Once upon a time, I would have taken the Sidley Austin Word Processing Department back behind the bleachers and gotten it pregnant. To be able to drop off marked-up docs at 1 a.m. and have edits turned by 10 a.m. — assuming the slackers who deigned to leave at midnight hadn’t given WP too much...Read More

I’ve always thought it was pretty cool that as attorneys our minds have been trained to the point where they can be billed out the same way a tiller or a factory drill can. Sometimes I wish I could double-dip by billing out other parts of my body while somebody’s getting my mind. (Surely there’s...Read More

In SmallLaw, no ones cares what grades you got in law school. No one cares if you were on a journal. Few people even care where you went to school. It could be Harvard or Thomas Cooley. Doesn’t matter. When I opened my own practice and started making pitches to clients, I learned quickly that...Read More

For the second year, ATL and our friends at Good2BSocial have researched the social media practices of the largest U.S. law firms. Our goal was to rank the nation’s top 100 law firms on their effectiveness in using content marketing and social media. Today, we are publishing a white paper, The 2014 Social Law Index,...Read More