Scalability (what it is, its value) is not intuitive to law students or lawyers. Crickets every time. Also, the metaphors (every important) age out quickly.

General Counsel at Moderna, Fannie Mae, and Cisco provide some remarkable quotes about new styles of leadership. Kudos to Scott Westfahl and Anusia Gillespie for pulling these insights together. legalevolution.org/2022/11/q-how-… #leadership #NewLaw

A true innovator/early adopter judge. Worth reading: "Louisiana Judge Schlegel, Founder of an 'Online Court,' Explains Why Zoom Doesn't Cut It" via Law.com law.com/2022/11/04/lou…

Legal industry, keep you eyes on this: "US accounting industry split on taking private equity cash" ft.com/content/221830…

📢 happy #friyay #lawtwitter 📅 save the date, I'm hosting my first ever #TwitterSpace on Nov 17 at 12pm ET 💬 I'll be talking #future of #legal #talent with Ben Allgrove and Jay Connolly of Baker McKenzie 🥳 so fun to get the band back together

Sometime in next 5-15 yrs, the term "legal professional" will include lawyers + technologists, data scientists, project managers, and process & design experts who design, build, run legal systems. This essay by Ken Jones is a snapshot of this gradual sea. legalevolution.org/2022/11/the-ex…

When it comes to law firm strategic planning that fails to deliver, it's hard to be original. Patrick J. McKenna shares the most common mistakes. #highprotein #longform legalevolution.org/2022/11/10-fat…

One of the few virtues of getting old is seeing these cycles.

If we assume that withdrawing from the USN rankings is a moral decision with business implications, we might want to look at the numbers. Here are the dollars and math behind YLS's decision to withdraw. #specialpost legalevolution.org/2022/11/the-do…

30+ years in, the legal profession's leading BD consultant, David H. Freeman, digitally transforms himself. That's today's feature post. Great case study for the rest of us. #innovator #earlyadopter #highprotein #sundayread David Freeman legalevolution.org/2022/11/a-bett…

🎉 Meet the Judicial Innovation Fellowship 🎉, by Jason Tashea open.substack.com/pub/justicetec…

An early Christmas present to law firm leaders via Patrick J. McKenna's December leadership column. 41 sample feedback criteria, which is half of hard but valuable process. #highprotein #notintuitive legalevolution.org/2022/12/should…

Those on the NewLaw journey know they're playing a long game of idealism and faith in a better way. Anusia Gillespie gives us a glimpse of this internal dialogue. #authentic #highprotein legalevolution.org/2022/12/q-newl…

Legal deserts plague many parts of the US. In this week's feature essay, James Teufel and Michael Gallo size the problem and discover that it's solvable with relatively modest resources. #sundayread #highprotein #longform #maps #leadership legalevolution.org/2022/12/the-mi…

A lawyer in an NJ courthouse laments, "I did not see a single person. ....Those halls used to be packed and bustling." Worth reading: law.com/2022/12/14/i-d…

Tomorrow we'll publish LexFusion's Second Annual Legal Market in Review. To fully manage expectations, D. Casey Flaherty offers this #highprotein #nosugar preview essay. #longform #sundayread #spinachforlawyers legalevolution.org/2023/01/previe…

Wonderful to get this recognition. Thanks Ron.

First time we got both Tweets of the Week. Many thanks Ron!

Some early empirical research on the second and third-order effects of remote work: "What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’" nytimes.com/2023/04/24/bus…

A post-mortem in four charts: legalevolution.org/2024/11/a-post…