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Is the Billable Hour Feasible?

Nicole Black’s new endeavor Legal Tweets is keeping track of a conversation about whether the billable hour is still feasible for law firms. It’s an interesting discussion, and I think it wouldn’t hurt for you to go check it out and follow the links to the different ideas. Now, I definitely think there are places…

Some Things Don’t Change

The other day, I spent an hour with Cheryl Harrison, meeting up as part of her Fast Friends experiment. (Which is an interesting experiment in ad of itself.) One of the things we were discussing was the various ways people connect online now. I was regaling my new, young, friend with tales of having to…

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Blame the Tools

Over the years I’ve worked with technology, I’ve listened to many, many complaints about the technological tools that folks are using in their work. Everything from poor interfaces, slow response times, and various limitations of the tools. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen though, are the folks who get bad data from a…