While celebrating International Women's Day, it's a reminder to think about how our workforce has changed over the past few decades. Even this past month, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates rejected a measure to make bar passage harder for law schools. Their reason:...
Read MoreMove over IT department. Somebody call legal. From hacks to crashes, it’s not so unusual for a data breach or a security threat to completely shut down company businesses. And these days, it’s not a question of if, but when. So, companies have been taking notice. And...
Read MorePreparing Your Law Firm’s Future BY DAVID FRENCH My father was always a planner. He would arrive at the airport three hours in advance of his flight time. And he had a 10-year supply of his daily vitamins. He had once attended the University of Arizona College of...
Read MoreAlternative Billing in the Post-Recession It is very unlikely that a seasoned business owner today would disagree that the economic downfall of 2007 has changed the business landscape drastically. Decision making – at all levels – is fiscally driven and the legal industry spends countless hours...
Read MoreIn case you missed the event on May 26th, D. French Advisors hosted an enlightening roundtable discussion with some of Phoenix's prominent law leaders. Thank you to the panelists and everyone who attended the event. During the course of the event, all of the panelists shared a common...
Read MoreIn the American business environment, every company will need a lawyer at one point or another, but just how to find and retain that legal counsel can be a source of debate. We all know that one person, or perhaps you are that person, who started...
Read Moreby David R. French There is a reality to law firms, one that everyone knows about but that is often ignored, in hopes it won’t happen to them. It is the obligatory phasing out of senior attorneys as they enter the sunset of their careers. Law firms...
Read MoreIt's now easier to move a legal practice to AZ: The average high March temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, is a comfortable 77 degrees. Meanwhile, the Midwest is again blanketed in snow. When you next speak to old law school classmates or friends who are...
Read MoreMost people accept that advancing artificial intelligence and the spread of robotic automation will change, and in many cases replace blue-collar jobs, like factory work; but intellectually-intensive or white-collar work, surely, cannot be in jeopardy. That opinion is changing, fast, including within the legal profession, where the trends are even overcoming technological...
Read MoreFor perspective on the following, please navigate to the expandable map below. Much becomes lost to time. The earliest recorded footnotes in the practice of law in Phoenix are the election in 1881 and death in 1896 of the city’s first Town Marshall. Contemporaneously, Arizona’s first...
Read More