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An Evolution from Cost Center to Business Unit: Corporate Legal Departments & Outside Law Firms
Once upon a time, in the traditional “guild” model of law practice, attorneys and firms set rates and legal clients simply paid invoices...
By Mike Russell
Feb 27, 20185 min read


Productize Your Practice and Ditch the Billable Hour
“Is the Billable Hour Obsolete?, The Billable Hour Must Die, An Obituary for the Billable Hour” These are the titles of a few recent...
By Heidi Simmons Ryan
Oct 20, 20177 min read


2017 Legal Procurement Survey 'What We Found'
Procurement continues to gain traction in companies with considerable legal spend. Many large companies today have a department dedicated...
By By Dr. Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Sep 14, 20175 min read


The Art of Pricing Your Services
Knowing the costs of serving your clients is important, but it’s not the same thing as knowing how to price your services. Costing is...
By Tim Williams
Aug 4, 20173 min read


Is the billable hour slowing down innovation?
"Is the billable hour slowing down innovation?" was the title of a webinar I recently had the privilege of being part of a couple of...
John Chisholm
May 18, 20174 min read


A low hourly rate is not the cheapest solution
We want to pay less. This is what resonates in the literature and studies on new developments in the legal market. The core theme in this...
By Hans Schuurman
Mar 14, 20178 min read


Litigation Funding in Europe and the Netherlands
The origins and developments of Litigation Funding written by Sara Liesker LL.M, Managing Director at LIESKER Litigation Funding...
Sara Liesker
Jan 10, 20176 min read


10 rules about hourly billing for law firms.
These "rules" were written sometime in 2010 or earlier by U.S. lawyer, blogger & creative entrepreneur Matthew Homann who at the time was...
John Chisholm
Jan 1, 20172 min read


Clients And Law Firms Rate "Value" Differently
Growing evidence reveals that firms define ‘giving value’ very differently from the way clients assess whether they receive it. There are...
James Bliwas
Dec 19, 20165 min read


Law firms the Pricing Debate Has Moved On: Get Over it
I know the death throes of time based billing in firms are significant with some firms now finding even more ways to track their time via...
By John Chisholm
Nov 25, 20165 min read


Crowdfunding, Crossing Borders
Introduction Crowdfunding is a means for a project owner to raise funds from investors (who are generally consumers) with the...
Anne Hakvoort, partner FG Lawyers Amsterdam
Jul 26, 201613 min read
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