Practice Innovations

The department & practice group leader’s role in sales management

The role of practice group leaders is changing. And new and seasoned department and practice group leaders will be wise to expand client relationships and…

Silvia Coulter April 08, 2021

Achieving cybersecurity maturity within your law firm

Imagine your firm can detect and contain a cybersecurity threat even before it has a chance to disrupt the firm's business. Threats could be contained…

Don Philmlee April 06, 2021

Digital upskilling in legal: More than just new technology

How many law firms have digital upskilling programs for their lawyers and staff members? Based on what I hear and read, very few, if any.…

Bob Dolinsky April 01, 2021

Redefining the office: Strategies for real estate relevance in a post-pandemic world

For decades, the commercial office was known as the workplace, defined by the primary activity of the day: work. People had to be physically present…

Kim Sullivan March 30, 2021

Did the pandemic set back the DEI clock?

To state the obvious, law firms have not made much progress in the areas of diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) over the past 30 years…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams March 25, 2021

Moving past buzzwords: 5 ways for law firms to build better client relationships

Relationships between law firms and their clients are too often thought of just in terms of buzzwords. Win-win outcomes, or sharing business risk, or investing…

Christopher Ende March 23, 2021

Current uses & next-gen opportunities of standards within the legal industry

In comparison to other software verticals which tend to be dominated by major players like Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle and others, legal technology is a fairly…

Kenneth Jones January 28, 2021

Rethinking “partners” for law firms: Creating an ecosystem for client value

Whether your law firm has an established presence within the legal industry or is just getting started, competing in a crowded marketplace requires more time,…

Edwin Smith January 26, 2021

Data Analytics: Driving value at the intersection of internal and external data

What a year 2020 was, to say the least. The legal industry was caught off-guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in redundancies, salary cuts, receivable…

Glenn LaForce January 21, 2021

Can the gig economy work in a law firm?

On an almost daily basis, we are given ample examples of the gig economy in action, from your Uber driver, to your Instacart grocery shopper,…

Bob Dolinsky January 19, 2021

Optimizing legal project management: Can you do the Kanban?

Can a stack of sticky notes, a pen, and a blank wall revolutionize your firm’s legal work? Kanban, a visual system for legal project management,…

Don Philmlee January 14, 2021

Which path for my law firm: Data warehouse or data lake?

Data-driven decision making has become an important topic among law firm leadership as they notice the success of progressive law firms that have established effective…

Todd Painter January 12, 2021