Efficiency

Infographic: As Legal Work is Pushed to Non-Lawyers, What’s the Impact on Rates?

It’s no secret that corporate law departments are looking to bring more work in-house, impacting the rates they pay to outside law firms. At the…

Justin Hines July 26, 2016

Deloitte’s Predictability & Flexibility Initiative Pays Dividends in Work/Life Balance

Efforts at greater inclusiveness and diversity at law firms, corporate legal departments and other institutions seem to have a stronger impact when part of the…

Transforming Womens Leadership July 21, 2016

AALL 2016: How Law Libraries “Make It New & Create the Future”

The theme for the 2016 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Show and Conference serves as a tribute to this year’s host city, Chicago, which…

Thomson Reuters Institute July 20, 2016

Contract Maturity Model (Part 3): Evolution of Content from One-Offs to Modular Components

This is the third, and last, article in the series of posts on the future of contracting platforms. It focuses on content systems — namely,…

Kingsley Martin July 20, 2016

Podcast: Dr. Larry Richard on the Legal Industry’s “Stress of Change”, Part 1

Change is never easy, especially the type of systemic and dramatic change the legal industry is experience in the current market. And lawyers — not…

Thomson Reuters Institute July 18, 2016

Q&A with Diversity Lab’s Caren Stacy (part 2): Looking at the “Women in Law Hackathon” and Measuring Success

This is the second part of Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law’s interview with Caren Ulrich Stacy. In the first part, we discussed the creation…

Transforming Womens Leadership July 14, 2016

Performance Measuring: Three Buckets of Important KPIs

As I’ve written here before, companies are becoming more sophisticated when it comes to measuring their outside legal counsel’s performance, yet law firms do not…

Nancey Watson July 13, 2016

Q&A Interview: How Did You Get Hacked? Finding Better Protection by Fishing in the Dark Web

As news of data breaches and hacker break-ins continue to make headlines, many companies and law firms may feel helpless as hackers continue to get…

Gregg Wirth July 12, 2016

Q&A Interview: A Managing Partner Talks About Maintaining Client Relationships

The question of how best to deal with clients is utmost on the minds of most law firm leaders, partners and lawyers. Now, in today’s…

Thomson Reuters Institute July 11, 2016

Infographic: Crowdfunding 101 — Is Your Start-up Ready?

Is your (or your client’s) startup ready for crowdfunding? This infographic provides an easy reference view of the different types of crowdfunding, their benefits, limitations…

Practical Law July 11, 2016

Forum Magazine Exclusive: Fenwick & West’s Attorney-for-Hire Unit Thrives amid Legal Industry Changes

Several years back, West Coast law firm Fenwick & West started hearing rumblings from some of its bread-and-butter clients — small or start-up tech companies that required…

Forum Magazine June 27, 2016

Is Disruptive Change Really Making a Difference in How Law Firms Approach the Market?

How much has disruptive change in the legal marketplace spurred law firms to actually change strategy to confront these challenges? So little that 66% of…

Bill Josten June 23, 2016