News & Events
News & Events
Future Think and Innovation
LMA, Los Angeles, September 2012
Mergers & Integration
LMA,Los Angeles, June 2012
Strategic Planning for Lateral Growth
Legis San Francisco, June 2012
Strategic Considerations for Leading Law Firms
2012 and Beyond
Washington DC
Meeting Clients’ Changing Expectations
Thomson Reuters, London, November 2011
Drivers of Merger
IAG London, October 2010
Challenges for Specialist Firms
Thomson Reuters, London, October 2011
Greater Variability for Greater Fairness?
Partner Compensation
London
Big Law Has Saturated the Biggest U.S. Cities. Where Is the Next Frontier?
Lisa Smith questions whether a city like Boston can be considered insulated anymore because of how many national firms have set up shop there.
From Drinker to Duane Morris, What’s Behind a Wave of Healthier, Faster Law Firm Combinations?
Lisa Smith is quoted. “These were all firms that were performing well, have good rates and strong balance sheets and all those things,” Lisa Smith, a consultant at Fairfax Associates, said of the recent mergers. “these firms are operating from a position of strength in that they didn’t have to do anything.”
Big Law’s Big Entrance into Indiana Driven by Client Demand, Firms Say
Kristin Stark is quoted discussing the impact of merger related growth of larger firms in smaller Midwest legal markets.
Moving Targets: Which Markets Will Attract Law Firms’ Attention in 2020
Lisa Smith is quoted. “We are continuing to see firms anywhere from 100 lawyers to 600 to 700 lawyers feel like they need more scale in order to compete effectively,” says Lisa Smith, a principal at Fairfax Associates. “I think we’ll continue to see consolidation in the form of laterals and groups or small acquisitions or mergers of equal size. Consolidation is going to continue to be big in 2020.”