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Canadian Perspective: Billable Hour Morphing into Alternative Fee Arrangements

It may not be in its final hour, but more and more lawyers are conceding the billable hour is being put in its “proper place”…

Jennifer Brown April 01, 2015

Three Basic Questions: A Roadmap to Client Satisfaction

Achieving client satisfaction requires more than doing excellent legal work and reaching a satisfactory outcome. It requires the lawyer to deliver service in a way…

Ralph Baxter March 31, 2015

Why Not Encourage All Lawyers to Market and Sell?

“To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.” This from famous Minneapolis businessman and author,…

Kevin O'Keefe March 30, 2015

Facing Up to Legal Education’s Daunting Challenges

Most practitioners have plenty to worry about, as they prepare their firms and organizations for an evolving legal services industry. Do we also need to…

David Curle March 26, 2015

Make it Happen! What is your Firm Doing to Achieve Gender Equality?

International Women’s Day was March 8. The theme for this year is: Make It Happen. Patricia Arquette must have known that when she advocated for…

Twila Reid March 25, 2015

Legal Tech 2.0: The World We Live in Now

How exactly will technology change the way legal service is delivered? Nearly everyone in law accepts that great change is underway, and that it is…

Ralph Baxter March 24, 2015

A Few Critical Strategic Questions to Ask Ourselves

There are a few critical questions that successful firm leaders need ask of themselves and ask of all of their partners on a regular basis.…

Patrick J. McKenna March 23, 2015

Q&A Interview: Survey Finds Firms Using More Benchmarks in Lawyer Evaluations, Says NALP’s Patterson

The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education released a new report on lawyer performance evaluations. The report, entitled How Lawyer Evaluations Measure Up,…

Tammy A. Patterson March 19, 2015

A Framework for Managing Change

Most people in the legal industry feel like they’re finally starting to get a handle on all the various things that have been changing in…

Bill Josten March 19, 2015

Video: Singapore’s Importance to the Asia Pacific Region’s Economics, Says A&G’s Wong

HONG KONG—LEI Chairman Ralph Baxter talks to Lucien Wong, Chairman and Senior Partner of Allen & Gledhill, the largest and one of the most prominent…

Lucien Wong March 18, 2015

ABA Antitrust Immunity? Not so Fast

Hallelujah! A profession just lost a very big round at the Supreme Court. I refer of course to the Court’s 6-3 ruling in North Carolina…

Bruce MacEwen March 18, 2015

Video: Leadership Vital to Achieving Integration Issues on a Global Scale, Says King & Wood’s Fuller

HONG KONG—Stuart Fuller, the Global Managing Partner of King & Wood Mallesons, speaks with LEI Chairman Ralph Baxter about how the firm, which was created…

Stuart Fuller March 17, 2015