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• What does your law firm say about you?

  
  The Client Revolution — Authority: 106
  No one ever got fired for buying IBM. So goes the saying. What it really means is that buying a big-name product is generally seen as a safe bet, a lower-risk purchase. A cautious move. The same thing is said about hiring big law firms. No one ever got fired for hiring Cravath. Or Sullivan & Cromwell. Or here in ...
  3 days ago

• One revolutionary year

  
  The Client Revolution — Authority: 106
  Besides ushering in a new decade, today — January 1, 2010 — marks the first anniversary of The Client Revolution . Its been quite a year, both for this blog and for the concept of a client revolution. First, the blog: In its first year, The Client Revolution has had just over 30,000 pageviews. In addition, ...
  6 days ago

• BigLaw: Managing Your Online Reputation: Five Tips for Paranoid Associates

  
  TechnoLawyer Blog — Authority: 474
  Originally published on December 14, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter . With all the advice out there about online social media — Refine Your Use of LinkedIn , Have LinkedIn Groups Lost Their Appeal? , The Value of Twitter , What About the Twitter Naysayers? — to name just a few recent articles, ...
  2 weeks ago

• BigLaw: Above the Law Founder David Lat

  
  TechnoLawyer Blog — Authority: 474
  Originally published on December 7, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter . At age 34, David Lat has already compiled an illustrious set of credentials. After graduating from Yale Law School, Lat clerked on the United States Court of Appeals, worked as an associate at mega-firm Wachtell Lipton, and spent several ...
  3 weeks ago

• What You Should Be Doing With Those Unbillable Hours

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 657
  Last week, we surveyed Above The Law readers about their billable hours for 2009. Over 16% of respondents will be billing less than 1600 hours, and the majority of them are billing less than 1500 hours. Assuming a stingy two weeks of vacation, that means these folks are billing 30 hours per week. Those are not ...
  4 weeks ago

• The numbers behind the lip service: Part Two

  
  The Client Revolution — Authority: 106
  In Part One , we talked about how BigLaw was congratulating itself for slowing the growth of its annual billing-rate increases. The jumping-off point was the National Law Journal s 2009 Billing Survey, in which 190 of the top 250 firms participated. The main story , written by Karen Sloan, requires a subscription. ...
  4 weeks ago

• The numbers behind the lip service: Part One

  
  The Client Revolution — Authority: 106
  That loud noise you hear is the sound of large law firms patting themselves on the back for jumping on the so-called alternative-fee bandwagon. The December 7 issue of the National Law Journal has extended coverage of its 2009 Billing Survey. The lead article pronounces in its headline: "Reality dawns on hourly ...
  4 weeks ago

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