Insights

AI Steals Trust When Enabled

The legal services sector is predicated on trust. Willfully enabling AI to hone its learning based on who and what you are is theft of the best of what makes you “you”.

Why Law Firms Keep Failing at Succession Planning and How to do it Right — Canadian Lawyer

Succession planning in law firms is most often reactive with many being better at planning for growth than for exits.

Fearless — A Required State of Being

The global legal services market needs optimistic contrarians: strong people who think fast and clearly, and whose actions are decisive and fearless.

Big Four Fear is Unfounded

Fearmongering and fretting about impacts of the Big Four on the legal services sector are the equivalent of tilting at windmills and just as pointless.

Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market — Expansion or Contraction?

Strategic and profitable growth through either expansion or contraction is crucial to securing and leveraging your future success and solvency in the legal services market. Part Two of a two-part series on Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market and the foundation for the second half of my September 2024 keynote address to the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association’s Masterclass in Calgary.

Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market — What’s Next? How Do We Cope?

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Part One of a two-part series on Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market and the foundation for the first half of my September 2024 keynote address to the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association’s Masterclass in Calgary.

Inuksuit and Invention

2024 was a year of inuksuit and invention. In 2025, I expect acceleration of inuksuk-like signals across global legal markets that present as thoughts, events, and repercussions all of which spark inventive action.

A Personal Tribute to a Polar Bear

While I love what I do professionally, my personal passion is the wellbeing of polar bears. Inukshuk was a polar bear who touched my heart and changed my life.

Artificial Intelligence, Law Firms, and the Marx Brothers

Histrionics around artificial intelligence and its impact on legal services is as nonsensical as a crazy collision between a couple of Marx Brothers movies. Wacky, zany, and clear over the top.

Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market

I am delighted to be delivering the Keynote address at the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyer Association’s MASTERCLASS 2024 on September 24 in Calgary. I will be speaking about growth in the legal services market, forecasting future challenges, and advising on strategy.

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