Who’s In Dialogue: 12

Who’s In Dialogue: 12 is in its 12th week; thanks for playing.

Who is known for particular expertise in legal project management (LPM) and wrote a post on LPM for Dialogue with Doug Richardson?

For those joining recently: Once-a-week, I provide a clue about one of our Contributors to Dialogue and invite you to join the fun by telling us in a comment to whom you think the clue refers. Proofs from public sources are published the following week.

Remaking News of the Week: The fearless Adam Smith Esq

Remaking News of the Week features the fearless Adam Smith Esq (aka Bruce MacEwen of New York). I say ‘fearless’ because he describes (many/some of) the BigLaw leaders with whom he converses as being ‘deluded on stilts’. Decide for yourself.

I say ‘fearless’ because he describes (many/some of) the BigLaw leaders with whom he converses as being ‘deluded on stilts’. The single most frequent response to this question Bruce hears, “Well, no one, really.”

Decide for yourself.

Remaking News of the Week: Collision of legal and accounting services

The collision of legal and accounting services is this week’s Remaking News featuring Stephen McGarry’s new report. Stephen analyzes the imminent ‘collision’ of legal and accounting services and subtitles his report ‘Global Disruption and Opportunity’.

Consider the facts and prognostications and decide for yourself what tectonic shifts lie ahead for BigLaw firms.

Remaking News of the Week: SmartLaw

Around 500 BC, Confucius wrote ‘He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools’. I borrowed the aphorism to address lawyers and BigLaw firms in my contribution to HighQ’s 2018 collection of short essays “What do lawyers and law firms need to do to prepare for the future?”.

Why lawyers must escape the gravitational pull of specialisation

Ken Grady argues why lawyers must escape the gravitational pull of specialisation. And he does so convincingly in this post.  

In his argument, Ken cites evidence of why ‘expert-generalist’ or ‘T-shaped’ people innovate more successfully than those with a narrow focus. In the case of legal services, Ken suggests this is because lawyers have become super-specialized over the last four or five decades.

Remaking news of the week: Riverview Law

Today Remaking the news of the week reports on developments at Riverview Law, Karl Chapman’s UK-based law company. Karl shows what Riverview offers to address what he calls the ‘flying blind while burning fuel’ opportunity.