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As I sit here in a hotel room editing this post, and going over my notes for the four presentations I am giving at AALL this year, I realized that I’m taking to heart some of the perspectives we gather on this week’s Elephant Post. There were many good suggestions on
Projections for 2011 were that the legal market would be stagnant. We thought we’d ask if you are finding those predictions to be true. From those that I’ve talked to, it seems to depend upon what part of the industry you are in. If you are in the state government sector, it seems that the
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Whenever I am in a room that is discussing how to handle “information overload” there usually comes a point in the conversation when someone says “I just don’t know how people can monitor all that information – blogs, twitter, email, professional reading, etc. – and still handle all the demands of
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Whether you call them Social Media Consultants or Social Media Gurus, there are people out there that are more than ready to come in and work with you to set up a social media policy and explain the ropes of the social media world for lawyers and law firms. In
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We love looking at new products and hearing about products from our peers. This week we decided to try to urge some peers to chime in on the Elephant Post and let us know of some products they’ve been looking at, and though we should as well. We have a few,
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Almost without fail, whenever I bring up the issue of Client Relationship Management (CRM) tools with others in the legal industry, the conversation ends up talking about what an overall failure the CRM resource ended up being, but because the firm invested so much time, money and people into the
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This week’s Elephant Post question on Project Management (PM) centers around the concept of is PM conducted in a law firm setting significantly different enough from PM conducted, say in a Fortune 500 company, that it deserves its own classification? Is it Legal Project Management (LPM)? Or, is it simply
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For this week’s Elephant Post, we dive into the core issue of how law firms (mainly BigLaw) are starting to split the Associate ranks into a “Partner Track” and a “Permanent Associate” track. Many of us have heard Associates talk about something like this for years… where they want
We seemed to have asked about a hot topic issue this week when we wondered if non-lawyers that work at a law firm should be visible through the firm’s website. This actually may be the Elephant Post with the most contributions (18 total), and although most answered “Yes”, it wasn’t even close to a unanimous
After a few weeks of being serious with the Elephant Post questions, we decided to tone it down a little bit this week and let you stretch your Pop-Culture muscles and tell us what movie or television show, that features lawyers, you think is the greatest of all time. I mentioned last week that Joss