Law21
"In the 21st century, the practice of law is shaking loose from its traditional moorings and heading out into uncharted territory. Opportunities abound, but so do pitfalls. Most of the old rules won’t apply anymore, while some will matter more than ever. Welcome to the new legal profession, powered by collaboration, innovation, and client service. This is your front-row seat."
Author: Jordan Furlong is editor-in-chief of the Canadian Bar Association’s flagship magazine National and executive editor of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. He also contributes to Slaw.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • Law Schools • International • North America • Canada
Recent Posts from Law21
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Branding, blogging and the attention economy
Every online community loves a meta-conversation, a discussion about the community itself, and the blawgosphere is no exception. But even by those standards, the explosion of posts ignited by a law.com article on women law…
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Globalize your thinking
It’s with some reluctance that I link to The American Lawyer’s Global 100 rankings (or at least, to the article about the rankings — the actual list is subscriber-only). I have an aversion to anything…
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The future of law firm branding
My semi-monthly column is up and running at Slaw. As always, I recommend you go read it there, because I guarantee you’ll find other very cool stuff at Canada’s best legal blog. If you haven’t…
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Law firm capital and the financial crisis
I don’t normally link to articles in National, the magazine I edit — this blog is my personal project and doesn’t necessarily represent my employer’s views, and so I try to keep Law21 and CBA…
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The law firm as middleman
This past week brought word that Axiom Legal is working on opening its fourth office, this one in Chicago. The company is now at 230 lawyers and growing, not bad for an operation that hasn’t…
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Customized casebooks vs. collaborative knowledge
Ready or not, here they come: electronic law texts are gaining momentum. A conference in Seattle this weekend on the future of the legal casebook will discuss how these books can be made widely available…
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A few thoughts about Wall Street
Ottawa is a long way, literally and figuratively, from the financial core of the United States, and my wife is the economics major in the family. So I’m not going to pretend to have any…
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We are all solos
Law firms ask a lot from their lawyers: work hard for long hours, respond immediately to clients and colleagues, accept and promote the firm’s culture, support overall firm profitability, and so forth. But law firms…
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Insights from the College of Law Practice Management
As usual, my trip to the annual meeting of the College of Law Practice Management was more than worth it (even considering that Chicago broke an all-time record for single-day rainfall while we were there).…
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Fear and loathing in the law firm
Many law firms’ insistence on treating their newest associates as adversaries continues to baffle me. Law firms know very well that the associates they hire fresh out of law school (or even after a year…