By Andrew McDermott Why are lawyers so expensive?  This was a question posed to the pundits at Law Crossing. It’s a question floating in the back of your client’s mind.  It’s a question that’s often brushed off.  But it shouldn’t be. That question rears its ugly head again at a

“It’s foolish to follow trends.” After all, you have a law firm to run. You have client matters to attend to, employees you’ll need to manage and the logistics of successful practice management. Trends are the absolute last thing on your mind. But trends management is one of the first

“I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.” Then-FBI director Robert Mueller shared these sobering words at the 2012

It’s the inevitable event. The one consistent theme in the legal industry that continues to threaten attorneys and law firms. Attorneys do their very best to resist this threatening event yet none are successful. In the end, those who resist, fail. How is this event so troublesome that it threatens

It’s an unpreventable disaster.  One hundred six million people have been affected by the Capital One data breach. A former Amazon employee exploited a vulnerability in Capital One’s cloud system using it to steal sensitive personal and financial data from their customers. There’s no way anyone could have seen this

Several shifts are taking place in the legal industry. Some of these shifts are more obvious, while others are progressing quietly behind the scenes. Are you ready for these changes? For most firms, it’s business as usual. Only it isn’t business as usual for clients. Many of these clients have