Month: January 2009
The declining value of (legal) news
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 is the guy when it comes to commenting on the new landscape for news publishing. Back in May last year he posted about The declining value of redundant news content on the web. I’ll illustrate his point with a UK legal news example. Here are just a few headlines from […]
What are lawyers worth?
I’m following with interest the prolific debate on alternative billing. Read three in particular: Jordan Furlong’s Billing thread on Law21 Toby Brown’s Alternative Billing thread on 3 Geeks and a Law Blog Ron Baker’s Value Billing thread on the VeraSage Institute Blog Moving to value billing from the comfort of the billable hour may not […]
Pushing the boat out
There’s a lengthy discussion on Real Lawyers Have Blogs on Why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website. For me it boils down to this. Effective blogging is you – or a group including you – (as Kevin says) “providing valuable information, insight, and commentary to your target audience”, so don’t […]
Who dares wins
You’d think that a Big Law associate on £150K p.a. would be bright enough to figure that she should use a pseudonym when publishing her raunchy novel on the web. Not so Deidre Dare, [ex-]Senior Associate at Allen & Overy, Russia [see update]. But could it be she didn’t see her future at A & […]
The future of lawyers
First published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, January 2009. In The End of Lawyers? (Oxford University Press) Richard Susskind challenges the legal profession to ask what elements of their current work could be undertaken more quickly, more cheaply, more efficiently or to a higher quality using new methods. He makes his case firstly by […]
