In 2018, Hogan Lovells announced a collaboration with Elevate to create a flexible lawyering program to develop a pool of skilled and experienced flexible lawyers to meet capacity for projects or secondments leveraging the Elevated Lawyers platform. Elevate President John Croft said about the collaboration, “Hogan Lovells understands that clients are looking to buy legal services differently. They are looking for law firms […]
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS.7875-7879 OF 2015 BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA …APPELLANT VERSUS A.K. BALAJI AND ORS. …RESPONDENTS WITH CIVIL APPEAL NO.7170 OF 2015 (Association of Indian Lawyers versus M/s. London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and ors.) AND CIVIL […]
By – Heidi K.Gardner How can you transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one? Companies struggle with that question, particularly when knowledge work is the offering. Here’s the underlying tension: Their subject-matter experts must deeply immerse themselves in their disciplines to stay on the cutting edge. And yet that expertise must be integrated […]
– By Ed Poll In theory, there should be little professional distinction between lawyers in a law firm and lawyers practicing in-house at a corporation or other private business. The reality is that both partners and general counsel are lawyers, but they practice law in very different worlds. Whether the issue is hourly rates, cost […]
Collaboration” as applied to lawyers is like “student athlete” to big-time college football and basketball players: more feel-good myth than reality. Because lawyers—like elite athletes—have been taught that competition yields winners and losers; theirs is a zero sum game. Yes, there are teams/firms, and one is encouraged to be a good teammate/colleague, but star ballers […]