I spoke with Jonathan Reed, the co-founder and CEO of AdvoLogix, a cloud-based legal case and matter management solution for law firms and legal departments. We discussed the most pressing matter management challenges that law firms and corporate legal departments are facing today, best practices for overcoming them, the benefits that legal teams can expect from streamlining their matter management, and how it affects their overall business processes.
I spoke with Deborah Farone, a law firm marketing advisor who served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Debevoise & Plimpton. She is the author of Best Practices in Law Firm Business Development and Marketing (Practising Law Institute, 2019), which is based on more than 60 interviews with leading law firm leaders and marketers, general counsel, and innovators in the profession.
We discussed the genesis of Best Practices in Law firm Business Development and Marketing, the interesting discussions in the book, the legal industry changes that law firm leaders and marketers need to address, how they are incorporating innovation, their strategic and practice planning mistakes, and how law firms can create a distinct brand in the current competitive climate.
I spoke with Andrew Mellett, the co-founder and CEO of Plexus, the maker of Legal Gateway, a legal operating system used by a wide range of in-house legal teams.
We discussed the genesis of Plexus, how the team identified the need for a legal-specific operating system, trends that are impacting the provision of legal services, how legal challenges differ around the world, the impact of artificial intelligence having on the legal industry, and ways that the role of the general counsel is evolving.
In this difficult market, employers are often looking for creative ways to grow their business and sustain that growth. But, when an adjustment in staffing is necessary during this process, it can potentially create a variety of difficulties. Enter Jay Shepherd, an employment litigator with Prefix, LLC and creator of the award-winning blog, Gruntled Employees, who has just released his new book, Firing at Will: An Unlawyerly Handbook for Management’s Riskiest HR Decision (Apress, 2011). Firing at Will provides real-world advice on how to fire employees. Shepherd says it offers a virtual roadmap doing what he describes is “the riskiest thing you can do at work with your clothes on” in a smooth, drama-free — and lawsuit-free — fashion. Among his many suggestions are to hire well, give employees autonomy, and when it is time to end the relationship, let them leave retain their dignity in the process. Watch our video interview below:
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