After Greg’s post on crowdsourcing, he and I met to explore how
"But We Don't Have The Staff To Do That!!" – Can Law Firms Leverage Crowdsourcing?
In the age of “doing more with less” there have been numerous things that we’ve just had to stop doing because the costs outweighed the benefits. For example, staff members may have tagged news articles by certain internal taxonomies in order to build daily newsletters that get sent to the attorneys in your firm. Or,
If Gartner Does It Why Can't Your Law Firm Do It? – Giving Your Professionals Their Own Blog Space
I stumbled across the Gartner Blog Network this morning while searching for legal news. For some reason I’ve never visited the Gartner blog before, but I was immediately impressed by what I saw, and the underlying concept of the network.
There are 69 Gartner analysts that contribute to the blog network, and according to Gartner,
BigLaw Lawyers and Paralegals To Get Kindle 2 – Loaded with National Reporter Sets and US Code
Breaking News: All 800 attorneys and 200 Paralegals at an undisclosed BigLaw firm are to receive Kindle 2’s. The Kindles will all come preloaded with the entire National Reporter Sets, US Code, CFR and Federal Register.
“It just makes more sense to enable our attorneys with a portable library at their fingertips” says the firm’s
BigLaw Beneficiaries
Statistical Juxtaposition
Earlier in February, I sat in on a webinar provided by Altman Weil on Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA). I had planned on getting a bunch of work done while I listened to the same ideas I’ve heard numerous times before. Fortunately, I didn’t get much work done since the program had some excellent content.
Two
Graphing this Week's Changes in Major Law Firms
The past few weeks have been pretty hectic with all of the BigLaw layoff news. We thought we’d graph out some of the changes that have occurred.
Using IBM’s Many Eyes project (which we reviewed a couple weeks ago) – We put together a few different views of which firms were moving attorneys
BigLaw Layoff Trends: DLA Piper
Last week, DLA Piper announced that they were laying off 80 attorneys and 100 staffers. Over the past week, we’ve tracked DLA Piper to see which attorneys have been coming and going, and we’ve found some interesting trends that we thought we’d share with you.
All Bad News?
Turns out that DLA Piper added 11
"Black Thursday" -You Thought Friday the 13th Was Bad… Thursday the 12th Was Even Worse
Thursday February 12, 2009, a day that most of us in large law firms will remember for a long time. Losing over 800 jobs in law firms in one day is a terrible, terrible thing, but we’ve all been hearing that some firms are doing “stealth” layoffs as well. This really means that there are
Who Washed My Briefs?
NOTE: We welcome our first Guest Geek Blogger, Laura Walters. Don’t let Laura’s well-written post fool you, she’s just as geeky as any of the 3 Geeks!
I was rereading a favorite book recently that seemed even more appropriate given the recent economic news and general upheaval in many industries, Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My