LinkedIn: Do I have to? Some Resistance Continues

         Published in JD Supra Perspectives 2017

According to the 2016 American Bar Association Technology Report, “Taking control of your online presence is a necessity, and there are few better ways to do so than social media. Used carefully, social media can give your firm a voice, amplify your professional reputation, and help drive new business.”

Yet many attorneys and other professional service providers continue to avoid this reality. Social media and content marketing are this new reality but excuses and resistance to change still abound. With so many different social media platforms let’s narrow the focus of this conversation to the #1 platform for business – LinkedIn.

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Resistance Continues but the Business of Law is Transforming

                Published in JD Supra Perspectives 2017

“Before you know it, what once seemed like crazy ideas will become the new normal.” ~Mary O’Carroll, head of legal operations, Google.

The Resistance Movement

It has been said that change is the only constant in the world. Nagging realities in the legal marketplace continue to place pressure on law firms, of all sizes, to confront the demand for inevitable changes.

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Are Legal Operations Transitioning the Business of Law?

Stephen Balcomb, Senior Director of Legal Operations at Qualcomm and CLOC member, will be the lead panelist at the July 20th Breakfast Roundtable about Legal Operations. Please join us at 7:30 am at the law firm of Knobbe Martens in Irvine, CA, to explore the inevitable impact of change in the practice of law. Altman Weil’s 2016 Law Firms in Transition reports, “Despite pockets of true innovation, most firms are choosing to proceed with lawyerly caution in the midst of a market that is being reinvented around them.”

 

Additional panelists, roundtable details and registration can be found here.

CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Conference Closes

Mary O’Carroll, Head of Legal Operations, Google, posted her closing remarks from the May, 2017 CLOC Conference telling attendees that legal operation changes are happening now.  Law firms need to take head.

Ms. O’Carroll stated, “Today, I’m here to say: We are no longer on the verge of anything. We have arrived”.

Read Ms. O’Carroll’s 2017 Call to Action

You can find her complete 2017 Closing Remarks here: