I was privileged to have been asked by the American Bar Association to write an article about the future of the legal profession for “The Annual Big Ideas Issue” of Law Practice Magazine (July/August 2014). Click on the image to read the article in full.
I hope you enjoy it.
Gerry
According to communications expert Nick Morgan, merely presenting data is no way to convince people of anything – no
In recent years, boutique and even mid-sized firms have begun to offer increasingly specialized ranges 
of legal services. One notable example in this regard was recently the subject of an article in The Philadelphia Business Journal.
Helbraun Levey & O’Donoghue was established in Manhattan in 2005 to meet the specific needs of one industry
(Note: The positive feedback I received on an article I wrote about client retention for the most recent issue of Edge International Communique (EIC)* led me to believe that perhaps the readers of this blog might be interested as well. I am therefore republishing it here.)
This article could equally well be called,
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“People will not buy what they do not understand.” – Lee LeFever
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A recent article in the Harvard Business Review makes a compelling argument for not only explaining our work to our clients, but for thinking carefully about how we explain it, including what words we use.
As Lee LeFever, the author
The iPad has become a formidable competitive weapon for law firms:
Quote from Fennemore Craig case study on Apple.com/business:
"If I didn’t have an iPad as a lawyer, I’d be at a major disadvantage,"
Quote from Virtual Strategy Magazine article: iPad® Harnessed by Law Firm to Sharpen Client Service
Now, legal materials live on
An article in this month’s Corporate Counsel Magazine has the spotlight on Valorem and for good reason.
Author Susan Hansen says:
Valorem… now boasts a list of big, brand-name clients, including funeral industry giant Service Corporation International; national shoe retailer DSW Inc.; Veolia Water, a supplier of water and wastewater management services; and the online
I received this correspondence from Hoshedar Wadia, a partner in one of India’s most sophisticated law firms, Juris Corp. This firm deals in matters that range up to the hundreds of millions of US dollars in sophisticated areas like Capital Markets, Structured Finance, Securitization and so on. In the spirit of disclosure, I have
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SEPTEMBER 2010
September 24th, 2010
ADR Institute of Canada National Conference September 23-24, 2010
Plenary Session: Optimal Marketing for ADR professionals
Workshop: Effective Marketing for ADR professionals
Calgary, Alberta
OCTOBER 2010
October 9th, 2010
Fordham Law School (for Prof Silvia Hodges)
Guest Lecture: Law firm management: Strategy
New York, New York
October 14th, 2010
(with Nicole
