Practice Innovations

Improve Your Vision in 2020: Why Being a Visionary Leader Is Critical in Times of Dynamic Change

“What leaders struggle with most is communicating an image of the future that draws others in — that speaks to what others see and feel.”…

Mark Beese January 30, 2020

Eyes on the Prize: Survival Strategies for Midsize Law Firms Facing Big Law in Regional Markets

While global expansion garners top attention in media outlets, another dramatic shift among law firms is taking place at home: Big Law is invading secondary…

Marcie Borgal Shunk January 28, 2020

Addressing the Problem of Uncategorized Legacy Data

It’s easy enough to enable (and require) document profiling for new documents created within the system, but it is a challenging and seemingly intractable problem…

Conrad Jacoby January 23, 2020

Opportunity Knocks: Balancing Knowledge-Sharing Needs with Security Requirements

When a client hires a law firm, there is an expectation that the firm will leverage its collective knowledge for the benefit of the client.…

Gwyn McAlpine January 21, 2020

Trends in the Lateral Partner Recruiting Market

Given all the changes in the legal market, one might assume that the lateral partner market would also be caught up in some level of…

Toby Brown January 15, 2020

Fighting Back Fast: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that…

Don Philmlee January 13, 2020

From Problem Partner to Productive Partner: Helping Your Law Firms’ Underperformers

It can be stressful to coach your own partners, but it can also be rewarding. Once a partner has successfully turned around their practice, they…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams October 24, 2019

The State of Legal Pricing: Whither Rational Pricing?

This article was co-authored by Toby Brown, Chief Practice Management Officer at Perkins Coie, and Jill Nelson, Senior Director of Product and Business Management at OnePlace…

Legal Executive Institute October 22, 2019

New Technology Acquisitions: When the Perfect is the Enemy of the Good Enough

When organizations decide to invest in a major technology acquisition, they understandably want to ensure that their new tool or system is the best possible…

Conrad Jacoby October 17, 2019

The Rise of Enterprise Project Management

Projects fail for many reasons. Over the last decade many firms have created an internal project management office (PMO) to try to stem such failure.…

Don Philmlee October 15, 2019

Supercharging Your Firm’s Culture: From Stressed to Resilient

Have you ever noticed how some lawyers are unflappable while others broadcast stress? We’d all like to be or work with the former — not…

Anne E. Collier, JD October 10, 2019

Shedding Some Light on the Dark Web for Legal Researchers

To many people, the Dark Web means the shadowy part of the Internet where drug dealers, gun runners, child pornographers, and white supremacists go to…

Don MacLeod October 08, 2019