Most legal matters are local and only require one or two attorneys. Yes, big law firms will always be essential for some bet-the-company and multi-district matters. And, yes the largest corporate legal departments will continue to leverage their volume into affordable rates at the one-stop firms.
However, most business and corporate clients have little reason to pay full-menu prices when equally good lawyers can be found a la carte at small specialty firms that charge less and, arguably, work harder for their business. The case for these "microboutiques" grows daily as more and more of them are being started by former big-firm lawyers. We make that case in this 4-minute video.
If you hire lawyers for your company, we'd like to know what you think.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Why I Started This Blog
There are many blogs for lawyers but few for their business and corporate clients. I am moving into this space in order to stimulate and champion the emerging buyers' market for corporate legal services. This blog is for family-owned companies, C-level executives and in-house attorneys, all of whom I invite to join this movement.
Many of our discussions will flow from the Association of Corporate Counsel's ambitious Value Challenge initiative, launched in 2008. Their goal is to "reconnect the value and cost of legal services", and ACC has made great strides in that campaign. I participated in their early workshops and chronicled their progress through annual roundtables that I produced for a legal media company in San Francisco. Much of what I learned through that work was incorporated into a proprietary poll that measures attorney performance. The metrics from that poll will serve as topics in this blog.
You can learn more about me here and about my company here.
If you hire attorneys for your company, I invite you to subscribe to this blog and to actively share your experiences with the rest of us.
Many thanks.
Many of our discussions will flow from the Association of Corporate Counsel's ambitious Value Challenge initiative, launched in 2008. Their goal is to "reconnect the value and cost of legal services", and ACC has made great strides in that campaign. I participated in their early workshops and chronicled their progress through annual roundtables that I produced for a legal media company in San Francisco. Much of what I learned through that work was incorporated into a proprietary poll that measures attorney performance. The metrics from that poll will serve as topics in this blog.
You can learn more about me here and about my company here.
If you hire attorneys for your company, I invite you to subscribe to this blog and to actively share your experiences with the rest of us.
Many thanks.
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