Resources & Surveys

Survey Says: Ante Up, Lawyers

We love surveys.  All these years working with lawyers and we’ve come to feel that data is boss.  Ideas are exciting, sure, but facts are everything.  And when it comes to market data on the legal services industry, year after year, we’ve watched figures weave a certain narrative.  Lately, it’s not a cheerful story. The […]

Insights from the In-Crowd: Survey Provides Road Map for Stronger Law Firm Marketing

We’re just now beginning to process the incredible implications of the 4th annual State of Digital and Content Marketing survey, which findings were revealed last month. The survey, commissioned by Greentarget, ALM Legal Intelligence, and Zeughauser Group, polled in-house counsel and law firm CMOs on the consumption and production of…well…marketing stuff. There is so much to learn […]

Citi Survey: Law Firm Leaders Cautiously Optimistic About 2014

Spring has sprung (we hope), the first quarter of 2014 is now behind us and a recent survey conducted by Citi indicates that law firm managing partners are feeling confident in the state of both the legal industry and the broader economy. As part of its quarterly Law Watch Managing Partner Confidence Index survey, Citi […]

$1000/hour? Raise Standards, Not Rates

Deep breath: The National Law Journal’s Billing Survey just came out. As I read the article summarizing the survey’s findings, my heart rate went through the roof, I tripped while scrambling around for stronger reading glasses, knocked over a cup of coffee and…  All in all, not a great harbinger for a new week in a new year. […]

When Opportunity Knocks, Will You Know?

This week, Altman Weil released its fifth annual Law Firms in Transition Survey, which raises some serious issues about how law firms are responding to changes in the client marketplace. Survey respondents – a sizable bunch, 238 firms with 34% coming from the Am Law 200 – were in agreement that pricing competition is here […]