Recently, I was asked to repost a prior post in which I shared my insights as a career-long litigation. Here it is, with a couple of changes.
Spend a minute and ask yourself why you don’t outsource problem solving for
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We have to change the way we think about change. To get to the Next Normal and succeed in that new era, we are going to have to change. A lot. As a profession, we are, to be honest, not
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Perhaps by Memorial Day, college presidents and their leadership teams will face what will likely be the most important decision of their collective tenures: when to open the dormitories and classrooms on their campuses following the COVID-19 crisis. Even though
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Guest post, by Philip Harris
The current environment is spawning conversations about reducing costs as a means of responding to the loss of revenue that many businesses are experiencing. Many businesses already have laid off and furloughed employees and cut
The Next Normal: Moving from “Just Lawyers” to Multi-Professional Teams
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I was born in Detroit and grew up in the heyday of the auto industry. So, when I first heard Ron Baker speak about Lee Iacocca, I listened with great interest. Iacocca was a Detroit icon, first for his trailblazing
The Next Normal: Law Departments Learn to Prioritize Spend Based on Fundamental Investment Analysis
Every day, businesses prioritize. They invest in one thing, not another. They fix one problem, but defer fixing another. The build one facility, but not another. They pursue one strategy to the exclusion of others. These decisions are almost always
The Next Normal
From 2010 until 2016, I was a columnist for the online ABA Journal’s The New Normal column. I was invited to start the column as a result of the creation of Valorem Law Group in 2008. We started a law