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How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Strategic Law Firm Positioning

Attorney at Work

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. For law firms, it’s critical to gather intelligence about real-time trends that are creating sharp and sudden changes as well as longer-term trends affecting the overall health of your markets.

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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

Attorney at Work

Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. But critics contend the rule contributes to low innovation and the high cost of services and is a considerable factor in the country’s access to justice problem.

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Building a Successful Hybrid Work Environment for Your Law Firm

Attorney at Work

Lawyers have been working “remotely” for decades — from the courts, in their cars, from suburban outposts, at clients’ offices and, yes, from home. As firms make plans to return to the office in the coming months, many are looking to adopt remote work 20% to 50% of the time. Now we just call them lawyers.)

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Time’s Up: Will Law Firms Say Goodbye To Billable Hour In The (Gen)AI Era?

Above The Law

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services

Attorney at Work

As lawyers, we are in a service industry. However, I suspect most of us did not sign up to be on call to provide legal services 24-7. Urgent matters are those that require immediate attention, such as a client who tells me on Wednesday that they have a filing due to the court by Friday. My urgent rate will be $400/hour.

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Federal judge authorizes IRS tax evasion inquiry involving offshore legal services

JURIST

The court granted the IRS permission to serve “John Doe” summonses on 10 entities including Federal Express Corporation and its affiliates, DHL Express, UPS, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, HSBC Bank USA, Citibank NA, Wells Fargo Bank NA, and Bank of America NA.

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Morning Docket: 01.13.25

Above The Law

* Will the rest of the Big 4 follow KPMG's lead into legal services? American Lawyer ] * Associates getting squeezed by new firm hiring model. [ ABA Journal ] * TikTok warns of grave constitutional consequences if Supreme Court goes through with ban. Reuters ] * Rare three-way law firm merger.

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