Law firms are facing some challenging headwinds. Demand for legal services has been sluggish at best recently (PDF) while rate pressure from clients and rising headcount and expenses are pressuring…
The U.S. legal market appears poised to end 2011 with a fairly sluggish overall performance and with mounting pressures on law firm profitability. Although showing signs of recovery during the…
Will an eReader or the latest iPad be among the gifts you purchase or give this holiday season? Technology’s dizzing pace has led to a variety of training and research…
In this ever-changing and leaner economic environment, corporate legal departments expect outside counsel to deliver more effective and efficient legal services at a lower cost. Simultaneously, in-house counsel are investigating…
Resourcefulness and efficiency are no longer attributes that set firms apart – they’re requirements for firms to be successful. Now more than ever, legal departments are demanding greater visibility into…
Attorney Jessica is headed to court for an important hearing. However, this trip is different than previous ones when she would haul multiple folders, notebooks and sometimes even boxes of…
The term Legal Process Outsourcing conjures up all sorts of images and thoughts. While some may envision shuffling reams of work to an invisible third party in hopes of cutting…
The business side of the legal industry is undergoing a whirlwind of changes. Pressure from clients to demonstrate clear value, as well as increasing globalization of the law firm market…
Litigators spend considerable time gathering, organizing and searching huge volumes of case information from multiple sources – discovery documents, legal research, evidence, transcripts and so on. At the same time,…
For many years, rate growth was the lifeblood of firms. Hourly billing rates increased annually like clockwork, and accounted for a significant portion of firm revenue growth. But rate growth…
