"How the 'Cravath System' Created the Bi-Modal Distribution."- July 23, 2008 Law Professor William D. Henderson (click on photo for bio) Managing Partners and law firm H.R. Executives should contemplate the meaning of Indiana University School of Law's Prof. Bill Henderson's post: "How the 'Cravath System' Created the Bi-Modal Distribution." Professor Henderson builds on the work of NALP (The National Association for Law Placement®, founded in 1971) who published this graph in 2007 referencing 2006 salaries their article called "A Picture Worth...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-economics-how-the-cravath-system-created-the-bimodal-d... A new kind of law firm: Virtual Law Partners- July 17, 2008 Stephanie West Allen breaks a story that we will look back on in ten years as groundbreaking. Have a look (click on the image for Stephanie's post): PUNCHLINE: I can relate having lived in a virtual world for many years. Lawyers in most firms seem to resist the virtual world in favour of the comfort of bricks and mortar and "proximity" - working with someone on the next floor seems easy enough but in another city Many still have trouble with that one. ...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-management-a-new-kind-of-law-firm-virtual-law-partners... When Better Service Is a Bad Thing- July 2, 2008 What is your initial reaction to the title of this blog post I thought it was daft… until I read the complete post by Susan Cramm on June 25, 2008 on her Harvard Business Blog: Having IT Your Way. Here is an excerpt from her blog post: Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to improve services and in turn increase IT’s impact on the business. But in the quest to deliver great service, IT actually may have been disabling rather than enabling the...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-technology-when-better-service-is-a-bad-thing.html |