Jordan Furlong’s keynote address “Climbing the Value Ladder”  at the recent  PLL Summit outlined the critical forces reshaping the legal market. Furlong  concluded his talk with an optimistic array of emerging  roles and responsibilities which obliterate the cliche of “library as administrative cost center.” In my experience it is rare moment when a lawyer/consultant escapes the prison of “librarian conventions”  and

Jim Jones’s (Hildebrandt Institute) PLL Summit presentation “State of the Legal Market 2011” outlined a series of factors which combined with the financial downturn created the “perfect storm” of disruption in the legal marketplace. The Corporate Executive Board issued a report to member General Counsel that was recently reported in the press giving the “In

Jim Jones, Thomson Reuters VP, law firm consultant, Leader of the Hildebrandt Institute, former  Managing Partner at Arnold & Porter and General Counsel at APCO Worldwide, provided a data rich overview of law firm financial and practice trends at the PLL Summit.  He concluded his review of  legal industry trends with a list of challenges and opportunities for Executive