Legal innovation at Fireside 2019

A ‘happy camper’ was an accurate description of me one weekend last month. I was a guest at this year’s first-ever Legal Innovation Summit, which was part of the Fireside 2019 conference. The experience was extraordinary, writes Heather.

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Posted by on Oct 3, 2019 in Innovation, Legal services ecosystem | 0 comments

Remaking News of the Week: Cole Silver’s timely statement of the obvious

In Remaking News of the Week: Cole Silver’s timely statement of the obvious says: “Clients put food on your table and they’re the reason you exist. Having a client centric leadership is the key to driving superior performance and a competitive advantage” (LinkedIn).

One might well ask why make a statement like this newsworthy? Answer: Yes, it’s a self-evident truth, but still far from a reality for the majority of clients of BigLaw business model firms.

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Posted by on Sep 30, 2019 in Clients, Leadership | 0 comments

Remaking News of the Week: Mark Rigotti speaks about the future of work

In Remaking News of the Week, Mark Rigotti speaks about the future of work in an interview with journalist James Ashton. Mark is the long-standing CEO of Herbert Snith Freehills which is a pioneer of many new ways in a legacy BigLaw business model firm.

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Posted by on Sep 26, 2019 in Future, Talent | 0 comments

Strategies for uncertain times

With Strategies for uncertain times, Heather Suttie makes a positive contribution in the gloomy, global environment from which no legal services provider will be shielded.

 It’s said that wars are won by strategy and battles are won by tactics. If that’s the case, then uncertainty around upcoming international political events—Canada’s federal election, Brexit, the 2020 U.S. election and forecasts for a financially-soft 2020 worldwide—may be among the factors that spur discontented clients to force change upon traditional law firms or leave them high and dry.

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Posted by on Sep 17, 2019 in BigLaw firms, Strategy | 0 comments

More for less is more than a slogan

Mark Cohen’s More for less is much more than a slogan explores one of several economic opportunities and cultural challenges facing BigLaw business model firms.

Business is about doing more with less. This is its mantra since the global financial crisis. Tech-enabled, data and process-driven upstarts have unseated a pan-industry array of incumbents and ushered in the digital age. Optimization of customer access, satisfaction, and value are common denominators among the disruptors.

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Posted by on Sep 10, 2019 in Legal services ecosystem | 0 comments