Articles Posted in Alternative Legal Services Providers (ALSPs)

The Point I once asked Ben W. Heineman, Jr., legendary GE General Counsel under Jack Welch during the years I served as an executive at GE: “What’s the one key to managing resources in a company’s law function?” Heineman’s unhesitating reply: “Segment! Segment! Segment!” As he explains in his book,…

The Point The default mode for law firms consists of custom-made work, done manually by one or more attorneys, in response to a one-off request. That’s been true for decades — and it remains true as law firms deploy recent law graduates at hundreds per hour to do low-level grunt…