Midsize Law Firms Blog Posts

2019 Citi-Hildebrandt Report Shows the Legal Industry Is Booming, But Midsize Firms Have to Step Up Their Game

The US law firm industry is on pace to post its strongest growth year since the pre-recession late-2000s, but this booming performance isn’t being distributed…

Legal Executive Institute December 12, 2018

Law Firm Rate Setting (Part 2): Hard-Learned Lessons

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at lessons around law firm rate setting that the top-performing firms in our recent Dynamic Law Firm Study had…

Bill Josten November 29, 2018

How to Get Your Client’s Perspective on Pricing

As I write proposals, I am in a unique position to help in-house legal departments structure their RFPs so they get the answers they want…

Nancey Watson November 19, 2018

ILTA Survey Identifies Hot Spots, Challenges for Law Firm Technologists

Data and cybersecurity, cloud computing, and data analytics are three areas that this year’s recently released International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Technology Survey has identified as…

David Curle November 13, 2018

Demand for Legal Services Rises for Second Consecutive Quarter in Q3, according to Thomson Reuters PMI Report

The strong 2018 performance by the large law firm market continues to gather steam after a second consecutive quarter of positive growth among key performance…

Peer Monitor November 12, 2018

Law Firm Rate Setting (Part 1): Lessons from the Top of the Market

The recently released Dynamic Law Firms Study runs deep on lessons and insights for law firms. As the data shows, there are ways to increase the amount…

Bill Josten November 08, 2018

The 2018 Midyear Litigation Infographic: Seeing a Litigation Rebound

Litigation has long been an engine to drive the legal services industry in the United States. In recent years, it’s no secret that litigation work…

Justin Hines November 05, 2018

NYU Law Panels: What Will Be the True Impact of Legal Tech on the Future of the Legal Industry?

NEW YORK — What is the future of the legal industry? Will the largest and most prestigious law firms continue to steer the legal economy,…

Joe Borstein November 01, 2018

The Static Dilemma: Maybe Struggling Law Firms Can’t Afford to Invest in Marketing, but They Have To

“You can’t spend what you don’t have” — but “you have to spend money to make money.” These two old clichés are undoubtedly at odds with one…

Bill Josten October 31, 2018

Rising Stars Cohort Breakfast: The Many Faces of Networking

NEW YORK — The “art” of networking and how to expand your book of business through the focused, frequent, and proactive practice of it was…

Heather Fox October 30, 2018

Should Law Firms Mimic What Accounting Firms Do? Not Necessarily: An Interview with Prof. Laura Empson

We hear often that the Big Four accounting firms are coming to eat Large Law’s lunch. Conversely, we also hear that to both combat this…

Gregg Wirth October 30, 2018

New Report Points to Significant Decline in UK Legal Sector if ‘No-Deal’ Brexit Happens

As government officials in the United Kingdom continue to negotiate the terms of the country’s exit from the European Union, the rising possibility that the…

Legal Executive Institute October 29, 2018