(aosphere + Neota Logic = #RegTech apps)

(aosphere + Neota Logic = #RegTech apps) helps financial services clients reduce risk.

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Posted by on Nov 19, 2017 in Technology | 0 comments

Who will sell a law firm’s services?

Is it time for law firms to deploy sales teams? Once this was a question only for bored legal ethicists and lawyers waking from Mametesque fever dreams. No more.

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Posted by on Nov 17, 2017 in Business models | 0 comments

Brian Inkster comprehensively reviews Remaking Law Firms

Scottish NewLaw pioneer, Brian Inkster comprehensively reviews Remaking Law Firms – Why & How in his first post on Dialogue. I am always delighted when a thorough review throws up challenges to our book, providing cause for fresh thinking – and perhaps pointing to a second edition.

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Posted by on Nov 14, 2017 in BigLaw firms, Business models, Remaking Law Firms book | 0 comments

Goodbye guild: Law’s changing culture

Mark Cohen’s column in Forbes, Goodbye guild: Law’s changing culture, struck a deep chord with this sentence: “Law is not about lawyers anymore”.

Rhetorically, one might ask, was law ever about lawyers? Like the other ‘original’ professions of medicine, priesthood and military service, law and lawyers – as I understand it – arose to further the interests of civil society and protect the rights of fellow human beings.

Which is what makes Mark’s commentary about law’s changing culture so important.

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Posted by on Nov 9, 2017 in BigLaw firms, Clients, Lawyers | 0 comments

Ingredients of enduring BigLaw firms

Ingredients of enduring BigLaw firms is a rejoinder to George Beaton’s recent post, Why BigLaw firms fail. My post explores how the ingredients of enduring law firms work inter-dependently to assure the sustainable success of firms that execute these basics consistently.

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Posted by on Nov 7, 2017 in BigLaw firms, Strategy | 0 comments

A strange finding on the use of NewLaw providers by BigLaw firms

A strange finding on the use of NewLaw providers by BigLaw firms focuses a seeming omission in the 2016 Alternative Legal Service (ALS) Study by the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, Georgetown University’s Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

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Posted by on Nov 2, 2017 in BigLaw firms, Law departments, NewLaw business models, Strategy | 5 comments

Why BigLaw firms fail

This post on ‘Why BigLaw firms fail’ aims to help prevent future failure of more firms.

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Posted by on Oct 31, 2017 in BigLaw firms | 3 comments