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A friend recently gave me a copy of Blue Ocean Strategy, a business management book from 2005. The concept is very compelling, create new markets rather than struggle with increased competition for existing, shrinking markets. The authors call these new markets Blue Oceans. The competitive markets are Red Oceans, for all the blood in
“‘Is it making all of us uncomfortable? Yes. Especially when you start to move away from the more routine sort of work,’ says Toby Brown, the director of pricing at Vinson & Elkins LLP.”
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Ron Friedmann of Strategic Legal Technology blog and I consider in this joint post the impact of “Law Factories” on the future of large law firms.
Introduction – by Ron Friedmann and Toby Brown
Law firms face an uncertain future, with competitive markets, intense price pressures and a drive to change. So they are beginning
Many of us have already seen a few projections of what will happen in the legal industry this year. Most of those predictions are “yawners” (such as Richard Susskind’s prediction of firms adopting more social media, adopting cloud-based apps, and using tablets… which Toby labeled as Susskind “jumping the shark” on his predictions.)
We’ve all got our heroes…Mom, Dad, or a teacher in High School are traditional ones, but how about in your profession? Who are the heroes in your profession that have changed how you look at your profession? Perhaps it isn’t even a person, but maybe some event or act from a group of people that