In chatting with my boss / colleague / mentor about the economic state of the legal industry, we stumbled on an interesting analogy. We were discussing the recent CT TyMetrix Real Rate report and the fact that the number one driver of differences in billing rates is a lawyer’s location. We concluded that law firms

[Guest Blogger: Mary Anne Fry]


One of the songs in the play Rent is the “Seasons of Love.”

In the song we are asked how we measure a year in our life…  Five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred (525,600) minutes in a year. ..Do you measure a year in daylights, in sunsets, ,

I was having a discussion with some attorneys recently about making everything accessible from within Outlook. Their collective spin was that they spend all of their time in Outlook, so IT needs to make everything work from within Outlook. My response to this was, “We need to get rid of Outlook. Email clients like Outlook

I started bouncing an idea around in my head this weekend while all of the Sunday Morning news shows were discussing Justice Stevens’ retirement. “If I had to replace Justice Stevens with a law librarian… who would I pick?” Now, you may chuckle about the idea of having a law librarian as Supreme Court Justice,