc. As I newb,
[Guest Blogger Mark Gediman]
Since my post last week (A modest proposal), I’ve discovered that I’ve hit a nerve. I’ve received several off-the-record responses as well as a few blogged ones, the most recent of which was from Caren Biberman this morning. I have to say that several things
Marketing is not a bunch of random acts of marketing.
After reading Kim Rice’s blog on “How Can Law Firms Help Their Lawyers With Marketing?”, I just had to chime in.
The science of marketing, which is a combination of accounting, economics, statistics, management and, now, online technology, is a complex and fascinating field
A couple months ago we wrote a post about “Inefficient Westlaw Searches Causes One National Firm to Hold Mandatory Training for Associates”. Well, the firm that took on this challenge was Dykema, and I think that they took on an issue that most firms need to address. Pat Orr, Dykema’s Manager of Library Services,
[Guest Blogger Mark Gediman]
Scene: A dark room, the only light coming from two guttering candles sitting on a large weathered wooden table.
According to the New York Times, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is “tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years” with the goal of making “its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.” Apparently, the new grade inflation for law students is becoming all the rage across
I sat in yesterday on an event hosted by LexisNexis on the webinar/virtual panel entitled “The Discipline and Benefits of Project Management.” The two panelist were Bruce MacEwan, Founder, Adam Smith Esq., and Tom Birsic, Partner and Litigation Practice Leader, K&L Gates, and both had a lot to say about the current state
In the recent Law Technology News Vendor Satisfaction Survey, it seems that the users of the low-cost legal research service Fastcase give it an 87.5% “Excellent Price for Value” approval rate. Compare that with the users of Westlaw (12.7% “Excellent Price for Value”) and Lexis (14.3% “Excellent Price for Value”). Granted, there were a lot more
Nick Milton is one of my favorite bloggers on the issue of Knowledge Management because he is able to succinctly lay out KM procedures and processes in a way that even those who have been in KM for years can learn. I’ve complained about KM becoming a group that merely supports “products” and “software” more than preserving