The future of knowledge management: out of the library into the front line
Ian Mason and Rob Martin of Thomson Reuters explore the new KM landscape. What is knowledge management? In its early…
Guest blogs
Guest post: ‘Seamless’? The unintended consequences of Norton Rose Fulbright’s ‘combination’ argument
A few weeks ago reports surfaced about a motion seeking to compel Norton Rose Fulbright to withdraw from representation of…
Achieving financial independence is so much easier if you create a plan
Towry’s Chris Cole explains how they help legal partners achieve lifetime financial goals Over the many years we have been…
Guest post: Snake Hall – the games tax lawyers have played
I recently finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, a truly brilliant novel about the ascent of Thomas Cromwell to political…
Guest post: Sorry tech apostles – law firms do get Twitter (that’s the whole problem)
People occasionally ask me if I tweet (I don’t) and what role I think Twitter has in law firm marketing…
The student view: Davis Polk’s Will Pearce talks deal lawyering at Wall Street’s finest
London may have caught New York-based giant Davis Polk & Wardwell’s eye as early as 1973, but it’s only two years…
Guest post: A cannon fodder shortage looms as LPC and trainee numbers head for market over-correction
Nigel Hudson has written an interesting post on LPC numbers. He says (among other things): ‘The number of students enrolled…
Guest blog – Securities lawyers and sticky contracts: innovation and elite law
I am sure you, like me, have been on the lookout for an elegant, readable, sophisticated and fairly short book…
Comment: The social contract – what is the law firm but the people?
The market for legal services will never be the same again. Mergers, alternative business structures, multi-disciplinary practices, law firm failures, onshoring, offshoring and the continual…
Guest blog – Innovation in law: are you one of us?
Debates about innovation in law can be a bit tribal. The Creative Destroyers decry the billable hour. They mock Big…
Guest blog: Do you heart QualitySolicitors?
I’ve spent the last two days at the QualitySolicitors conference in Manchester. I was invited to chair the opening session…
Guest post: Topline heroin – how global law became addicted to the wrong measure of success
One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of…
Guest post: ‘Culture’ wins yet another victory over business judgment (or how to actually have a law firm strategy)
Here’s Scenario One: you’re in an executive committee or practice group or departmental meeting at your law firm, and the…
Guest post: Abu Qatada – a victory for pragmatism and the rule of law
Only a matter of weeks ago, politicians were seriously discussing the possibility that the UK might need to withdraw from…
Guest post: Forget Dewey – what you need to be assessing on strategy and partner pay
Law firm managers who are planning large-scale, hubristic expansion-by-acquisition should study the Dewey & LeBoeuf morality play very closely. The…