Do BigLaw managing partners see their worlds differently?

Do BigLaw managing partners see their world differently? invites Dialogue readers to share their experiences and views on the extent to which BigLaw leaders align with and differ from C-suite executives in corporations.

The Conference Board recently published The Future-Ready Organization reporting how CEOs and C-suite executives are thinking about the next few years and their vision for how their organisations will thrive in 2025 and beyond.

What’s your view about BigLaw?

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Big 4 vs BigLaw Legal Talent

My Tweet (featured below) gave rise to multiple related and robust conversations, especially about the legal talent that BigLaw (large law firms) hire versus the talent that the Big 4 hire. And I suspect that alternative legal service providers align with the Big 4 for purposes of this talent conversation.

The conversations highlighted for me the question of whether the Big 4 can achieve substantially different results, costs, or outcomes by hiring the same legal talent as BigLaw does.

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Remaking News of the Week: Canadian business is turning away from BigLaw

I re-phrased the headline of this week’s Remaking News of the Week to read Canadian business is turning away from BigLaw because, like some others, I find the reference to ‘alternative legal service providers’ in the source of the news an anachronism.

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BigLaw partnerships’ productivity lesson for big corporates

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Remaking News of the Week: End of the BigLaw business model?

Remaking News of the Week: End of the BigLaw business model? features a reflection by Richard Tromans in Artificial Lawyer, his always-topical, on-the-money publication.

In his July 2 piece, “Is the end of the traditional large law firm model here?” Richard reports this was his main thought after speaking to the leaders of Freshfields Lab in Berlin’s ‘cool Factory innovation space.

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