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. The legal industry stands at a critical […]
The first installment of The General Counsel Report 2025 reads like something Indiana Jones dusted off from an ancient tomb. A relic of a long, lost civilization known as the In-House Lawyers, circa the summer of 2024. The report, put together by FTI Consulting and Relativity based on interviews conducted by Ari Kaplan Advisors and […]
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In Season 9, Episode 4 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” I had the pleasure of diving into the world of AI, ethics, and law firm risk management with Jeff Cunningham, a general counsel specializing in ethics and risk management for law firms. This lively discussion covered everything from the Apple logo on his blog […]
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In Season 9, Episode 4 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” I had the pleasure of diving into the world of AI, ethics, and law firm risk management with Jeff Cunningham, a general counsel specializing in ethics and risk management for law firms. This lively discussion covered everything from the Apple logo on his blog […]
Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Trump administration turns to US Supreme Court in bid to fire agency head (Andrew Chung, Reuters) First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court (Adam Liptak, The New York […]
We may have just celebrated Valentine’s Day, but this Biglaw firm is sparing no love for its Beijing office. That’s right, yet another Biglaw firm is shutting down an office in China. This is the third large law firm to close the doors of a Chinese office in 2025. As noted by Bloomberg Law, Cleary […]
(Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) * Eric Adams case finally dropped and it seems like the move came after a soon-to-retire DOJ official signed off in order to give colleagues — likely planning to resign in protest over this — time to look for new jobs. Find yourself a coworker like that. […]
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