Law schools’ lost opportunities

Law schools’ lost opportunities by regular Dialogue contributor Mark A. Cohen extends our discourse of legal education and the need to modernise law schools in the face of rapidly changing needs and the technological revolution.    

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Posted by on Aug 1, 2019 in Law schools | 0 comments

Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers, Part 3

Parts 1 and 2 of Mark Cohen’s Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers were published on Dialogue earlier in April. Today’s Part 3 concludes the series. I predict Mark’s essay will go down as a defining moment of insight into the transformation of business models on the supply-side of legal services.
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Posted by on Apr 30, 2019 in Legal services ecosystem, NewLaw business models | 0 comments

Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers, Part 2

The first article in this three-part series introduced enterprise legal service providers (ELSP’s), proclaiming their entitlement to the “elite” status accorded a cadre of brand-differentiated traditional partnership model firms. This essay analyzes in greater depth the emergent, transformative, and impactful role that enterprise legal service providers play in the global legal marketplace. This is Part 2 of Mark’s three-part series, with the third to follow on the Dialogue. .  

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Posted by on Apr 23, 2019 in Legal services ecosystem, NewLaw business models | 0 comments

Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers, Part 1

Mark Cohen takes another look at so-called ‘ALSPs’ in his recent Forbes piece, Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers. I have not-a-little licence in styling the elite law firms of the world as ‘alternative’. But, Mark’s point is just this: A handful of elite firms doing the biggest, most complex, bet-the-farm work are now starting to put daylight between themselves and the rest. In the not too distant future, it’s not unimaginable that the ‘elite’ will be the ‘alternatives’ – just much, more profitable.  This post is Part 1 of 3, with the others to follow on the Dialogue. 

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Posted by on Apr 16, 2019 in BigLaw firms, Legal services ecosystem | 0 comments

‘Legal Services’ are whatever buyers need to solve business challenges

In ‘Legal Services’ are whatever buyers need to solve business challenges Mark Cohen points out that legacy definitions what constitutes a ‘legal service’, who the client is, and who provides the service constrain our thinking and retard innovation by those invested in traditional paradigms. It’s in the interests of the whole ecosystem that we all revise old thinking (including words and symbols) and adopt new ways to meet the challenges of better, faster, cheaper service to clients and access to justice.

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Posted by on Mar 12, 2019 in Legal services ecosystem | 0 comments