He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun-Tzu
To fully appreciate and understand the challenge of How To Alternative Bill, we should explore the various aspects of the challenge. This means we should explore all the reasons lawyers and firms have not embraced new ways of billing
One of my favorite things about the end of the year, is the lists of Top 10 [insert inane subject here] of 2008. I just can’t stop myself from stopping everything I’m doing to scan these lists to see what folks though was the best (or worst) of the year. And this year, I don’t
The vast number of posts and articles on alternative billing focus on what law firms should be doing. Law firms need to figure out alternative billing. They need to figure out how to make money and save clients’ money at the same time. Especially large firms (a.k.a. BigLaw) need to offer this up to clients
One of my first product evaluations (way back in July!!) was a web RSS creator called Dapper. And I still use it from time to time, but this week I’ve been playing with a similar product from Yahoo called Yahoo Pipes. I’m just beginning to scratch the surface with Pipes, but I can
Law firms and clients for years have treated alternative billing (a.k.a. NOT hourly billing) much like a junior high school dance. At the Junior High Dance the boys stand on one side of the room and the girls on the other. Each side talks about how they would like to dance, but when it comes
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This week, we’ve been listing
There are a number of large law firms that have officially sanctioned blogs, and we’ve compiled a list of those that we could find. Out of the National Law Journal 250, we found 136 141 blogs from 53 56 firms. Now, let me explain what we mean by “officially sanctioned blog.” We are stretching this
There have been a few law firms out there that have taken a slow approach to Twitter, but I ran across one today that has taken Twitter straight to its homepage and says “Follow Me!!”
