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Kevin O’Keefe: Smart Lawyers Will Use Twitter for Client Development
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Imagine 15 years ago as a practicing lawyer taking 30 minutes in the morning to skim news headlines from 400 or 500 reliable news sources you selected because they offered news and commentary related to your work as well as monitoring keywords relevant to your area of law (clients' names, subjects, cases, and the like) for their use in the news and private commentary.
Larry Ribstein: Ethics Rules Are Spinning BigLaw Into ‘Death Spiral’
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Ethical rules governing lawyers are designed to maintain the illusion that law practice is something other than a business.
The illusion has always fit uneasily with reality, but never more than today.
Twitter: Waste of Time or Marketing Goldmine? (Live Debate)
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In a live Web radio show, Twitter extraordinaire Rex Gradeless faced off with legal marketing expert Larry Bodine, debating the merits of Twitter for lawyers.
Richard Susskind: Disaster Ahead for Lawyers Unwilling to Change
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In my book, The End of Lawyers?, I claim that the future for lawyers could be prosperous or disastrous. I predict that those who are unwilling to change their working practices and extend their services will struggle to survive.
Paul Lippe: Preview of The 2011 Legal Landscape
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I appreciate being invited to participate in this “Rebel-Fest,” but want to start by taking issue with the notion of being a “Rebel.” My first boss was Senator Moynihan, D-N.Y., and he used to say that “words matter.” Labeling folks who want to restore the best part of the legal profession as “Rebels” is, I would suggest, part of the problem.
Leah Cooper: Passage to India
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Besides being an executive at a multinational mining and resources group, Leah Cooper is a wife and mother to two young boys. She meets all of those obligations with creative solutions, friends say, and that experience influenced her recent outsourcing plan that sends basic legal tasks to a team of lawyers in India.
Evan R. Chesler: Billable Buster?
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Even early in his law career, Evan R. Chesler came across as the go-to guy. Senior partners at Cravath, Swaine & Moore remember, when he was a junior litigation associate, that he was the one saving documents that disappeared in the teletype machine—even when the steno staff couldn’t. And today’s clients say he’s the first one they think of when faced with a complex legal problem.
Jeffrey Carr: Business Unusual
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GC Jeffrey W. Carr went looking for a few good lawyers this year—lawyers who want to earn more than their hourly rate. By early August, he had them.
Playing with ACES
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For the past four years, Jeffrey Carr says, FMC Technologies Inc. has been using versions of ACES for 100 percent of its legal work in the U.S. and for most of its international work. Carr says the company pays its lawyers with a Visa purchasing card, which ensures payment can arrive in as few as three days from invoice.
Ralph Baxter: The Re-Engineer
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On the prowl last year for a merger partner in Germany, Ralph Baxter of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe approached Hölters & Elsing’s Siegfried Elsing through a legal consultant with an invitation to meet in Paris for dinner.
