The MSO Barbarians at the Gate: The Self-Regulating Ethics That Opened the Gate
market. The profession’s self-regulating ethics opened the gate.
Rule 5.4
The Private Equity Playbook: What Happened to Physicians Is Coming for Lawyers (AI is accelerating it)
5.4 faces the same fate. The MBA playbook that gutted physician autonomy
The Gathering Storm: How Private Equity Works, Why It Matters, and What It Means for Legal Services
industry is next. How PE works, what it destroys, and what attorneys
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.