I’ve always wanted to know how lawyers spend their money. Given private-practice firms are known for paying their team well, this article actually provides a little more insight. Does sensible spending make way for spend thriftiness later? It’s okay to admit it: most private-practice lawyers are well paid. But it can be hard to know […]

Law firms have historically been extremely hierarchical places. I do think that hierarchy is flattening out, but Matt Homann has correctly seized on one of the unfortunate anachronisms that still persists in many firms – the binary classification of people in the organization into a) “lawyers” and b) “everyone else”. Other degrees and other skill-sets […]

An interesting article from the ABA Law Practice division asks you to consider the restaurant business as a metaphor for law firms and to identify what type of business you would be running in that context. In my experience, most law firms would consider themselves the high-end type. That leaves gaps – and opportunities – […]