Last week, I participated in Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute’s 22nd Annual Law Firm Marketing Partner Forum at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. What a great conference. Outstanding speakers, valuable and practical content, lively interaction among the participants, all in breathtakingly beautiful setting. I was delighted to be part of it.
I was particularly struck by two experiences at the Forum.
Read MoreThe financial results reporting season has begun in earnest. Last week, Citi Private Bank and Hildebrandt Consulting released their “2016 Citi/Hildebrandt Client Advisory.”
Read MoreVirtually every speaker at the Summit recognized the urgent need to improve the delivery of legal service in the United States. The need is particularly acute in the case of legal service for individuals, for which “access to justice” is the shorthand, but indeed which extends to all dimensions of law.
Read MoreWe launched the Law Firm Financial Forum to promote a thoughtful and informed examination of the vexing financial questions that law firm leaders confront.
Read MoreThe American Bar Association(ABA) took profoundly important action last week at its ABA Midyear Meeting in San Diego by adopting a conceptual framework for state regulation of legal service. The framework was expressed as a set of “Model Regulatory Objectives for the Provision of Legal Service,” denominated ABA Resolution 105. It is the first time the ABA has articulated objectives for regulation in this way.
Read MoreThomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute conducted its 5th Annual Asia Pacific Legal Executive Briefing last week in Hong Kong. More than 70 law firm leaders, including representatives from leading firms in 14 Asia Pacific countries, attended. It was an outstanding gathering, from the opening reception to the closing session, with stimulating and informative panels and presentations, with ample time for the participants to make and reinforce relationships and to share views on the issues of the day.
Read MoreWe brought together leaders from the legal departments of a diverse set of iconic and market-leading technology firms — Google, Apple, 23andMe and Lyft — to discuss how they navigate the labyrinth of the world’s many regulatory schemes, as disruptors breaking new ground with the services they deliver.
Read MoreThomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute joined with the Stanford Law School to conduct The Emerging Legal Technology Forum last week in New York City. It was a wonderful event.
Stanford Law Professor Phil Malone and I opened the Forum with an overview of the promise of technology to improve the way legal service is delivered. We sounded an essential chord for the Forum: Quality—technology enables higher quality of legal service, and not simply greater efficiency.
Read MoreWe conducted our 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum (the LFL Forum) last week in New York. As it has been from the beginning, it was wonderful event.
I founded the LFL Forum back in 1996 to provide a much-needed setting for law firm leaders to come together to talk about the most vexing issues they confronted.
Read MoreMost discussion of the future of law (including my blog posts) focuses on how different things will be. That’s appropriate. We need to understand the changes the world of tomorrow will require. We should not lose sight of the constants, however. Some of the elements of law practice which lawyers value most and find most rewarding—such as quality of service and client relationships—will continue to be at least as important in the world of tomorrow as they are today. Indeed, those two elements are worth noting in particular.
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