Efficiency

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

The Business Imperative of Good Sleep: Are Law Firms Snoozing and Losing?

In an article in Practical Law UK, author Anna Fletcher, Director in Employment, Labour and Equalities at Gowling WLG, discusses research by Prof. Vicki Culpin of Ashridge Business…

Thomson Reuters Institute June 13, 2016

CodeX FutureLaw Conference: Progress in the Trenches (Part 2)

STANFORD, Calif. — If the various criticisms of the legal industry’s slow pace of change represented in Part 1 of this blog post set the…

David Curle June 07, 2016

Contract Maturity Model (Part 1): From One-Off Contracting to Portfolio Management

This is the first in a series of three articles examining how contract creation is evolving to meet the needs of modern business. This initial…

Kingsley Martin June 01, 2016

Forum Magazine Exclusive: Law Firms Tentatively Embrace Open Office Floor Plans

When McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s premier law firms, invited its partners, lawyers and staff to move into the firm’s new open office spaces in…

Forum Magazine June 01, 2016

CodeX FutureLaw Conference: The Legal System on Trial (Part 1)

STANFORD, Calif. — At the annual CodeX FutureLaw 2016 conference, hosted by Stanford Law School’s CodeX center, legal tech was on trial — literally and…

David Curle May 25, 2016

White Paper: How the Cloud Can Help Shape Law Firms’ Data Security Efforts

Cloud technology has offered a new opportunity for users — including law firm and corporations — to take their data sharing, storage and networking responsibilities into…

Alexander Major May 05, 2016

Podcast: Reorganizing Your Midsize Firm for the Future

Many firms follow the “barbershop model” – an organizational structure that rewards individual behavior but often results in isolated practice areas with weak cross-selling activity…

John Remsen, Jr. April 26, 2016

Restarting Your Firm’s Stagnant Lawyer Efficiency Programs

A law firm’s knowledge strategy program — often created amid much serious talk about increased work efficiency yielding more time to tend to client relationships…

Gregg Wirth April 25, 2016

Benchmarking: Knowing Where Your Firm Stands

The idea of knowing where you stand in the business world is hardly new, but it is one with which the legal industry has struggled…

Bill Josten April 12, 2016

Will a Lean Six Sigma Diet Save Big Law?

There's a growing list of consulting firms and organizations marketing themselves as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) shops aimed at improving legal business operations, such as…

Sean La Roque-Doherty April 07, 2016

Four Common Cybersecurity Myths Debunked

One of the greatest challenges for organizations, including law firms, attempting to address cybersecurity risks is the number of fundamental security myths that cause organizations…

Michael Overly March 31, 2016