Albeit less newsworthy today, news of surging and sustaining investments from developing countries, in particular Asia serves as a...

Citi Private Bank and Hildebrandt Consulting Published an interesting report on growth in the Legal Market. Their executive summary...

The legal industry is transitioning from guild to marketplace. Differentiation is becoming critically important in a field long known for...

When I taught a law school course to upper-year students last year, I encouraged them to do something that was not part of the class and...

From the Fourth Leader’s Pulse Survey Exactly 10 years ago, in March 2007, at a time when most firms were doing very well economically, a...

Procurement continues to gain traction in companies with considerable legal spend. Many large companies today have a department dedicated...

2017 is a special year for many Europeans as it marks the 500th anniversary of what is generally accepted as the start of The...

Technology companies catering to the legal industry have been around for many years, but "legal tech" only became a recognized term...

Nearly every law firm of any significant size will have a Board of Directors or Executive Committee comprised of partners elected by...

Lexpo presentation by Harvard's David B. Wilkins In this talk, Professor Wilkins identifies the key trends reshaping the global market...

First-of-its-kind hub aims to address pressing issues in new economy The Whitespace Legal Collab, housed on the 27th floor of Baker...

This post was based upon the author’s keynote address to The German Bar Association on May 26th, 2017. One way to describe the future...

Allen & Overy (A&O), the blue-blood UK-based global law firm recently announced the launch of a technology innovation space inside its...

Linking Empirical Academic thinking with Legal Practice A business perspective on legal services differs strongly from a purely legal...

You’re the Managing Director of Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Leiden Law School. Many people know your Center - but for...

The Business Case for Smart Collaboration in Today’s Law Firms Professional service firms face a serious conundrum. Their clients...

The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute...

In 1989 the American legal scholar Robert Eli Rosen published an article on the dramatic growth in the size, prestige, and influence of...

The jobs of being a firm leader within a law firm should come labeled with a clear warning: This job could seriously change you and how...

In a post last month, Ron Friedmann poured cold water on the notion that large law firms were anywhere close to being "disrupted" -- to...