A Challenge For The Gatekeepers

In his recent post, A Challenge For The Gatekeepers on Above-The-Law, David Perla wrote: “I have a message for the gatekeepers of the legal industry: Change is coming — with or without you”. In my opinion, David knows a thing or two about the challenges that BigLaw firms face – and are largely still ignoring. Read what he has to say. Stop and reflect ‘Are you a gatekeeper?’ and if so, ‘Who’s interests are you serving?’  

BigLaw’s Gender Diversity Problem Is The Traditional Model Itself

Anyone remember the Jerry Reed song, “She Got The Goldmine, I Got The Shaft”? The country crooner garnered a Grammy for singing about the inequitable upshot of his divorce. That song came to mind when I read the recent Law 360 “Glass Ceiling Report” on women in law firms. Perhaps a female lawyer with a good voice and an ability to strum could reprise Reed’s tune and call it: “He Got The Corner Office, I Got The Door.”

Female lawyers still get the shaft. Why?

One of the last bastions of the old world

In his review of Remaking Law Firms in the Journal of the Law Society of New South Wales, Justin Moses refers to the traditional law firm as ‘one of the last bastions of the old world’. Read what the Head of Knowledge & Development: Compliance, Legal & Secretariat at the Westpac Banking Corporation has to say.

ABA honours Remaking Law Firms with three major reviews

On its ShopABA page, the ABA honours Remaking Law Firms: Why & How with three major reviews, one from each of the UK, Spain and the US. Read why Barry Wilkinson, Dr Eva Bruch and Bruce MacEwen commend Remaking Law Firms to law firm leaders.

On the Future of Law Departments

Today Dialogue is pleased to publish this piece on the future of law departments by Ken Grady. Increasingly clients are leading change in the way they meet their legal needs.  We move forward by challenging the way things are today.

Profit, delusion and the BigLaw obsession

His K&L Gates provenance and the way our guest contributor began his article in Legal Business caught my eye. Tony Griffiths’ piece was titled “…on profit, delusion and how Big Law became obsessed with the wrong things”. With his permission, we quote Tony and reinvigorate the debate on the dangerous obsession with law firm league tables.

How much time does BigLaw have?

Dialogue is pleased to publish, How much time does BigLaw have?, a question posed by London-based Mark Rigotti, joint CEO of Herbert Smith Freehills. Read why Mark asks this question, and my reply in the first comment.