News & Events
News & Events
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Association of Corporate Counsel, New York, December 2010
Legal Industry Consolidation and Cross Border Mergers
Managing Partner Roundtable, London, October 2010
Legal Industry Outlook
Thomson Reuters,Washington DC, September 2010
Trends in Talent Management
National Conference of Bar Presidents, San Francisco, August 2010
Practice Transition Planning
Canadian Roundtable, Montreal, June 2010
Legal Process Improvement
Hildebrandt Institute, Webinar, June 2010
State of the Legal Industry
Legal Executive Briefing, Pebble Beach, May 2010
Effective Client Relationship Management
World Services Group, Stockholm, May 2010
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.”
In Potential Pepper Hamilton-Troutman Sanders Merger, Scale Can Be a Strategy
Lisa Smith is quoted. “Those are priority growth markets for firms going national, and they are markets where it’s hard to get talent,” Smith said.
Lathrop Gage to Combine with Gray Plant Mooty
Kristin Stark is mentioned as having introduced the two firms to one another.
