It’s the business model that matters

It’s the business model that matters is another Mark Cohen masterpiece dissecting the failings of the BigLaw business model by reference to three pioneering NewLaw model firms, particularly the little-known FisherBroyles of the US. 

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Remaking News of the Week: Legal departments lag in digitalisation

Last year beaton published one of the first reports on how corporate clients view innovation as a strategy for themselves and what they seek from their outside BigLaw firms. The extracts from the findings are illuminating and are worth contrasting with Gartner‘s report on digital transformation of law departments.

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Remaking News of the Week: Why Breakaways and Boutiques are Flourishing

In Remaking News of the Week: Why Breakaways and Boutiques are Flourishing I feature a piece from LAW.COM titled Good-Bye Big Law, Hello Boutiques. Why These Young Lawyers Are Sold on Smaller Firms. I commend the read and, if you’re inclined, podcast because it cogently reminds larger BigLaw business model firms that they are no longer the talent magnet they’ve been accustomed to for all of living memory.

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Continuing Heather Suttie’s Analysis of the Big Four: Next Big Bite

Continuing Heather Suttie’s Analysis of the Big Four: Next Big Bite is an insightful look at just how far and fast the Big Four are likely to encroach on BigLaw’s patch. Heather’s post is well-timed! In the last two months two Australian-based former managing partners of King & Wood Mallesons, a premier BigLaw firm, have been named global heads of PwC Legal and KPMG Legal. A certain sign of the times      

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Anna Hinder makes her debut with House Sitting or House Stealing

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