Midsize Law Firms Blog Posts

Securing Your Practice’s Future: Making a Strategic Plan

In the inaugural post in this series, I argued that creating an effective strategic plan is central to achieving overarching financial health. Long-term business stability…

Mark Haddad June 25, 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

The Hidden Costs of Cutting your Legal Marketing Budget

It’s the classic chicken-and-egg problem: You don’t have money to invest in marketing, but you need marketing to grow. And while there are plenty of…

Michelle Calcote King June 19, 2019

Want to Be a Rainmaker? Here’s a Few Key Concepts You Need to Know

Lawyers who aspire to be partners or run their own shop are inevitably expected to put down their legal pads and do something law school…

Tad Simons June 18, 2019

Augment 2019: Professional Services Laying the Groundwork for AI in Practice

CHICAGO — The Legal Executive Institute’s Augment 2019 conference stuck a finger in the wind of how far artificial intelligence and its ilk have transformed…

David Curle June 11, 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

Forum Magazine: Kellye Moore, of Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Moore, on the Challenges of a Small(er) Law Firm

The difference between large and small law firms cannot be measured merely in head count, office size or the depth of the client book. For…

Gregg Wirth June 10, 2019

Forum Magazine: Pricing Officer Profile — Bree Johnson of Robins Kaplan

We’ve all heard an exhausting amount about the systemic changes that law firms are experiencing in today’s market, but perhaps no part of a law…

Bill Josten June 07, 2019

What Practice Leaders Should be Doing to Advance Diverse Talent

We recently sat down with M. Scott Peeler, Partner and Co-Leader of the Government Enforcement & White Collar practice and Executive Committee member at Arent…

Natalie Runyon June 06, 2019

A Lucrative Micro-Niche: The AgTech Practice

In our continuing series on lucrative micro-niche practice areas for lawyers, we examined how technology is dramatically changing the face of agriculture and how some…

Patrick J. McKenna June 06, 2019

Securing Your Practice’s Future: Why Law Firm Strategic Planning Matters for Small Law Firms

Despite being generally grouped together, small law firms are of such a diverse nature and character that it is difficult to paint them with a…

Mark Haddad June 04, 2019

Forum Magazine: Agile, Adaptable and Engaged — Introducing Fluid Law Firms

In recent years, law firms have experienced a pressure to innovate and adapt to an increasingly client-centric market. While there seems to be a willingness…

Anders Spile June 03, 2019