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American Lawyer Media Releases White Paper on the New “Hot Job” — Pricing Professionals in Law Firms.

By Jean O'Grady on June 10, 2013

American Lawyer Media Just released a special report on “Pricing Professionals” in Law Firms: Here for Good — Pricing Professional in Law firms and This Impact on Clients and Firm Business.

In the five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, both law firms and clients have been whipsawed by the economy. Corporations have

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The Evening Law Student Solution:An Overlooked Asset in the New Legal Marketplace.

By Jean O'Grady on May 30, 2013

Last week I attended the 100 Year Anniversary of my alma mater the Fordham Law School Evening Division. When Fordham was planning an earlier reunion, Assistant Dean Robert Reilly discovered that the school didn’t even keep a separate list of evening division grads. The school regarded the day and evening divisions as equivalent programs. Everyone got

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Bloomberg Is On a “What’s Wrong with Big Law?” Roll

By Jean O'Grady on May 7, 2013

This morning I attended a presentation at Bloomberg HQ given by Bruce “growth is dead” MacEwen. He has so many unique insights I definitely recommend reading his book to absorb them all. He showed some amazing slides on the configuration of the legal industry before and after the 2007 crash.

One interesting “aside,” focused on the corrosive

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Practice Innovations: The “Legal Project Management” Issue

By Jean O'Grady on March 23, 2013

The March issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations is out. Articles focus on legal project management in various contexts, Litigation, Knowledge Management, Research, Process Improvement.

Here are links to the articles:

Process Improvement and Legal Work Product by Silvia Coulter, LawVision Group

Distressed Litigation and Legal Project Management by James Buckley and Aileen Levanton, Qlex

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Survey Results: Do Law Firms Feature Benefits of Non-Lawyer Staff on Their Websites?

By Jean O'Grady on February 7, 2013

Several weeks ago I posted a survey soliciting information on whether law firms highlight information on their non-lawyer staff contributions on the firms public website. All firms are facing increased competitive scrutiny and are often asked to demonstrate how the firm is using innovative approaches to client support and staffing. It would seem logical for firms to use their

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The Decline of Cost Recovery For Online Legal Research: Two Reports Track Trends

By Jean O'Grady on November 16, 2012

Today the ABA Journal published an article “Firms Wave Goodbye to Billing for Online Research Costs” which highlights two recent reports on law firm cost recovery for services such as Lexis and Westlaw. While the article is informative, I take exception to the author’s comment that “firms haven’t historically passed along (online research) discounts

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“Climbing the Value Ladder: Rethinking the Law Library on the Road to 2020” Discussed by Jordan Furlong Keynote Speaker at PLL Summit

By Jean O'Grady on June 18, 2012

Joan Axelroth of Axelroth & Associates and I will be co-chairing the 3rd Annual Private Law Library Summit: The Path to 2020: A Vision for Change, on Saturday, July 21, 2012, Boston, MA. Link here to see the full Summit Agenda.

Jordan Furlong

Our keynote Speaker is Jordan Furlong who will address “Climbing the Value

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Dewey Leboeuf and The Due Diligence Imperative. Let The Job Seekers Beware…Prestige is not enough.

By Jean O'Grady on May 8, 2012

Tonight Above the Law is reporting that “the end is near” for Dewey & Leboeuf and staff departures are scheduled to begin on Friday. It is a story that has become all too familiar, Heller, Brobeck, Howrey, Coudert Brothers… the mysterious alchemy of missteps, hubris and changed law firm economics. Dewey has the distinction of

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Life After Leverage: New Staffing Trends in Law Firms

By Jean O'Grady on January 24, 2012

Firms have been deleveraging (reducing the ratio of associates to partners) for the past decade in response to client pressure to reduce costs. Although the economy is recovering, deleveraging is expected to continue to impact law firm staffing for the foreseeable future.

Life After Leverage ALM Legal Intelligence

American Lawyer Legal Intelligence recently

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Four Imperatives For for 2012: The Legal Information Professional’s Perspective

By Jean O'Grady on December 21, 2011

In today’s Strategic Legal Technology, my friend and former colleague Ron Friedmann posted a Open Letter to BigLaw Managing Partners: Four Imperatives for 2012 and Beyond

Here is my reinterpretation of Ron’s recommendations for thriving the “new normal” which includes both mandates and opportunities for information professionals …with some additional insights for Managing Partners.

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