The legal profession and the trillion-dollar global industry are undergoing a transformation. The seminal elements of legal practice–differentiated expertise, experience, skills, and judgment–remain largely unchanged. The delivery of legal services... read more →
New business models are the key to innovation, not new technology. That’s the conclusion of a recent Wall Street Journal CIO article that draws from business guru Mark Johnson’s new... read more →
Last week’s column examined the disconnect between law’s “innovation” fixation and its low customer satisfaction and distribution challenges. Instead of embracing the customer-centricity characteristic of digital transformation companies like Amazon... read more →
Law is struggling to keep pace with the speed of business as well as to satisfy clients. One key reason is that there are too many lawyers involved in legal... read more →
Ferris Bueller famously quipped, “Life moves pretty fast.” Imagine what he would say now …The pace of change is accelerating at warp-speed, buoyed by technological advances, communication, and globalism. Dell... read more →
The staid legal industry is smitten by “innovation,” even as it lacks a common definition how the term applies to legal delivery and education/training. There’s a proliferation of awards, job... read more →
Big Four goliath Ernst & Young (EY) announced it will be acquiring Riverview, a UK-based alternative legal service provider (ALSP). The deal has drawn considerable media coverage. “Big deal or big yawn?”... read more →
Last month I wrote an article, When the Numbers Don't Add Up: Vermont Law School's Tenured Faculty Purge and What It Portends. It cast a harsh light on the economics... read more →
Vermont Law School (Vermont) recently announced it had issued pink slips to 14 of its 19 tenured faculty members. This is not the first time a law school has terminated... read more →
Law is staging its own version of “every kid gets a trophy.” Its award season is longer than baseball’s, and the list of award categories rivals the Oscars. Every week,... read more →