Data & Metrics

How Well Do Law Firms Understand Their Own Pricing Economics?

It’s been more than three years since I wrote my “Alphabet Soup of Law Firm Pricing” series for the Legal Executive Institute blog. That series…

Frederick J. Esposito, Jr., MBA, CLM July 16, 2019

Midsize Firms Flexing their Competitive Spirit with Large Law

To say that large corporate clients have historically been reticent to work with smaller to midsize law firms would be inaccurate. There is simply no…

Bill Josten July 15, 2019

Cost of Compliance Survey 2019: After 10 Years of Regulatory Change, Nothing Is Certain Except More Change

It has been 10 years since the great financial crisis and its aftermath led us into an environment that has been characterized by change, change,…

Susannah Hammond June 27, 2019

New White Paper: Can Law Firms Hire Smarter?

Law firm strategies around hiring and retaining lawyers are complex and multi-dimensional and are getting more so as this issue becomes more and more vital…

Legal Executive Institute June 26, 2019

New White Paper Details How Law Firms Are Using ALSPs

Is the emergence and growth of the market for alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) a threat to the dominance of law firms in the eyes…

Legal Executive Institute June 20, 2019

BigLaw Market Report: Am Law 100 Firms Continue Strong Performance in Q1 2019

We have written extensively in the past about how Am Law 100 firms seem to have solidified their position as market leaders among the segments…

Bill Josten June 19, 2019

Forum Magazine Infographic: Landmark Study Shows ALSPs Thriving, Thanks to Organic Growth and Increasingly Sophisticated Services

Just two years ago, many in the legal profession could credibly claim that they didn’t quite understand what alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) did, nor…

Forum Magazine June 17, 2019

Us Too? Bullying & Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession

NEW YORK — At the International Bar Association’s (IBA’s) Us Too event — conducted in conjunction with the release of the largest-ever survey examining the…

Legal Executive Institute June 13, 2019

Legal Pricing and Project Management Pros Commanding Competitive Salaries, But with Disparities

The burgeoning field of legal operations has been the source of much discussion on both the buy- and sell-side of the legal market in recent…

Bill Josten June 13, 2019

Infographic: How Much Do Law Firms Spend on Marketing and Business Development?

How much law firms spend on marketing and business development is always a question that generates much debate. Firms don’t want to be outspent, but…

Legal Executive Institute June 10, 2019

Why Corporations are Using ALSPs …and Why Law Firms Should be Concerned

For decades, corporate clients have provided law firms with a market stronghold. But law firms’ once-firm grip on this market has been loosening over time.…

Connie Brenton May 30, 2019

Forum Magazine: The Data-Driven Practice — Rodney Miller of Alston & Bird

Rodney Miller is director of Business Information Governance at Alston & Bird LLP. He took part in a panel on governance at the Thomson Reuters…

David Curle May 21, 2019