One of the most thought provoking questions I think I was ever asked was “Do you fear the future?”. And it must have been running through the minds of the 530 or so delegates at the LawTech Futures conference in Victoria yesterday as we listened to two leading futurologists. Charles Read More
At the recent LawTech Futures conference, two clients (Nils Briendstein of Invensys and Kevin Green of IBM UK Limited) discussed with two leading legal service providers (John Young of Hogan Lovells and Abby Ewen of Simmons & Simmons) the role of technology in future lawyer-client relationships. The following key points Read More
I’ve just finished writing a detailed review of this book "How to be great at the stuff you hate: The straight talking guide to persuading, networking and selling" which will appear shortly in PM magazine. Here are some headline thoughts and a few more personal observations. Any book which starts Read More
As well as working with some “BigLaw” firms, a lot of my time is spent working with medium and small law firms on a variety of strategy, business development and relationship management projects. When it comes to the topic of developing legal products or services – and particularly the area Read More
Calista recently produced a report called “Top 200 law firm survey…Twitter” covering the period up to 1st November 2011. It’s key findings were: There are 284 Twitter accounts with nearly 86,500 followers held by the top 20 law firms (190 in the top 100) 24% of top 100 firms are not Read More