Midsize Law Firms Blog Posts

Using Your Platform for Good: How to make stronger workplaces during the pandemic

We continue our new blog series, Using Your Platform for Good, in which author Irene Liu, General Counsel of Checkr, expands on crucial topics of…

Irene Liu May 04, 2020

Data-Driven Law Firm Financial Performance & Profitability Analytics for the Next Wave

In January, I conducted a law firm sentiment survey that asked how firms performed in 2019 and whether 2020 would bring more or less favorable…

Mark Medice April 30, 2020

In the Pandemic, Exceptions to DMS Work Processes Can No Longer Be the Norm

Law firms have an inglorious history of internal non-compliance with security and information governance policies, such as around their document management system (DMS). Now, however,…

Joshua Fireman April 28, 2020

In the Current Crisis, Your Firm Needs You to be Both a Manager & a Leader

This 2-blog series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked…

Thomson Reuters Institute April 28, 2020

U.S. Bank Legal Operations: Key to Achieving Success Is an Expansive Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Caren Ulrich Stacy, CEO of Diversity Lab, earlier this month urged law firm leaders to “double down on diversity” as part of her “recession advice.”…

Natalie Runyon April 27, 2020

Monitoring Client Industries & Planning for the Pandemic Aftershock

Amid the fast-paced consequences of this global COVID-19 pandemic, it is already a given that every law firm must now adapt to dramatic and rapidly changing…

Patrick J. McKenna April 22, 2020

Law Firm Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Current Actions & Future Challenges

Over the past few weeks, the legal industry, like the rest of the economy, has struggled with how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Essentially…

James W. Jones April 21, 2020

Maintaining Technological Competence as a Lawyer

More and more courts and bar associations have revised their ethics rules to specifically state that lawyers must have some level of technological competence to…

Conrad Jacoby April 21, 2020

Manager or Leader? Right Now, You Better Be Both

This 2-part blog series was written by Bruce MacEwen & Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. Over the past couple of weeks or so, we…

Thomson Reuters Institute April 20, 2020

Focused Firms: Segmental Differences in Demand & Efficiency

We continue our series of blog posts using Peer Monitor data to examine the characteristics of Focused Firms — those law firms that have 50%…

Joe Blackwood April 13, 2020

10 Steps to Strengthen Your Law Firm in a Crisis

Your law firm is dealing with an incredible number of headaches right now. Clients and therefore many law firms may be slowing down. Revenue may…

Audrey Rubin April 13, 2020

How to Talk to Your Clients about COVID-19: Client Feedback During Pandemic Response

It may not be your first instinct to conduct a client feedback program while the world — and more specifically your clients — are in…

Jen Dezso April 10, 2020