Big Law: selling and supporting what you know
“Too many deans are wedded to running their schools as businesses for which U.S. News & World Report rankings supply the definitive means of evaluation. Too many special interests relating to the...
View ArticleWe interrupt your regularly scheduled law practice for this massive disruption
This is not your father’s Oldsmobile, as the classic television commercial went. The same can be said about the practice of law. Running your law firm — big or small, Main Street or Bay Street, local,...
View ArticleCliff diving v. cliff jumping
Before exploring the difference between cliff diving and cliff jumping, I was reminded this week of a quote from the 1994 book Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to let Employees...
View ArticleAlways be prepared
According to Vincent Polley, there are two kinds of law firms: those that know they have been hacked and those that don’t know they’ve been hacked.
View ArticleOpportunities and risk
Ontario law firms see opportunities and risks in an era of consolidation and slow economic growth. Clients who are released by merged firms due to conflicts, or are unwilling to pay the fees demanded...
View ArticleThe Penang lawyer
Beside the name plate outside Hartley R. Nathan’s 21st-floor downtown Toronto office is a small white ceramic plaque with the number 221B.
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More in-house cutting firms loose: study
More general counsel decided to cut ties with their external law firms this year compared to 2012, highlighting price and budget reduction among the top reasons.
View ArticleToward the lawyers of tomorrow
I often fantasize (when I’m not at work, of course) about whether one could really predict the future. What a life I would lead if only I could pick the best investments, predict the next big...
View ArticleWe are not quite perfect
As hard as it may be for some to believe, in-house counsel are not perfect! The legal media and blogosphere are filled with criticism of law firms and the legal profession by in-house counsel (and...
View ArticleLearned helplessness
I ran across the term “learned helplessness” recently in an article by Dr. Larry Richard. Being a pragmatic kind of person I admit my first reaction was less than supportive, thinking this was simply...
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