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December 2010
Competing With Your Advisors
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Thomson Reuters recently announced that it was buying legal process outsourcing provider Pangea3 for a price that has been estimated at between $35 and $40 million. At the same time, Thomson put up for sale BAR-BRI, the bar exam training and preparation company it purchased several years ago. And several days earlier Indo-American LPO UnitedLex bought LawScribe…
Washington College of Law Annual Fellows Meeting
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At the Washington College of Law Annual Fellows Meeting and 2010 Futures Conference at American University, several presentations made on various challenges confronting the legal sector are worth noting.
Developments in the Global Market
Peter Zeughauser, Chairman of the Zeughauser Group, predicted that "demand for legal services long term will grow" and that the U.S. will be a…
Resizing the Legal Workforce: What It Means for You
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Seat-of-the-pants projections by Hildebrandt as to the loss of associate positions over the next 5-7 years were published this fall to much hullabaloo. By their lights, a very specific 27% of the 65,000 AmLaw200 nonpartner positions, or approximately 17,500, are likely to be cut or recategorized downward under the influence of the current market’s prevailing…