Corporate Legal

Leading Lawyers: Your Most Potent Tool is your Mindset

Are you a practicing lawyer who is transitioning into a leadership role? Whether it’s as a managing partner, practice group leader, office managing partner, or…

Dr. Larry Richard April 15, 2015

The Emerging Legal Technology Forum Urges Technological Innovations to Improve Delivery of Legal Services

Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute joined with the Stanford Law School to conduct The Emerging Legal Technology Forum last week in New York City. It…

Ralph Baxter April 14, 2015

From the Emerging Legal Technlogy Forum: Technology-led Change in Here and Coming

NEW YORK—Change was definitely in the air at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, being held today in New York City, as Forum Co-Chairs Ralph Baxter…

Gregg Wirth April 09, 2015

Why Size Matters: Big Four Accounting Firms Poised to Move In

The Economist has a major article about the intentions of the Big Four accounting firms in the legal market, entitled Professional services: Attack of the…

David Curle April 08, 2015

Corporate Counsel Should Drive Innovation

Last week, I addressed lawyers and law firms, with a message about their interaction with clients. This week, I address the leaders of corporate law…

Ralph Baxter April 07, 2015

Pricing Power Meets Big Data & the New Analytics

The growth of professionals in Law Land with the word “pricing” in their title has been explosive over the past couple of years. It’s a…

Bruce MacEwen April 02, 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

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

Asia Pacific Legal Executive Briefing: The Evolving Interaction of Indigenous and Foreign Firms

HONG KONG—Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute conducted its 5th Annual Asia Pacific Legal Executive Briefing last week in Hong Kong. More than 70 law firm…

Ralph Baxter March 17, 2015

Women’s Transformative Leadership Summit: First Forum a Hit! Event to Chronicle Women’s Success & Promote Further Progress

The inaugural Thomson Reuters Women’s Transformative Leadership Summit took a big step forward toward becoming a must-attend annual event for established and rising women stars…

Gregg Wirth March 12, 2015

The Inherent Client Conflict of Interest Caused by Hours-Based Billing

For some time I have been troubled by the potential conflict of interest that hours-based billing causes between the lawyer and the client. The more…

Ralph Baxter March 10, 2015

Video: Pricing Becoming a Vital Focus for Law Firms, Says Pepper Hamilton’s Secor

LEI Chairman Ralph Baxter talks with Peter Lane Secor, director of Strategic Pricing and Project Management at Pepper Hamilton LLP, about pricing issues for law…

Peter Lane Secor March 05, 2015