This post is the final part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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By now it is obvious there will be no return to the glory days of an ever-expanding legal market and steadily rising hourly rates. Legal
This post is the fourth part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
The next generation of Legal Project Management software (LPM 2.0) extends and expands on the Planning and Budgeting capabilities of earlier products, and it includes tools to help
This post is the third part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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Even before the economic slump a handful of legal technology vendors recognized an opportunity to help firms better understand and budget for their non-hourly
This post is the second part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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There is no longer any doubt that the legal market has fundamentally changed in recent years. Every firm felt the weight of their clients’ demands
This post is the first part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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Project Management, which has been around since the 1950s, is defined on Wikipedia as “the discipline of planning,
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A friend of mine pointed me to an article from Quidlibet Research, Inc.’s, Nina Cunningham, entitled “Leveraging the Assets of the Law Library.” I read it… then I read it again… then I read it again. Each time finding different things to agree, and disagree with. I
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Following on the heels of recent posts on the market value of BigLaw and the behavior of partners as workers, we explore the merge-point for those two topics in discussing partners as equity owners.
The market refers to the owner level of law firm partners as “equity partners.” After giving
Honestly answer the following questions:
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Law firms invest in associates. That seems obvious. They bring in the best and brightest, planning to groom them into future partners. Firms spend considerable sums, investing in these assets. So for fun, let’s take this “investment” as a strategy at face value.
My recollection of the stat is that after
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I attended a seminar last week on process management in legal departments. Onit sponsored it and the content was quite useful.
However, beyond the value of the content on process innovation, I retrieved a golden nugget of wisdom. Bradford Power, an expert on process innovation and change, was speaking on