Escaping the Leverage Trap: Part 4 of 6 — The BigLaw Pilot
unevenly. Here’s an 18-month pilot framework for building real
Billing Reform
Escaping the Leverage Trap: Part 3 of 6 — The Compensation Reset
still optimize for hours. Here’s why compensation is the linchpin, and a
Escaping the Leverage Trap: Part 2 of 6 — The Practice Area Playbook
the same pace. A 5-tier framework shows what moves when and how to
Two Disruptions, One Industry: Why the Legal Market Is Splitting in Half
At 9:47 AM on February 3, 2026, a managing partner at a mid-sized litigation firm watched roughly $8 billion evaporate from Thomson Reuters’ market cap. By lunch, RELX had shed billions more. The catalyst: Anthropic had launched a legal plugin for Claude.
Escaping the Leverage Trap: Part 1 of 6 — The Forcing Function
On October 8, 2024, Micheal Dineen, vice president of data science at Brightflag, published the number that should have ended every managing partner’s lunch early. Am Law 100 firms had raised their blended billing rates by 10% in a single year, pushing the typical blended rate to $1,057 per hour.
Your Phone Calls Are Being Recorded: The Privilege Risk No One Is Discussing
In November 2019, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, learned that her client had recorded every phone conversation for the previous fourteen months. Not some calls. Every call. Strategy sessions before depositions. Candid assessments of the judge.