Throughout our coverage of the Georgetown University Law Center’s conference on “Law firm evolution” (click here), the hot topic of conversation was the recent development of entrepreneurial law firms.  As discussed by Richard Susskind in his book ‘The End of Lawyers?’ and our interview with him during the conference (click here), innovation is the driving [...]

  Our coverage of “Law Firm Evolution:  Brave New World or Business As Usual?”, a conference held March 21-23, 2010 by the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  For all our posts on the conference click here. Reported by:   Gregory P Bufithis, Esq.    Founder,  ThePosseList.com and ProjectCounsel.com   The dinner/panel discussion was titled “What [...]

Part of our coverage of “Law Firm Evolution:  Brave New World or Business As Usual?”, a conference held March 21-23, 2010 by the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  For all our posts on the conference click here.   Reported by:  Gregory P Bufithis, Esq.    Founder,  ThePosseList.com/ProjectCounsel.com  If only we had been listening [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here.            Logik is one of the more extraordinary companies to come onto the e-discovery scene.  A dynamic company, they derive their name “the formal systematic study of the principles [...]

  In Part 1 of our Trends series (click here) we provided some brief observations on trends we see in the contract attorney market and e-discovery market based on our conversations and meetings over the last few weeks.  Here in Part 2 we concentrate on going solo/freelancing,  and building a website/blog.  In Part 3 this afternoon, [...]

We covered Richard Susskind’s speech at the ABA TechShow (click here) and we had previously covered his thoughts in our “Changing Legal Landscape” series (click here). Today’s Legal Blog Watch reports on a trend of BigLaw being dumped for lower-priced boutiques following the lead of DuPont and adding firms with 300 or fewer lawyers to [...]

Keynote speaker Richard Susskind “wowed the crowd” and he was usual best.  We saw him last year in London shortly after his book The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services was published and he continues to give a grand performance.  And his humor is as crisp as ever. He kept to the main [...]

The paradigm-shift Almost 7,000 lawyers have been laid off in the first two months of this year.  And all are not yet accounted for.  In today’s New York Times Adam Cohn dissects the paradigm-shifting changes taking place in the legal profession.  Noting the massive layoffs and venerable firm closures, Cohen suggested that these events are [...]

Last night’s and this morning’s lead story in the legal media:  800 law firm jobs lost in one day.  And there will be more firings to come (click here for a sample).    For the contract attorney market there is a little gloating and perhaps a little schadenfreude.  Especially in the switch by AmLaw 200 advisers who first [...]