Data & Metrics

PMI Q2 analysis: Top of market law firms largely driving rate growth

The second quarter of 2020 was marred by near unprecedented global uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic was still in its infancy, and no one at the…

Joe Blackwood September 17, 2020

Lawyer productivity under attack: How to fight back

Remote working has proven to be largely a success — at least from the perspective of lawyer well-being. The impact of remote working on lawyer…

Jen Dezso September 14, 2020

Australia: State of the Legal Market 2020 — Growth amid the storm

Despite turmoil in the global economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 30,000-foot view of the Australian legal market looks relatively rosy compared to…

Legal Executive Institute September 09, 2020

2020 Legal Market Report: How Innovative Technology is Reshaping the Business & Practice of Law

If the traditional practice of law were a kitchen appliance, it would be a slow cooker with a few basic settings that got the job…

Legal Executive Institute September 03, 2020

2020 State of US Small Law Firms: While many firms talk about challenges, some make changes

While nearly every aspect of American life has undergone significant change this year due to the pandemic and ensuing economic crisis, some things have remained…

Legal Executive Institute September 02, 2020

PMI Q2 analysis: Small headcount shifts creep into Q2 results

As the second quarter of this year ended, the large law firm market still was grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Stay-at-home…

Isaac Brooks August 26, 2020

Legal Department Operations (LDO) Index: Dedicated legal operations comes home

The pace of change within corporate legal departments has not been swift. Indeed, over the course of several years’ worth of analysis of these departments…

Legal Executive Institute August 25, 2020

Why collaboration is (usually) doomed to fail — and how to buck the odds

The economics are straightforward: Those law firms that are able to serve corporate legal buyers in more work types and across more geographic areas can…

Jen Dezso August 24, 2020

The Am Law 200: “Envy and its Discontents”

This 3-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the previous installment of this three-part series analyzing the recently…

Legal Executive Institute August 19, 2020

Law Firm Partner Profits: What really stands in the way of profit growth?

Even before the onset of the global pandemic, law firms of all sizes were concerned about how to continue growing their bottom line into the…

Bill Josten August 17, 2020

Economic upheaval is an opportunity for “reimagining law firms,” panel says

A months-long pandemic, the largest protest movement in U.S. history, an uncertain economic outlook — or in other words, the perfect context in which to…

Peter Neal August 14, 2020

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, legal demand drops in Q2, impacting PMI

The first quarter of 2020 was able to stay strong in the face a COVID-19 pandemic that was still in its infancy in the United…

Legal Executive Institute August 10, 2020