Law Firm Competitive Intelligence

On Friday, October 4, 2013, I presented a TED-style talk at the 2013 Futures Conference presented by the College of Law Practice Management and Chicago-Kent School of Law .  As a Fellow of Co...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-future-of-legal-services-from_7.html

Lately, legal services pundits are finding more excoriation than exceptionalism in the legal marketplace. Some believe BigLaw is dead, dying, or taking too long to die , while others say that’s...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/07/law-in-time-of-ideology.html

THE NEW REPUBLIC’S latest cover story , “The Last Days of Big Law – You Can’t Imagine the Terror When the Money Dries Up” by NOAM SCHEIBER, is a dishy article about the international la...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/07/im-shocked-shocked.html

The only reason for a law firm to invest in competitive intelligence is to help its decision makers prepare to benefit from (or avoid the dangers in) near- and long-term opportunities and threats...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/03/you-know-your-firms-in-serious-trouble.html

Every four or five years, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) publishes a Global Trends report. And now Global Trends 2030 has just been released. A short (5-page) briefing can be found ...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/03/global-trends-2030-released-by-nic.html

Ignoring the ballyhoo about “The New Normal” and the debate about whether this is BigLaw’s end of days, most seem to agree that the US legal market is overcrowded. It suffers from too many...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/02/hastening-zombielaws-collapseand-why.html

Last Friday, The Recorder published an article about FY 2012 Am Law early results:  “Revenue Growth Modest at Many Firms, But Profits Surge.”    Bylined by Julia Love , the article discus...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2013/02/pulling-away-from-pack-or-powering-with.html

As a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, I am pleased to inform my blog’s readers that the College is now accepting entries for the 2012 InnovAction Awards .  My friend and Co...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-innovaction-awards.html

‘Tis the season again of big law firm financial reporting. Am Law Daily’s doing a great job this year of collecting and collating Am Law 100 and 200 firms’ FY 2011 financial results by main...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2012/02/am-law-100-and-200-fy2011-financial.html

Below are some preliminary basic 2010 financial performance data for 52 large US law firms, as their results have been reported in the legal and mainstream press. The firms are ordered by profits...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/03/fy-2010-update-52-us-law-firms-report.html

Like many law firm watchers, I’ve been gathering information about US law firms’ financial results from reports in the legal press. To date, I’ve collected the following info about gross fi...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/03/fy-2010-us-law-firm-financial.html

Twelve days ago at this blog, I said the U.S. intelligence community’s failure to predict the pan-Arab democratic rebellion was evidence of our common, human reluctance to recognize tipping po...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/02/intelligence-blind-spots-failures-and.html

PROLOGUE I have long considered, lectured and written about law firm competitive intelligence from the perspective of CI prepared and used in service to the firm’s goals as a business entity. ...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-is-not-what-i-meant-by-law-firm.html

“The past is the best predictor of the future” is one of humankind’s most reliable decision-making aids. It’s a highly useful heuristic, except when it collides with sudden changes in the...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/02/our-reluctance-to-recognize-tipping.html

The New York Times's weekend magazine article, “Dealing with Assange and the Wikileaks Secrets,” by Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, is a delicious, dishy apologia for the newspap...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-york-times-vs-wikileaks.html

First confession -- My name is Ann Lee Gibson, and I am an imperfect and intermittent blogger. Work, family, life, sleep and fun all conspire to keep me from being a daily, weekly or even monthly...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2011/01/two-confessions.html

Note: The following is the latest in the current blog series about analysis and CI. It is excerpted from my new book, Competitive Intelligence: Improving Law Firm Strategy and Decision Making. Yo...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2010/11/be-more-precise-about-uncertainty.html

Note: The following post is taken from my new book, Competitive Intelligence: Improving Law Firm Strategy and Decision Making. You can learn more about the book here . If you have spent any time...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2010/10/ci-insights-are-actionable-relevant.html

As many of you know, I've recently written a book about law firm CI. It has now been published in the UK by the Ark Group / Managing Partner magazine. My book is titled Competitive Intelligence...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-law-firm-ci-book-published.html

The ABA Journal today blogged about a recently published social psychology experiment that found the apparent dominance / maturity of law firms' managing partners' faces (as rated by college stu...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2010/10/social-psychology-and-alpha-lawyers.html

I'm blogging again, thanks to Russell Lawson who emailed me and said, "Just do it." The following is the first in a series of posts on the topic of analysis -- that much too mysterious process t...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2010/10/say-what.html

Name: Emily C. Rushing Title: Competitive Intelligence Specialist Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP Since: September 2008 Profiles: You can find Emily at LinkedIn and Twitter . Q: What is your job d...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2009/04/ci-pro-interview-with-emily-c-rushing.html

Here’s my fourth and final post in a series offering findings from analyses I performed last fall as my law firm clients were considering how best to respond to the economic downturn. Seven mon...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2009/04/law-firm-economic-cycles-part-iii_20.html

This is my third post in a four-part series that offers findings from analyses I performed last fall as my law firm clients were considering how best to respond to the economic downturn. Seven mo...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2009/04/law-firm-economic-cycles-part-iii.html

This post continues the serialization begun yesterday of findings from analyses I performed last fall as my law firm clients were considering how best to respond to the economic downturn. To help...

http://lawfirmci.blogspot.com/2009/04/law-firm-economic-cycles-part-ii.html