Jordan Furlong on Collaboration (Part 1)

Regular Dialogue contributor, Jordan Furlong, penned two outstanding posts on collaboration in March 2019. I am pleased to give both more airtime given the shibboleths and taboos Jordan is outing. Jordan’s first is published on Dialogue today as Jordan Furlong on Collaboration (Part 1).

Remaking News of the Week: Now it’s KPMG Legal and Plexus Law

“The future of the law is not a battle of Big and New. It’s a battle to create solutions that deliver unprecedented value to clients” wrote Andrew Mellett, Founder of Plexus, in a LinkedIn post last week.”

Look at the Whole Board

Look at the Whole Board by Patrick Lamb is a pithy intellectual challenge to all of us. Based on his reflections on the Deloitte-Epstein Becker announcement, Patrick invites us to consider whether the Big Four really are the bogey men for BigLaw firms?  

Remaking News of the Week: Tipping point reached in legal departments are spending

Today’s Remaking News of the Week: Tipping point reached in legal departments spending reports a milestone in Altman Weil’s long-running (at least for legal services) time series on corporate law department  spending.

Lessons for Lawyers from a Low Cost Indian Hospital

Remaking News of the Week: She breaks the law

When I came across the She breaks the law headline and this graphic on LinkedIn, I could resist posting on Dialogue. Congratulations on brilliant communications Dominque Meert of Brussels.

Legal Gets a Mulligan

OK, I have to admit when I first read Heather’s post Legal Gets a Mulligan I had to ask Google “What’s a Mulligan?”.  

I found this helpful explanation in Wikipedia, “A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. Its best-known meaning is in golf, whereby a player is informally allowed to replay a stroke, even though this is against the formal rules of golf.”

Read on and decide for yourself about the power of Heather’s Mulligan metaphor.