SmallLaw Vacation Policies
While the rest of you have spent the past three weeks sipping eggnog and draining champagne flutes, I’ve been on a mountain in Argentina — and it’s no...
When To Outsource
Once upon a time, I would have taken the Sidley Austin Word Processing Department back behind the bleachers and gotten it pregnant. To be able to drop...
Friends As Clients
When I was in Biglaw, I got to know a few people at the investment banks that were our primary clients, folks who were at the same spot on the bank to...
Competing with Clerky
One thing I never had to worry about in Biglaw was having a client compare me to a website. I can’t recall any investment bank or Fortune 500 company ...
What’s An Hour Worth?
I’ve always thought it was pretty cool that as attorneys our minds have been trained to the point where they can be billed out the same way a tiller o...
Change Or Irrelevance?
The legal industry has never been resistant to change. Observers and pundits often like to throw around the idea that the legal industry is just ...
This Is How You Do It
Recently we asked the ATL audience to help us get an empirical grip on the market for Continuing Legal Education. More than 340 attorneys from around ...
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Are you sitting in your office cranking out nondisclosure agreements for clients to use in their M&A deals?
I have some terrifying news for you: Th...
No Resting On Your Laurels
In SmallLaw, no ones cares what grades you got in law school. No one cares if you were on a journal. Few people even care where you went to school. It...
Let’s Not Kill All The Lawyers
Dick the Butcher was a minor character in the middle work of a trilogy of plays the Bard wrote about Henry VI. I’m a Shakespeare fan, but I have to sa...